Intelligent Book Mashup: Using Semantic Web Ontologies and Rules for User Personalisation

The current trends for the future evolution of the Web are without doubt the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. A common perception for these two visions is that they are competing. Nevertheless, it becomes more and more obvious that these two concepts are complementary. Towards this perspective, in this work we introduce an application based on a 3-tier architecture that illustrates the potential for combining Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technologies. This application consists a framework for searching books from Amazon and Half EBay. The implementation's backbone is focused on developing the underlying ontology, writing a set of rules for personalisation and creating a mashup with the use of Web APIs.