Applying Semantic Web Technology to Earth Sciences

How do I get started with semantic technologies

• Read: Semantic Web for Dummies
• Read: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist (see Books below)
• Attend a conference such as Semantic Technologies or the Semantic Web tracks at the WWW conference
• Attend tutorials at conferences related to semantic web
• Collaborate or partner with people/ groups actually building working semantic web applications

Semantic Web Vision

• Linked Data. Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web. TED Talks.

Semantic Web Primer

• Semantic Web Primer.
• What in an ontology? - A briefing on the range of semantic models. Leo Obrst.

Semantic Web Tutorials

• ESIP Federation, Semantic Web Tutorials. Peter Fox.

Books

• Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL. Dean Allemang and James Hendler.

Semantic Web Services

• An OWL-S Editor Tutorial (pdf). Shahin Saadati and Grit Denker.
• Describing Web Services using OWL-S and WSDL. David Martin, Mark Burstein, Ora Lassila, Massimo Paolucci, Terry Payne, and Sheila McIlraith.
• Bringing Semantics to Web Services with OWL-S. David Martin, Mark Burstein, Drew McDermott, Deborah McGuinness, Sheila McIlraith, Massimo Paolucci, Evren Sirin, Naveen Srinivasan, and Katia Sycara.
  • Also Stanford KSL Technical Report KSL-06-21.
• Semantic Annotation of the Web Services Description Language. W3C.
• Semantic Web Services Language. W3C.
• Web Services Modeling Language. ESSI WSML working group.

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Semantic Web Overview

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