Ontologies are of increasing importance for bringing order in the web environment – especially in attempts aimed at improving information retrieval. Semantic-enabled Advancements on the Web introduces web designers and developers to three components important in the use of web technology: (1) the development of domain and conceptual models for ontologies; (2) semantic annotation of content; and (3) issues of analysis and reasoning such as dealing with large graphs in finding patterns, paths and sub-graphs. The content is also applicable to researchers in the field, and the lists of references can stimulate further reading.
The content of the work is presented in three sections dealing, respectively, with the development of ontologies and ontology-based services; annotation, mappings and related tools; and semantic applications. The first of these sections includes three chapters dealing with the building of a chemical ontology for the Semantic Web, a pattern-based method for re-engineering non-ontological resources into ontologies, and an ontology-based cross-application context modelling and management service. The second section presents four chapters dealing, respectively, with extending file systems with semantic annotations, using controlled language for semantic annotations, a tool suite to enable web designers and application developers to handle semantic data, and an adaptive hybrid selection of SAWSDL services. The final section has five chapters. These cover enhancing folksonomy-based content retrieval with Semantic Web technology, semantic search on unstructured data, ontology enhanced user interfaces, integrating interactive TV series and the web through semantics, and music retrieval and a recommendation scheme based on varying mood schemes. An international team of contributors from the US, the UK, Germany, Austria, Spain, Thailand, Greece and South Korea have contributed to the content.
Semantic-enabled Advancements on the Web offers a good overview of issues to consider in speeding up ontology development issues. It draws on various fields and even non-ontological resources. This work is recommended to web developers and designers, researchers in the field, postgraduate students exploring research topics, and faculty looking for recommended reading that is well-written and in a style accessible to students.
