Taxonomies, Ontologies and Semantic Web course
This page contains syllabus, lecture
slides, reading material, and
exam for the
course "Taxonomies, Ontologies and Semantic Web". Course code:
MISM
516, MTech, International School of
Information Management, Mysore,
India.
For any questions or comments regarding the lecture or this web
site, please contact Rajendra Akerkar.
Course Syllabus
The Semantic Web represents a vision
for how to make the huge amount of information on the Web
automatically
processable by machines on a large scale. It all started from
here, The
Semantic
Web
(Scientific
American,
May
2001), where the vision of
the Semantic Web is formally described by Tim Berners-Lee.
The
course offers a comprehensive coverage of core standards and
technical
components of the Semantic Web, and can help you overcome the
steep
learning curve.
The course outline can be found here.
Project Topics
The project topics can be found here.
Presentation Topics
The student presentation topics can be found here.
Lectures
This will be 2 weeks course. Each
class
session will be of 1 hour 30 min. duration.
Classes will comprise of lecture, hands-on-practice, discussion
etc.
Students will be encouraged to participate in class-discussion and
will
make at least one presentation during the course.
Each lecture has associated book
reading, additional reading and reference material. Basic reading
is
required material for the course. Optional reading is more
advanced
reading which provides more insight in the topics. Finally,
reference
material consists of language references, which are useful for the
practical day-to-day use of the languages.
- Web of Data
- Semantics & Logic
- Semantic Web Vision & Vocabularies
- Knowledge Organization Systems
- Taxonomies
- Resource Description Framework
- Ontologies – I Basics
- Ontologies – II Tools, Examples
- Web Ontology Languages
- Ontologies in OWL
- Ontology Engineering
- Logic (including Description Logic)
- Reasoning and Rules
- Query Languages
- Linked Data
- Applications
- Semantic Web & Intelligent Agents
- Topic Maps
Reading Material
Books
- Rajendra Akerkar: Foundations
of
the
Semantic
Web, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi and Alpha
Science Intern., Oxford (2009). 978-1-84265-535-1.
- Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van
Harmelen: A Semantic Web Primer,
Second Edition. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2008). ISBN
978-0-262-01242-3.
- Manish
Joshi, Harold
Boley, Rajendra Akerkar (Eds.). Advances in Semantic
Computing, e-Book,
Technomathematics Research
Foundation, 2010, http://www.tmrfindia.org/eseries/ebookV2.html
- Pascal Hitzler, Markus
Krötzsch, and Sebastian Rudolph: Foundations of Semantic
Web
Technologies, CRC Press/Chapman and Hall (2009).
ISBN: 142009050X
- D. Allemang and J. Hendler: Semantic Web for the Working
Ontologist. Morgan Kaufmann (2008).
Tools
- The Protégé Ontology Editor (version 4.1 beta)
can
be downloaded from http://protege.stanford.edu/
- SWOOP is an
open-source editor with built-in access to the Pellet reasoner
- Jena, a Java
framework for RDF and OWL. Includes RDF and OWL APIs, and the
ability
to read/write RDF/XML into these APIs
Additional Reading
- T. Berners-Lee. Semantic Web Road Map. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic
- T. Berners-Lee. Evolvability. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Evolution.html
- T. Berners-Lee. What the Semantic Web can represent. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html
- E. Dumbill. The Semantic Web: A Primer. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/11/01/semanticweb/
- Berners-Lee, T.; Hendler, J.; Lassila, O.: The
Semantic Web. Scientific American, May 2001.
- D. Fensel, J. Hendler, H. Lieberman and W. Wahlster (eds).
Spinning the Semantic Web. MIT Press 2002, ISBN 0-262-06232-1.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262062321/qid%3D1075813007/202-1618432-3813461
- Rob Jasper, Anita Tyler. The role of semantics and inference
in
the semantic web, a commercial challenge http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/program/position/soi-jasper.pdf
- H. J. ter Horst. Completeness, decidability and complexity of
entailment
for rdf schema and a semantic extension involving the owl
vocabulary.
Journal of Web Semantics, 3(23):79115, 2005.
- OWL Guide
- Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, and Frank van
Harmelen. From
SHIQ
and
RDF
to
OWL:
The
making
of
a
web
ontology language. Journal
of Web Semantics, 1(1):7, 2003.
- B. N. Grosof, I. Horrocks, R. Volz, and S. Decker. Description
logic programs: Combining logic programs with description logic.
In Proc. Intl. Conf. on the World Wide Web (WWW-2003),
Budapest,
Hungary, 2003.
- R. Rosati: DL+log : Tight Integration of Description Logics
and
Disjunctive Datalog. In KR2006.
- Michael Kifer, Georg Lausen, James Wu: Logical Foundations of
Object-Oriented and Frame-Based Languages. J. ACM 42(4): 741-843
(1995)
- Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer: Reasoning about Anonymous
Resources
and Meta Statements on the Semantic Web. J. Data Semantics 1:
69-97
(2003)
- Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer: Well-Founded Optimism:
Inheritance
in Frame-Based Knowledge Bases. CoopIS/DOA/ODBASE 2002:
1013-1032
- L. Li, I. Horrocks: A
Software
Framework
For
Matchmaking
Based
on
Semantic
Web
Technology, in WWW2003.
- Tom Heath and Christian Bizer: Linked Data: Evolving the
Web into a Global Data Space, Morgan
& Claypool Publishers (2011), ISBN: 9781608454310
- Alexandre Passant: Semantic Web Technologies for Enterprise
2.0,
IOS Press - AKA Verlag (2011), ISBN: 9781607506799
- Liyang Yu: A
Developer’s
Guide
to
the
Semantic
Web, Springer-Verlag
(2011), ISBN: 9783642159695
- Maneesh Joshi, Harold Boley, and Rajendra Akerkar
(Eds.): Advances
in
Semantic Computing, TMRF e-Book
Series;
ISBN
978-81-908426-1-7,
e-Book
Volume
2
(2010)
Reference Material
Exam
Details about the end of semester exam will be available here.
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