Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals

By: David Stuart

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Paperback | 19 January 2016 | Edition Number 1

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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 concepts, 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.

Readership:

This book will be essential reading for information professionals in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions who work with digitization projects, cataloguing and classification and information retrieval. It will also be useful to LIS students who are new to the field.

Industry Reviews

" ... an impressive and comprehensive study. Of special note are the chapters on 'Ontologies and Information Professions'; 'Alternative Semantic Visions'; and 'Ontological Documentation'. Impressively well written, organized, and presented, "Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals" will prove to be an enduringly valued and appreciated addition to professional, community, and academic library Information Science reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists."

-- Michael J. Carson * Midwest Book Review, Reviewer's Bookwatch *

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals offers insight into the evolution of classification of digital data and knowledge. This book will be useful to archivists, domain experts, LIS students, and library and information professionals.Recommended.

* ARBA *

As a relative novice, I was still able to come away from this book with a good idea of how exactly the linked data models are made manifest. I would recommend this book for experienced information professionals interested in concrete examples of an often nebulous subject.

-- Eric Brownell * Technical Services Quarterly *

The generous provision of definitions, insights on the development of contemporary tools, and identification of theoretical concerns provide a sound introduction ... This guide has potential as an textbook for those focusing on library information systems careers.

-- Betty J. Glass * Library Journal *

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