Practical RDF (Paperback)

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a structure for describing and interchanging metadata on the Web--anything from library catalogs and worldwide directories to bioinformatics, Mozilla internal data structures, and knowledge bases for artificial intelligence projects. RDF provides a consistent framework and syntax for describing and querying data, making it possible to share website descriptions more easily. RDF's capabilities, however, have long been shrouded by its reputation for complexity and a difficult family of specifications. Practical RDF breaks through this reputation with immediate and solvable problems to help you understand, master, and implement RDF solutions.

Practical RDF explains RDF from the ground up, providing real-world examples and descriptions of how the technology is being used in applications like Mozilla, FOAF, and Chandler, as well as infrastructure you can use to build your own applications. This book cuts to the heart of the W3C's often obscure specifications, giving you tools to apply RDF successfully in your own projects.

The first part of the book focuses on the RDF specifications. After an introduction to RDF, the book covers the RDF specification documents themselves, including RDF Semantics and Concepts and Abstract Model specifications, RDF constructs, and the RDF Schema. The second section focuses on programming language support, and the tools and utilities that allow developers to review, edit, parse, store, and manipulate RDF/XML. Subsequent sections focus on RDF's data roots, programming and framework support, and practical implementation and use of RDF and RDF/XML.

If you want to know how to apply RDF to information processing, Practical RDF is for you. Whether your interests lie in large-scale information aggregation and analysis or in smaller-scale projects like weblog syndication, this book will provide you with a solid foundation for working with RDF.

Table of Contents

Preface 

1. RDF: An Introduction
2. RDF: Heart and Soul
3. The Basic Elements Within the RDF/XML Syntax
4. Specialized RDF Relationships: Reification, Containers, and Collections
5. Important Concepts from the W3C RDF Vocabulary/Schema
6. Creating an RDF Vocabulary
7. Editing, Parsing, and Browsing RDF/XML
8. Jena: RDF in Java
9. RDF and Perl, PHP, and Python
10. Querying RDF: RDF as Data
11. A Brief Look at Additional RDF Application Environments
12. Ontologies: RDF Business Models
13. Subscription and Aggregation with RSS
14. A World of Uses: Noncommercial Applications Based on RDF
15. A World of Uses: Commercial Uses of RDF/XML
Index 

RDF（Resource Description Framework）是一種用於描述和交換網絡上的元數據的結構，可以用於圖書館目錄、全球目錄、生物信息學、Mozilla內部數據結構和人工智能項目的知識庫等。RDF提供了一個一致的框架和語法來描述和查詢數據，使得共享網站描述更加容易。然而，RDF的能力長期以來一直被其複雜性和一系列困難的規範所掩蓋。《實用RDF》通過解決實際且可解決的問題，幫助您理解、掌握和實施RDF解決方案，從而打破了這種聲譽。

《實用RDF》從基礎開始解釋RDF，提供了現實世界的例子和描述，介紹了RDF在Mozilla、FOAF和Chandler等應用中的使用，以及您可以用來構建自己應用的基礎設施。本書深入探討了W3C的規範，為您在自己的項目中成功應用RDF提供了工具。

本書的第一部分聚焦於RDF規範。在介紹RDF之後，本書涵蓋了RDF規範文件本身，包括RDF語義和概念、抽象模型規範、RDF結構和RDF Schema。第二部分聚焦於編程語言支持以及允許開發人員審查、編輯、解析、存儲和操作RDF/XML的工具和實用程序。隨後的部分聚焦於RDF的數據根源、編程和框架支持，以及RDF和RDF/XML的實際實施和使用。

如果您想了解如何將RDF應用於信息處理，那麼《實用RDF》就是為您而寫的。無論您的興趣是大規模信息聚合和分析，還是像網誌聯合等小規模項目，本書都將為您提供與RDF一起工作的堅實基礎。

目錄：

前言

1. RDF：介紹
2. RDF：核心和精髓
3. RDF/XML語法中的基本元素
4. 專用的RDF關係：再現、容器和集合
5. W3C RDF詞彙/模式中的重要概念
6. 創建RDF詞彙
7. 編輯、解析和瀏覽RDF/XML
8. Jena：Java中的RDF
9. RDF和Perl、PHP和Python
10. 查詢RDF：RDF作為數據
11. 簡要介紹其他RDF應用環境
12. 語義學：RDF商業模型
13. 使用RSS進行訂閱和聚合
14. 無商業用途的RDF應用
15. RDF/XML的商業用途
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