After years of mostly theoretical research, Semantic Web Technologies are now reaching out into application areas like bioinformatics, eCommerce, eGovernment, or Social Webs. Applications like genomic ontologies, semantic web services, automated catalogue alignment, ontology matching, or blogs and social networks are constantly increasing, often driven or at least backed up by companies like Google, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. The need to leverage the potential of combining information in a meaningful way in order to be able to benefit from the Web will create further demand for and interest in Semantic Web research. This movement, based on the growing maturity of related research results, necessitates a reliable reference source from which beginners to the field can draw a first basic knowledge of the main underlying technologies as well as state-of-the-art application areas. This handbook, put together by three leading authorities in the field, and supported by an advisory board of highly reputed researchers, fulfils exactly this need. It is the first dedicated reference work in this field, collecting contributions about both the technical foundations of the Semantic Web as well as their main usage in other scientific fields like life sciences, engineering, business, or education.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Semantic Web Technologies by  Domingue, John;  Fensel, Dieter; Hendler, James A. Semantic Web Architecture by Harth, Andreas; Janik, Maciej; Staab, Steffen Semantic Annotations and Retrieval: Manual, Semi-automatic and Automatic Generation by Bontcheva, Kalina; Cunningham, Hamish Semantic Annotation and Retrieval: RDF by Gandon, Fabien; Han, Sung-kook; Krummenacher, Reto; Toma, Ioan Semantic Annotation and Retrieval: Web of hypertext: RDFa and Microformats by  Adida, Ben; Herman, Ivan; Birbeck, Mark Semantic Annotation and Retrieval: Web of Data by Heath, Tom; Bizer, Chris Storing the Semantic Web: Repositories by Kiryakov, Atanas;  Damova, Mariana Querying the Semantic Web: SPARQL by Della Valle, Emanuele; Ceri, Stefano Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the Semantic Web: OWL by Horrocks, Ian; Patel-Schneider, Peter F. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the Semantic Web: RIF by  Kifer, Michael Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the Semantic Web: Web-scale Reasoning by Kotoulas, Spyros;  van Harmelen, Frank Social Semantic Web by Breslin, John; Passant, Alexandre; Vrandecic, Denny Ontologies and the Semantic Web by Abecker, Andreas; Grimm, Stephan; Studer, Rudi; Völker, Johanna Future Trends by Nixon, Lyndon; Volz, Raphael; Ciravegna, Fabio;  Studer, Rudi Semantic Technology Adoption: A Business Perspective by Benjamins, Richard; Greaves, Mark; Radoff, Mark; Davis, Mike; Lockwood, Rose; Contreras, Jesus Semantic Web Search Engines by d'Aquin, Mathieu; Ding, Li;  Motta, Enrico eScience by Zhao, Jun; Goble, Carole; de Roure, Dave; Corcho, Oscar; Missier, Paolo; Belhajjame, Khalid; Newmann, David Knowledge Management in Large Organizations by Davies, John; Warren, Paul eBusiness  by Grün, Christoph; Werthner, Hannes; Huemer, Christian; Liegl, Philipp; Mayrhofer, Dieter; Schuster, Rainer; Zapletal, Marco; Motal, Thomas eGovernment by Shadbolt, Nigel; O'Hara, Kieron; Salvadores, Manuel; Alani, Harith Multimedia, Broadcasting and eCulture by Nixon, Lyndon; Troncy, Raphaël; Kompatsiaris, Yiannis; Dasiopoulou, Stamatia; Hyvönen, Euro; Evain, Jean-Pierre Semantic Web Services by Pedrinaci, Carlos; Sheth, Amit; Domingue, John Glossary; Index.