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