Semantic Grid Primer

We are in the process of producing a primer (document and Web Site) to help Grid developers find out about and make use of Semantic Web technologies. As part of this exercise, this web page is a collection of links to useful resources for the primer audience.

Please contact Carole Goble for more information about the primer and to find out how you can help.

We'd like to know your answers to these three questions:

1. What do you want to see in the primer?
2. What resources have you found useful (e.g. papers, web sites) that would be a useful addition to this page?
3. What resources have you created that you would be willing to share with the community?

Please also mail suggestions, URLs, references and contributions to David De Roure for inclusion on this Web page.

We also welcome feedback on the pointers that are here.

Thank you

Contributions

Geoffrey Fox has contributed these resources which include a useful introductory talk on Metadata and the Semantic Web by Marlon Pierce, Community Grids Lab, Indiana University.

Recommendations

• The Semantic Web, Scientific American May 2001. This is now a classic Semantic Web reference.
• The March/April 2001 "Semantic Web" issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems (guest editors Dieter Fensel and Mark Musen) provides an excellent introduction to relevant aspects of the Semantic Web. This is currently available as a free trial (6Mb Zip file) from the Intelligent Systems home page. Jim Hendler's "Agents and the Semantic Web" article in this issue (preprint) discusses Semantic Web and Web Services, with more technical detail than the Scientific American article.
• Aaron Schwart'z excellent The Semantic Web In Breadth and The Semantic Web (for Web Developers) documents.
• The Semantic Web Community Portal provides a comprehensive Semantic Web resource in much the same spirit as the Semantic Grid community portal.
• Dave Beckett's RDF Resource Guide provides an extensive list of RDF resources.
• ERCIM News Special on Semantic Web provides a collection of articles about (European) Semantic Web activities, with a lead article by Tim Berners-Lee and Eric Miller.
• James Hendler's article in Science (January 2003) about Science and The Semantic Web has an associated Science and the Semantic Web Web page at the University of Maryland.
• Listen to audio (12Mb 32kbps MP3s) of Tim Berners Lee's (slide-free) keynote on Future Web at Software Development Expo 2001. He discusses the relationship between Web Services and Semantic Web.
• The book Spinning the Semantic Web by D. Fensel, J. Hendler, H. Liebermann, and W. Wahlster (eds.), MIT Press, 2002. Published end of January 2003.
• The Semantic Web and Grid Computing paper by Carole Goble and David De Roure is aimed at a audience with little familiarity with the Grid but contains a rich set of examples of the use of Semantic Web technologies in grid applications.
• Tim Berners-Lee's Sloan School of Management Semantic Web lecture slides are particularly good!

NB These GGF Semantic Grid RG pages are part of the Semantic Grid Web Site, which contains a document store, news of events and links.

W3C Semantic Web pages

• Semantic Web Home Page http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ (in particular read the Activity Statement)
• Semantic Web Advanced Development Home Page http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) Home Page http://www.w3.org/rdf/
• Semantic Web RDF Interest Group http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest

Web page maintained by David De Roure, dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Last updated 14 September 2003.