Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals

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.

David Stuart is an independent information professional and an honorary research fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, and was previously a research fellow at King's College London and the University of Wolverhampton. He regularly publishes in peer-reviewed academic journals and professional journals on information science, metrics, and semantic web technologies, and in 2015 began writing a regular column for the journal Online Information Review called 'Taming Metrics'. He has previously published Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals (Facet Publishing, 2014) and Facilitating Access to the Web of Data (Facet Publishing, 2011).