Bob DuCharme’s Weblog

I recently finished Dean Allemang and Jim Hendler’s book Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, and I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in OWL, RDF, or the Semantic Web.

I’m surprised that their publishers even agreed to the title; there may be some people who look at the book’s title and say “Hey, I’m a working ontologist, so I need that book!”, but I think that it would benefit a much wider audience: not just people who consider themselves working ontologists, but anyone who needs to work with standards-based ontologies or with people who do.

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