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Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web Review by akempo
A mixed bag...
This book is a bit of a mixed bag for me. The book's organization, content, and layout were well thought out. There are excellent high
level explanations of RDF, OWL, and other Semantic Web concepts. This is all well and good, but it fails with respect to one major point:
what exactly am I supposed to be exploring? The Semantic Web as described in the book sounds great... but there are more technologies
required to make it work than those described in this book. The most telling thing in this book is the fact that most of the technologies
are already available, smoe in limited form, some better defined, and yet, the author has difficulty coming up with practical applications
for almost any of it, outside of the passing mention of RSS, and an appendix detailing Friend of a Friend (FOAF).
Bottom line: if you're looking for a good, high level explanation of the various technologies, this a very good book to read. If you're
looking for something that can provide you with a springboard to develop ideas for the Semantic Web, this is definitely not the book for you.