This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2017, held in Goldcoast, QLD, Australia, in November 2017. The 19 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. They present applications of semantic technologies, theoretical results, new algorithms and tools to facilitate the adoption of semantic technologies and are organized in topical sections on ontology and data management; ontology reasoning; linked data and query; information retrieval and knowledge discovery; knowledge graphs; and applications of semantic technologies.
