Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals

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 concept and definition of ontology 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; and
  
• the future of ontologies and the role of the information professional in their development and use.