Re: RDF book?

If you want a textbook for a class, I'd recommend Aidan Hogan's The Web of
Data.

If you want a textbook for practitioners, I'd recommend Allemang, Hendler,
Gandon's Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist.

Ideally, you should have both.

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On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 6:20 AM Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

> Everyone has a favorite, and tastes differ a lot
>
> Let me just cite two (but there are more, and my apologies if I do not
> provide an exhaustive list):
>
> - Semantic Web Primer by Grigoris Antoniou et al. (look for the most
> recent, I believe 3rd edition), MIT Press
> - The Web of Data, by Aidan Hogan, Springer
>
> There are also books that concentrate on very specific issues, ie,
> ontology and reasoning, but that goes way beyond the scope of Power's book,
> so the comparison may not be o.k.
>
> Ivan
>
> On 4 Dec 2020, at 15:55, Chris Wood <c.c.wood@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering if there was a more up-to-date version of something
> like Shelley Power's Practical RDF - this *is* a really good book but now
> has quite a lot of content on technologies and software that haven't
> evolved (and some terminology seems to have changed in the last few years
> too). I'd ideally like a book I can recommend to students but doesn't
> contain too much historical discussion that isn't relevant anymore that
> might confuse them.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
>
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