Edu:Books

The list of books is structured along the line of a separation between handbooks and textbooks.

A textbook has some structure in it following some pedagogy of presenting the material, and at least has a set of exercises.

We deemed handbooks those that either say 'handbook', are collections of papers, and have no exercises.

Textbooks

Textbooks are organised by topic of interest, not so much for intended audience (graduate student, undergrad, etc). Listed in alphabetical order.

Computer Science

• Hitzler, P., Kroetzsch, M. and Rudolph, S. Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009.
  • For the computer scientist using ontologies, less so for the ontology developers to develop ontologies
• Keet, CM. An Introduction to Ontology Engineering, 2018.
  • A comprehensive textbook, with exercises. Mainly for computer scientists, but also for ontology developers.
• Pease, A. Ontology: a practical guide, 2011.
  • A comprehensive textbook for computer scientists, database developers, linguists and other professionals and students looking to add rigor to their computational systems. With lots of SUMO
• Robinson, P.N., and Bauer, S. Introduction to Bio-Ontologies. Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology, 2011.
  • Textbook aimed at bio-ontologies, but also including computing aspects (logic, algorithms)

Logic and reasoning

• Brachman, R. and Levesque, H. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Morgan Kaufmann, 2004.
• Hedman, S. A First Course in Logic: An Introduction to Model Theory, Proof Theory, Computability, and Complexity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Good textbook on logic.

Philosophy

• Arp, R. Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology. MIT Press, 2015.
  • The material is pedagogically presented but does not contain exercises. The Introductory chapters are good for ontology in general. Subsequent chapters are good for understanding BFO in particular.
• Coffey, P. Ontology or the Theory of Being. 2013.
  • For philosophers.
• Effingham, N. An Introduction to Ontology. Polity/Wiley; 1 edition, 2013.
  • For philosophers.

Semantic Web

• Allemang, D. and Hendler, J. (2008). Semantic web for the working ontologist--effective modeling in RDFS and OWL. Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition, 2008.
• Antoniou, G., Groth, P., van Harmelen, F., and Hoekstra, R. A Semantic Web Primer . MIT Press. 3rd. ed., 2012.
  • Goes up the layer cake

Note: there are several books on programming the semantic web and a developers guide to semantic web, but that was assumed out of scope (for now at least in the first search).

Handbooks

Most handbooks listed here have a few informal notes added to them, which are yet to be updated (ideally with a real book review).

General handbooks

On Ontologies

• Abbas, J. Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schema. Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.; 1 edition, 2010.
  • for library information science professionals
• van Harmelen, F., Lifschitz, V., and Porter, B. (Eds.). Handbook of Knowledge Representation. Elsevier, 2008. pdf
• Jakus, G., Milutinovic, V., Omerovic, S., and Tomazic, S. Concepts, Ontologies, and Knowledge Representation. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, 2013.
• Munn, K. and Smith, B. (eds.). Applied Ontology: An Introduction. Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos, 2008. pdf
• Sicilia, M-A. (ed.). Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies. WorldScientific, 2014.
  • It seems to be the more practical aspects of domain ontologies and use cases only.
• Suárez-Figueroa, M.C., Gómez-Pérez, A., Motta, E., Gangemi, A. (Eds.) Ontology Engineering in a Networked World. Springer, 2012.
  • Outcomes of the NeON project. IS/development-oriented content.

Ontological Engineering

• Euzenat, J., Shvaiko, P. (Eds.) Ontology Matching, Springer, 2013.
• Gómez-Pérez, A., Fernández-López, M., Corcho, O. Ontological Engineering. Springer Verlag London Ltd. 2004.
  • Bit outdated by now.
• Stuckenschmidt, H., Parent, C., and Spaccapietra, S. (Eds.). Modular Ontologies: Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization. Springer. 2009.

Ontological Languages and Formalisms

Description Logics (DL)

• Baader, F., Calvanese, D., McGuinness, D. L., Nardi, D., and Patel-Schneider, P. F. (Eds). The Description Logics Handbook - Theory and Applications. Cambridge University Press, 2003/2008.

Ontology and some subtopic or subject domain

These handbooks zoom in on more detail of one or more subtopics or domains of ontologies.

Natural Language

• Cimiano, P., Unger, C., and McCrae, J. Ontology-Based Interpretation of Natural Language (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies). (Apr 1, 2014).
• Cimiano, P. Ontology Learning and Population from Text: Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications Springer. 2006.
• Huang, C-R., Calzolari, N., Gangemi, A., Lenci, A., Oltramari, A., and Prevot, L. (Eds.). Ontology and the Lexicon. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Semantic Web

• Baker, C.J.O., Cheung, H. (Eds). Semantic Web: revolutionizing knowledge discovery in the life sciences. Springer: New York, 2007.
• Breslin, J.G., Passant, A. and Decker, S. (Eds.). The Social Semantic Web, Springer, 2009.
• Domingue, J., Fensel, D., and Hendler, J.A. (Eds.). Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies. 1st Ed., Springer, 2011.

Software Engineering

• Calero, C., Ruiz, F. and Piattini, M. (Eds.) Ontologies for Software Engineering and Software Technology. Springer, 2010.
• Gasevic, D., Djuric, D., and Devedzic, V. (Eds.). Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development. Springer, 2009.
• Pan, J.Z., Staab, S., Assmann, U., and Ebert, J. Ontology-Driven Software Development. Springer, 2012.
• Staab, S. and Studer, R., editors. Handbook on Ontologies. Springer, 2 edition. 2009

Miscellanea

• Falquet, G., Metral, C., Teller, J., Tweed, C. (Eds.). Ontologies in Urban Development Projects. 1st Ed., Springer, 2011, 241 pp.
• Borgest N.M., Ontology of Designing. Part 1: Concepts and Principles : Electronic Textbook /Samara State Aerospace University. - Samara, 2011. – 77 pp.
  • The guidelines for laboratory works on the subject “Ontology of Designing” are a part of postgraduate programmes which were developed based on using new educational technologies, resources and distance-learning systems for the Masters programme «Designing, construction and CALS-technologies in Aeronautical Engineering » for education direction 160100.68 «Aeronautical Engineering». Prepared by the Department of Aeronautical Engineering SSAU.
• Borgest, N.M., Simonova E.V., Shustova D.V. Design Problem Solving Using Ontological Systems : Electronic Laboratory Guideline / Samara State Aerospace University; Compilers - Samara, 2011. – 117 pp.
  • The guidelines for laboratory works on the subject “Ontology of Designing” are a part of postgraduate programmes which were developed based on using new educational technologies, resources and distance-learning systems for the Masters programme «Designing, construction and CALS-technologies in Aeronautical Engineering » for education direction 160100.68 «Aeronautical Engineering». Prepared by the Department of Aeronautical Engineering SSAU.
• Sartor, G., Casanovas, P., Biasiotti, M., Fern\a'ndez-Barrera, M. (Eds.). Approaches to Legal Ontologies--Theories, Domains, Methodologies. 1st Ed., Springer, 2011, 279 pp.