Visualizing the Semantic Web

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Semantic, Visual, and Technological Facets of the Second-Generation Web

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Concept and Architecture of the Semantic Web

      • Vladimir Geroimenko

      Pages 3-18

   3. Information Visualization and the Semantic Web

      • Lawrence Reeve, Hyoil Han, Chaomei Chen

      Pages 19-44

   4. Ontology-Based Information Visualization: Toward Semantic Web Applications

      • Christiaan Fluit, Marta Sabou, Frank van Harmelen

      Pages 45-58

   5. Topic Maps, RDF Graphs, and Ontologies Visualization

      • Bénédicte Le Grand, Michel Soto

      Pages 59-79

   6. Web Services: Description, Interfaces, and Ontology

      • Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers

      Pages 80-101

   7. Recommender Systems for the Web

      • J. Ben Schafer, Joseph A. Konstan, John T. Riedl

      Pages 102-123

   8. SVG and X3D: New XML Technologies for 2D and 3D Visualization

      • Vladimir Geroimenko, Larissa Geroimenko

      Pages 124-133

3. Visual Techniques and Applications for the Semantic Web

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Using Graphically Represented Ontologies for Searching Content on the Semantic Web

      • Leendert W. M. Wienhofen

      Pages 137-153

   3. Adapting Graph Visualization Techniques for the Visualization of RDF Data

      • Flavius Frasincar, Alexandru Telea, Geert-Jan Houben

      Pages 154-171

   4. Spring-Embedded Graphs for Semantic Visualization

      • Jennifer Golbeck, Paul Mutton

      Pages 172-182

   5. Semantic Association Networks: Using Semantic Web Technology to Improve Scholarly Knowledge and Expertise Management

      • Katy Börner

      Pages 183-198

   6. Interactive Interfaces for Mapping E-Commerce Ontologies

      • Vladimir Geroimenko, Larissa Geroimenko

      Pages 199-209

   7. Back Pain Data Collection Using Scalable Vector Graphics and Geographical Information Systems

      • Gheorghita Ghinea, Tacha Serif, David Gill, Andrew O. Frank

      Pages 210-228

   8. Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and Challenges for Visualizing FOAF

      • John C. Paolillo, Elijah Wright

      Pages 229-241

   9. Concluding Remarks: Today’s Vision of Envisioning the Semantic Future

      • Vladimir Geroimenko, Chaomei Chen

      Pages 243-244

4. Back Matter

   Pages 245-248

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The Semantic Web is a vision that has sparked a wide-ranging enthusiasm for a new generation of the Web. The Semantic Web is happening. The central idea of that vision is to make the Web more understandable to computer programs so that people can make more use of this gigantic asset. The use of metadata (data about data) can clearly indicate the meaning of data on the Web so as to provide computers enough information to handle such data. On the future Web, many additional layers will be required if we want computer programs to handle the semantics (the meaning of data) properly without human - tervention. Such layers should deal with the hierarchical relationships between me- ings, their similarities and differences, logical rules for making new inferences from the existing data and metadata, and so on. Dozens of new technologies have emerged recently to implement these ideas. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) forms the foundation of the future Web, RDF (Resource Description Framework), OWL (Web Ontology Language) and many other technologies help to erect a “multistory” bui- ing of the Semantic Web layer by layer by adding new features and new types of metadata. According to Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the current Web and the Semantic Web, it may take up to ten years to complete the building. The new Web will be much more complex than the current one and will contain enormous amounts of metadata as well as data.

• E-Commerce
• HTML
• Internet
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• SVG
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• XML
• information visualization
• multimedia
• recommender system
• semantic web
• techniques
• visualization
• web development
• web services

From the reviews of the second edition:

"Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the basis of the semantic Web’s metadata. … The production quality of the book is quite high, featuring high-gloss paper and containing numerous intriguing color screen shots of visualization outputs … . the book does a good job of providing an understanding of the semantic web, presenting its vision and an overview of research into its visualization." (A. E. Salwin, Computing Reviews, December, 2006)

• School of Computing, Communication & Electronics, University of Plymouth, UK

  Vladimir Geroimenko

• College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

  Chaomei Chen

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