Ontology for Dummies

[Tony Linde]

I know, there isn't such a book, so what can we (the non-experts) have
to get us up to speed. Can we come up with suggested texts that would
take a non-expert from basics through to understanding why and how to
encode a subject domain ontology and why and how to use it in one or
more applications.

Can people suggest books and web sites (tutorial oriented) in the
following categories (or others if I'm off beam):

Overview of ontologies
Introduction to DL
Aspects of DL applicable to ontologies
Basics of any ontology language
Coding an ontology in {DAML+OIL, OWL, etc.}
Specific applications of ontological approach to problem solving

I've found the following site:
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/dl/course/
Would any of these books be useful in the above sections? If so, which?

Cheers,
Tony. 

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