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Books about the Semantic Web
A Semantic Web Primer A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems)
by Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen
An excellent introduction to the Semantic Web, RDF Schema and OWL.
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL
by Dean Allemang, James Hendler
Spinning the Semantic Web Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential
by Dieter Fensel, Wolfgang Wahlster, Henry Lieberman, James Hendler
Gives a nice overview of the various aspects of the Semantic Web, where it came from and the state-of-the-art.
Towards the Semantic Web Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management
by John Davies, Dieter Fensel, Frank van Harmelen
The experiences and results of 4 years of Semantic Web-related research in the On-To-Knowledge project (the cradle of Sesame) condensed in one book.
Practical RDF Practical RDF
by Shelley Powers
Gives a quick introduction in RDF and then focuses on various types of tools: editors, repositories, query engines, etc.
Visualizing the Semantic Web Visualizing the Semantic Web
by Vladimir Geroimenko, Chaomei Chen
A good read for those interested in Semantic Web-related visualization techniques.
Papers and articles about the Semantic Web
  • Tracking Events Using a Semi-Structured Repository
    Tracking the activities of a system and its users is too often not considered until the application is already deployed. Learn how to demonstrate an (almost) no hassle persistent bean pool that you can use to track the activities of an already developed system for later review.
  • Employ Metadata to Enhance Search Filters
    Discover how to use metadata for pooling information already resident in an application to create a flexible search interface that reduces complexity and increases users' productivity.
  • Towards Ontology-driven Discourse: From Semantic Graphs to Multimedia Presentations (PDF, 239 KB)
    Paper on the generation of multimedia presentations from semantic data using SeRQL and XSLT.
    by Joost Geurts, Stefano Bocconi, Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Lynda Hardman (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica).
  • Querying the RDF: Small Case Study in the Bicycle Sale Domain (PDF, 150 KB)
    Study on the suitability of using Sesame as the backend to a prospective domain-specific web search tool
    by Ondřej Šváb, Vojtěch Svátek, Martin Kavalec and Martin Labský (University of Economics, Prague).
  • A Metadata Model for Semantics-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems (PDF, 650 KB)
    Overview paper on the Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer (SWAP) project in which Sesame is extensively used
    by Marc Ehrig, Peter Haase, Steffen Staab, Christoph Tempich (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe), Jeen Broekstra, Arjohn Kampman (Aduna), Frank van Harmelen, Marta Sabou, Ronny Siebes and Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Vrij University Amsterdam).
  • What's wrong with RQL? (PowerPoint, 57 KB)
    Presentation on the differences between SeRQL and RQL
    by Flavius Frasincar (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven).
  • MUSE - Search Engine (Word, 3531 KB)
    Description of MUSE, a semantic search engine that uses Sesame and RQL
    by Kan Liu (University of Georgia).
  • The Drug Ontology Project for Elsevier (PDF, 310 KB)
    A description of an RDF architecture enabling thesaurus-driven data integration using Sesame and SeRQL
    by J. Broekstra, C. Fluit, A. Kampman (Aduna); F. van Harmelen, H. Stuckenschmidt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); R. Bhogal, A. Scerri, A. de Waard (Elsevier); E. van Mulligen (Collexis).
  • INWISS - Integrative Enterprise Knowledge Portal (PDF, 1401 KB).
    Description of a knowledge portal that uses RDF and Sesame to communicate user context among independent search portlets.