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Semantic Web
[go to overview]Summer Term 2005
The lecture on Semantic Web targets students of the summer academy, informatics, computational visualistics, information management as well as students of other studies. As background we expect basic knowledge of 1st order predicate logics.
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The 60 minutes written exam will be hold on 29.7.2005 at 10.15 hrs.
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Relevant Literature
Basic overview of Semantic Web Idea:
- Berners-Lee T, Hendler J, and Lassila O (2001) The semantic web. Scientific American, pp 35-43. (read it with a grain of salt)
Technologies & Applications:
- Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer: Handbook on Ontologies, Springer 2004 (parts of it).
- F. Baader, D. Calvanese, D.L. McGuinness, D. Nardi, P.F. Patel-Schneider, Description Logic Handbook, edited by, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (parts of it).
General:
- Journal of Web Semantics
- IEEE Intelligent Systems
- W3C
Useful resources
Rules engines: Ontobroker, XSB, Triple
OWL + rules reasoner: Kaon2
OWL reasoners: Fact, DLP Reasoner, Racer, Pellet
Query Engine + APIs: Jena
Query Language: SPARQL
RDF Spec, RDF Tutorial
OWL Spec, OWL Tutorial
Lecture schedule
| Date | Topic | Slides | |
| 23.6. | Motivation | intro.pdf intro4.pdf |
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| 1 | 24.6. | ||
| 28.6. | Exercise | ||
| 2 | 30.6. | Ontologies (WordNet, UMLS, Gene Ontology, Galen) | 2-ontologies.pdf 2-ontologies4.pdf |
| 3 | 1.7 | XML | 3-xml.pdf 3-xml4.pdf |
| 5.7 | Excercise | ||
| 4 | 7.7. | RDF | 4-rdf.pdf 4-rdf4.pdf |
| 5 | 8.7. | ||
| 12.7 | Excercise | ||
| 6 | 14.7. | Logic; OWL (cf Rector et al. OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns, in EKAW 2004: 63-81.) | 5-logic.pdf 5-logic4.pdf |
| 7 | 15.7. | 6-owl.pdf 6-owl4.pdf |
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| 8 | 19.7 | Excercise | |
| 21.7. | Applications of OWL (Ontology Engineering - A. Rector "Modularisation of Domain Ontologies Implemented in Description Logics and related formalisms including OWL" in K-Cap-2003; Web Service Discovery - S. Grimm et al. "Variance in e-Business Service Discovery" in Semantic Web Services: Preparing to Meet the World of Business Applications, workshop at ISWC 2004) | ||
| 9 | 22.7. | Ontology Lifecycle | 7-ontology-lifecycle.pdf 7-ontology-lifecycle4.pdf |
| 26.7. | Exercise | ||
| 10 | 28.7. | Ontology Lifecycle & Evaluation | |
| 29.7. | exam |
Lecturers
- Founder
- Alumnus