Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals (Paperback)

David Stuart

ISBN 10: 1783300620 / ISBN 13: 9781783300624

Editore: Facet Publishing, London, 2016

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Paperback. Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction and exploration of ontologies and demonstrates their value to information professionals. More data and information is being created than ever before. Ontologies, formal representations of knowledge with rich semantic relationships, have become increasingly important in the context of today's information overload and data deluge. The publishing and sharing of explicit explanations for a wide variety of conceptualizations, in a machine readable format, has the power to both improve information retrieval and discover new knowledge. Information professionals are key contributors to the development of new, and increasingly useful, ontologies. Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction to the following: defining the concept of ontologies and why they are increasingly important to information professionals ontologies and the semantic web existing ontologies, such as RDF, RDFS, SKOS, and OWL2 adopting and building ontologies, showing how to avoid repetition of work and how to build a simple ontology interrogating ontologies for reuse the future of ontologies and the role of the information professional in their development and use. This book will be useful reading for information professionals in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions who work with digitalization projects, cataloguing and classification and information retrieval. It will also be useful to LIS students who are new to the field. Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an introduction to ontologies and their development, an essential tool for fighting back against information overload. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals (Paperback)
• Editore: Facet Publishing, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1783300620
• ISBN 13: 9781783300624
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an introduction to ontologies and their development, an essential tool for fighting back against information overload.The development of robust and widely used ontologies is an increasingly important tool in the fight against information overload. The publishing and sharing of explicit explanations for a wide variety of conceptualizations, in a machine readable format, has the power to both improve information retrieval and identify new knowledge.This new book provides an accessible introduction to the following: What is an ontology? Defining the concept and why it is increasingly important to the information professional. Ontologies and the semantic web Existing ontologies, such as SKOS, OWL, FOAF, schema.org, and the DBpedia Ontology Adopting and building ontologies, showing how to avoid repetition of work and how to build a simple ontology with Protégé Interrogating semantic web ontologies The future of ontologies and the role of the information professional in their development and use.

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David Stuart