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Practical RDF
By Shelley Powers
Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: July 2003
ISBN	: 0-596-00263-7
Pages	: 350

		Copyright
		Preface
			Audience
			Structure of This Book
			Conventions Used in This Book
			How to Contact Us
			Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1.  RDF: An Introduction
			Section 1.1.  The Semantic Web and RDF: A Brief History
			Section 1.2.  The Specifications
			Section 1.3.  When to Use and Not Use RDF
			Section 1.4.  Some Uses of RDF/XML
			Section 1.5.  Related Technologies
			Section 1.6.  Going Forward
		Chapter 2.  RDF: Heart and Soul
			Section 2.1.  The Search for Knowledge
			Section 2.2.  The RDF Triple
			Section 2.3.  The Basic RDF Data Model and the RDF Graph
			Section 2.4.  URIs
			Section 2.5.  RDF Serialization: N3 and N-Triples
			Section 2.6.  Talking RDF: Lingo and Vocabulary
		Chapter 3.  The Basic Elements Within the RDF/XML Syntax
			Section 3.1.  Serializing RDF to XML
			Section 3.2.  RDF Blank Nodes
			Section 3.3.  URI References
			Section 3.4.  Representing Structured Data with rdf:value
			Section 3.5.  The rdf:type Property
			Section 3.6.  RDF/XML Shortcuts
			Section 3.7.  More on RDF Data Types
			Section 3.8.  RDF/XML: Separate Documents or Embedded Blocks
		Chapter 4.  Specialized RDF Relationships: Reification, Containers, and Collections
			Section 4.1.  Containers
			Section 4.2.  Collections
			Section 4.3.  Reification: The RDF Big Ugly
		Chapter 5.  Important Concepts from the W3C RDF Vocabulary/Schema
			Section 5.1.  RDF Vocabulary: Describing the Data
			Section 5.2.  Core RDF Schema Elements
			Section 5.3.  Refining RDF Vocabularies with Constraints
			Section 5.4.  RDF Schema Alternatives
		Chapter 6.  Creating an RDF Vocabulary
			Section 6.1.  How RDF Vocabularies Differ from XML Vocabularies
			Section 6.2.  Defining the Vocabulary: Business and Scope
			Section 6.3.  Defining the Vocabulary: Elements
			Section 6.4.  Formalizing the Vocabulary with RDFS
			Section 6.5.  Integrating the Dublin Core
		Chapter 7.  Editing, Parsing, and Browsing RDF/XML
			Section 7.1.  BrownSauce
			Section 7.2.  Parsers
			Section 7.3.  Editors
		Chapter 8.  Jena: RDF in Java
			Section 8.1.  Overview of the Classes
			Section 8.2.  Creating and Serializing an RDF Model
			Section 8.3.  Parsing and Querying an RDF Document
			Section 8.4.  In-Memory Versus Persistent Model Storage
		Chapter 9.  RDF and Perl, PHP, and Python
			Section 9.1.  RDF/XML and Perl
			Section 9.2.  RDF API for PHP
			Section 9.3.  RDF and Python: RDFLib
		Chapter 10.  Querying RDF: RDF as Data
			Section 10.1.  RDF and the Relational Data Model
			Section 10.2.  Roots: rdfDB QL
			Section 10.3.  Inkling and SquishQL
			Section 10.4.  RDQL
			Section 10.5.  Sesame
		Chapter 11.  A Brief Look at Additional RDF Application Environments
			Section 11.1.  RDF and C#
			Section 11.2.  Wilbur — RDF API CLOS
			Section 11.3.  Overview of Redland—a Multilanguage-Based RDF Framework
			Section 11.4.  Redfoot
		Chapter 12.  Ontologies: RDF Business Models
			Section 12.1.  Why Ontology?
			Section 12.2.  Brief History of the Ontology Movement
			Section 12.3.  OWL Use Cases and Requirements
			Section 12.4.  OWL Specifications
			Section 12.5.  Basic Constructs of OWL
			Section 12.6.  Bits of Knowledge: More Complex OWL Constructs
			Section 12.7.  The Complementary Nature of RDF and OWL
			Section 12.8.  Ontology Tools: Editors
		Chapter 13.  Subscription and Aggregation with RSS
			Section 13.1.  RSS: Quick History
			Section 13.2.  RSS 1.0: A Quick Introduction
			Section 13.3.  A Detailed Look at the Specification
			Section 13.4.  Extending the Specification Through Modules
			Section 13.5.  The RSS Modules
			Section 13.6.  RSS Aggregators
			Section 13.7.  Creating Your Own RSS Content
			Section 13.8.  Build Your Own RSS Consumer
			Section 13.9.  Merging RDF/RSS Files
		Chapter 14.  A World of Uses: Noncommercial Applications Based on RDF
			Section 14.1.  Mozilla
			Section 14.2.  Creative Commons License
			Section 14.3.  MIT's DSpace System Documentation
			Section 14.4.  FOAF: Friend-of-a-Friend
		Chapter 15.  A World of Uses: Commercial Uses of RDF/XML
			Section 15.1.  Chandler: RDF Within an Open Source PIM
			Section 15.2.  RDF Gateway, a Commercial RDF Database
			Section 15.3.  Siderean Software's Seamark
			Section 15.4.  Plugged In Software's Tucana Knowledge Store
			Section 15.5.  RDF and Adobe: XMP
			Section 15.6.  What's It All Mean?
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