Everything about Semantic Web

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Semantic WebA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Knowledge-based semantic web technologies in the AEC sectorInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Foundations of Semantic Web technologiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Semantic WebCited 8,734 times
5. Go sideways: Web Ontology LanguageA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Semantic Web StackA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Semantic Web

  Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila · 2001 · Scientific American · 8,734 citations

• Semantic Web services

  S.A. McIlraith, T.C. Son, Honglei Zeng · 2001 · IEEE Intelligent Systems · 1,092 citations

• The Semantic Web Revisited

  N. Shadbolt, T. Berners-Lee, W. Hall · 2006 · IEEE Intelligent Systems · 1,091 citations

• Semantic Sensor Web

  Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, Satya S. Sahoo · 2008 · IEEE Internet Computing · 463 citations

• Composing Web services on the Semantic Web

  Brahim Medjahed, Athman Bouguettaya, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid · 2003 · The VLDB Journal The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases · 405 citations

• Semantic Web Mining

  Gerd Stumme, Andreas Hotho, Bettina Berendt · 2006 · Journal of Web Semantics · 151 citations

• Autonomous semantic web services

  M. Paolucci, K. Sycara · 2003 · IEEE Internet Computing · 109 citations

• A reasonable Semantic Web

  Pascal Hitzler, Frank van Harmelen · 2010 · Semantic Web · 43 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Knowledge-based semantic web technologies in the AEC sector

  Xiao-han Shen, Samad M.E. Sepasgozar, Michael J. Ostwald · 2024 · Automation in Construction · 29 citations

• The Intersection Between Semantic Web and Materials Science

  Andre Valdestilhas, Bernd Bayerlein, Benjamin Moreno Torres · 2023 · Advanced Intelligent Systems · 22 citations

• A semantic web technology index

  Gongjin Lan, Ting Liu, Xu Wang · 2022 · Scientific Reports · 20 citations

• Semantic web and machine learning techniques addressing semantic interoperability in Industry 4.0

  Mohamed Madani Hafidi, Meriem Djezzar, Mounir Hemam · 2023 · International Journal of Web Information Systems · 18 citations

• A Semantic Web Approach to Fault Tolerant Autonomous Manufacturing

  Fadi El Kalach, Ruwan Wickramarachchi, Ramy Harik · 2023 · IEEE Intelligent Systems · 8 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Foundations of Semantic Web technologiesPascal Hitzler · 2009
• Knitting the Semantic WebJane Greenberg · 2007
• The Filter BubbleEli Pariser · 2011
• The Semantic WebAldo Gangemi, Roberto Navigli · 2017
• Intelligent technologies for web applicationsPriti Srinivas Sajja · 2012
• 📕SMAP 2007International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaption and Personalization (2nd 2007 London, England) · 2007
• The Semantic WebBo Leuf · 2005
• Semantic Web ProgrammingJohn Hebeler · 2009

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🔗 Related topics

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• Semantic technology The ultimate goal of semantic technology is to help machines understand data. Well-known technologies that enable the encoding of semantics in data include…
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• RDFa RDFa or Resource Description Framework in Attributes is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to HTML, XHTML and various XML-based…
• RDF Schema RDF Schema (Resource Description Framework Schema, variously abbreviated as RDFS, RDF(S), RDF-S, or RDF/S) is a set of classes with certain properties…
• Resource Description Framework The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a method to describe and exchange graph data. It was originally designed as a data model for metadata by the…
• RDF query language An RDF query language is a computer language, specifically a query language for databases, able to retrieve and manipulate data stored in Resource Description…