TY - BOOK ID - 56711514 TI - Foundations for the Web of Information and Services : A Review of 20 Years of Semantic Web Research AU - Fensel, Dieter AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2011 SN - 9783642197970 PB - Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg DB - UniCat KW - Office management KW - Information systems KW - Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics KW - Computer. Automation KW - ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) KW - IR (information retrieval) KW - bedrijfseconomie KW - informatica KW - bedrijfsadministratie KW - informatiesystemen KW - KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) KW - informatica management KW - robots UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:56711514 AB - In the mid 1990s, Tim Berners-Lee had the idea of developing the World Wide Web into a Semantic Web, a web of information that could be interpreted by machines in order to allow the automatic exploitation of data, which until then had to be done by humans manually. One of the first people to research topics related to the Semantic Web was Professor Rudi Studer. From the beginning, Rudi drove projects like ONTOBROKER and On-to-Knowledge, which later resulted in W3C standards such as RDF and OWL. By the late 1990s, Rudi had established a research group at the University of Karlsruhe, which later became the nucleus and breeding ground for Semantic Web research, and many of today's well-known research groups were either founded by his disciples or benefited from close cooperation with this think tank. In this book, published in celebration of Rudi's 60th birthday, many of his colleagues look back on the main research results achieved during the last 20 years. Under the editorship of Dieter Fensel, once one of Rudi's early PhD students, an impressive list of contributors and contributions has been collected, covering areas like Knowledge Management, Ontology Engineering, Service Management, and Semantic Search. Overall, this book provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in Semantic Web research, by combining historical roots with the latest results, which may finally make the dream of a Web of knowledge, software and services come true. ER -