Information sharing and communication are paramount in any organization [1]. Information can be shared by converting it into an ontological format, such as Web ontology language (OWL). The book--presented as a collection of wonderful papers related to Web semantics--describes the various ways in which information can be represented and stored, using semantic Web technology. Each part contains a wealth of information on the topics discussed.

Part 1 provides an extensive discussion of ontology and knowledge sharing. The first paper explains the developing ontology-grounded methods and applications (DOGMA) approach that is being developed at Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s STARLab. I believe that this paper is an abridged version of Mustafa Jarrar’s thesis [2]. Figure 3 in the paper provides a description of the DOGMA approach. The next paper, on process mining using semantic Web technology, captures the underlying concepts and philosophies involved in representing the workflows of a process. The remaining papers in Part 1 provide more intricate details on suitably modeling a process to generate its ontological representation. Using finite models to depict a process is also presented.

Part 2 has papers on using the semantic Web for business processes, providing some details on the representation of workflows using process flow diagrams, state diagrams, and process taxonomy. Unlike the papers in Part 1, the papers in Part 2 provide more detailed information on the examples used to illustrate the concepts. Although this part is shorter than Part 1, its papers provide more thorough, detailed explanations of the topics discussed.

Part 3, the shortest part of the book, provides some insight into semantic Web services. The first paper describes process mediation using OWL-S. Although this is a good paper, it does not mention that in September 2007, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) considered the Web services description language WSDL-S as an alternative to OWL-S.

Overall, the book presents a very good collection of papers related to the semantic Web, but it fails to provide a continuous flow of the ideas presented. It feels more like reading the proceedings of a conference on semantic Web technology.