Semantic Web for Libraries

If a chapter is labelled "minimal" then there isn't much content there now, but may be later.

Contents

Introduction

See below

1. Introduction (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • Introduction
2. HTML (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • Introduction
   • What is a user agent?
   • High level document structure
   • Hyperlinks
   • What the Web isn't
   • What the Semantic Web might be
   • Modern Web pages
   • Conclusion
3. URIs (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • First there were URLs...
   • Then there were URNs
   • And now there are URIs
   • Who decides what?
   • Conclusion
4. HTTP (last modified v0.1)
   • HTTP
   • Resources and Representations
   • Content Negotiation
5. Dublin Core (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • Dublin Core
   • Including Dublin Core in HTML
   • Viewing Dublin Core metadata
   • Values of attributes
   • A program to print Dublin Core attributes
   • URIs for Dublin Core
6. RDF (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • RDF triples
   • Identifying things by URIs
   • RDF triples
   • XML representation of RDF triples
   • Turtle representation of RDF triples
7. URIs for People (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • URIs and people
   • ISNIs
   • What does a URL mean?
   • LinkedIn and friends?
   • Shakespeare's URI
8. Friend of a Friend (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • FOAF
   • FOAF Core
   • Example
   • The knows predicate
   • Including FOAF links in HTML
9. Linked Data (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • Linked Data
10. Simple Knowledge Organisation System (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • SKOS
11. Mathematical Concepts (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Objects and Sets
    • Objects and predicates
    • Equivalence
    • Reflexive
    • Symmetric
    • Transitive
    • Propositional Logic
    • Predicate Logic
    • Conclusion
12. RDF Schemas (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • Classes and sets
    • Instances of a class
    • Properties
    • Type of
    • Subclass
    • Subclass entailment
    • Conclusion
13. RDA (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • RDA and FRBR
    • FBR and RDF
    • RDA Namespace
    • The Work property titleOfWork
Ontologies (last modified v0.1)

Introduction

Acknowledgements

I have used the following in these pages

• SHJS - Syntax Highlighting in JavaScript to highlight programs
• Generated tables of contents by Stuart Langridge
• A Generic Makefile for Building Multiple main() Targets in $PWD by Robert A Nader

Copyright © Jan Newmarch, jan@newmarch.name

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