Thoroughly covering basic introductions and intuitions, technical details, and formal foundations, this text focuses on the established foundations in this area that have become relatively stable over time. It presents the latest developments in Semantic Web standards, including RDF, RDF Schema, OWL 2, RIF, and SPARQL. It also explores formal semantics, OWL querying, the relationship between rules and OWL, and ontology engineering and applications.

Pascal Hitzler works in the Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

Markus Krotzsch and Sebastian Rudolph work in the institute AIFB at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.