List of Semantic Web related books…

Based on the positive experience of moving the Semantic Web Tool lists on the wiki (quite a number of people have helped maintaining that page since it was published!) a similar page collecting books on the subject has been created. The result is on the ESW Wiki.

Of course there are some caveats; it would be great if the community helped in getting things right. Some of those are:

  • It is possible that some books that have been put into the the “textbooks” category are, in fact, collections of articles or proceedings, or vice versa…
  • for most of the books an ISBN number could be found and a link was put to the Worldcat library site which gives a way of mapping ISBN-s (thanks to DanC for this idea). However, some of the ISBN-s have no trace on that site for example most of the non-English books. It is not yet clear where to link those…
  • the main problem is of course the missing Italian, Chinese, Russian, Chinese, etc. books. Surely lots of non-English books missing!

Nevertheless, we hope this is a good and useful start

About Ivan Herman

Ivan Herman is the Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. He graduated as a mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.

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