UMBC CMSC 491/691m Spring 2007 Special Topics: The Semantic Web

Schedule

subject to change
date
day
Topic To do
1/30
Tue
Introduction read: The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001. ( pdf )
do: assignment one
ppt: Introduction to the Semantic Web ( pdf )
2/1
Thr
Introduction read: SWP 1-22
read: Wikipedia Semantic Web article
2/6
Tue
Applications ppt: Applications ( pdf )
do: assignment two
due: assignment one
2/8
Thr
XML read: SWP 23-60
ppt: XML ( pdf )
try: XMLSpy
2/13
Tue
XML no class, snow and ice!
2/15
Thr
RDF read: SWP 61-83
read: Creating a Science of the Web
ppt: RDF ( pdf )
due: assignment two
2/20
Tue
RDF/RDFS

read: SWP 84-106
read: The shortest path to the future web
ppt: RDF Schema ( pdf )

2/22
Thr
OWL 1 read: SWP 109-137
ppt: RDF Semantics ( pdf )
ex: RDFS rules in N3
try: CWM
do: assignment three
slides: Semantic Web tutorial using N3
2/27
Tue
OWL 2

read: Experience with N3 rules
ppt: OWL ( pdf )

3/1
Thr
DL 101

ex: OWL rules in N3

3/6
Tue
DL 102

read: SWP 138-150
due: assignment three

3/8
Thr
OWL 3

ppt: DL ( pdf )
read: An Introduction to Description Logics
read: Complexity of reasoning in Description Logics

3/13
Tue
OWL 4 try: Protege
try: RACER
read: Ontology Development 101
read: OWL Pizzas
ppt: protegeOWL1 ( pdf )
ppt: protegeOWL2 ( pdf )
3/15
Thr
Beyond OWL

ppt: OWL abstract syntax ( pdf )
read: OWL 1.1 Web Ontology Language
read: OWL Web Ontology Language Guide

3/20
Tue
Spring break  
3/22
Thr
Spring break

 

3/27
Tue
Geospatial SW ppt: Geospatial Semantic Web ( pdf )
3/29
Thr
Rules

read: SWP 151-178
ppt: Rules ( pdf )

3/27
Tue
SWRL read: SWRL: A Semantic Web Rule Language
read: Supporting Rule System Interoperability on the SW with SWRL
read: Semantic web architecture: Stack or two towers
3/29
Thr
SPARQL  
4/3
Tue
SW services  
4/5
Thr
Triple Stores

Discussion: Tom Briggs and Lushn Han
ppt: What is a triple store? ( pdf )
read: Benchmarking Database Representations of RDF/S Stores
read: Scalability Report on Triple Store Applications
read: An Indexing Scheme for a Scalable RDF Triple Store
PPT: RDF in Oracle 10g and 11g ( pfd )
do: asssigment 4

4/10
Tue
Ontology mapping

Discussion: Justin Martieau and Frank Weiskopf
ppt: On Ontology matching ( pdf )
ppt: Prompt ( pdf )
read: The PROMPT Suite: Interactive Tools For Ontology Merging And Mapping, Noy and Musen, 2004..
ppt: On ontology mapping and alignment ( pdf )
read: Ontology Alignment: An annotated Bibliography, Noy and Stuckenschmidt, 2005.
read: Ontology Mapping: The State of the Art, Kalfoglou and Schorlemmer, 2005.

4/12
Thr
Microformats, RDFA, GRDDL Discussion: Dave Feltenberger and Randy Schauer
ppt: On Microformats ( pdf )
read: Microformats: a Pragmatic Path to the Semantic Web, Khare and Celik, 2006.
read: Microformats, The Next (Small) Thing on the Semantic Web?, Khare, 2006.
read: microformats.org
ppt: On RDFA and GRDDL ( pdf )
read: RDFa Priomer, W3C, 2007.
read: GRDDL Primer, W3C, 2006.
4/17
Tue
Semantic Web Services Discussion: John Krautheim and Clint Moulds
ppt: ( pdf )
read: OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services
read: Semantic Web services, McIlraith et al, 2001
read: Ontology Translation for Interoperability Among Semantic Web Services, Burstein and McDermott, 2005
read: The Web Service Modeling Framework WSMF
ppt: ( pdf )
4/19
Thr
Software Packages

Discussion: Zareen Syed and Mansi Radke and Phuong Nguyen
read: Redland RDF Libraries ( pdf )
read: The Design and Implementation of the Redland RDF Application Framework, David Beckett
ppt: Sesame ( pdf )
read: openRDF site
read: Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF
ppt: The Jena framework ( pdf )
read: Jena documentation
ppt: Redland ( pdf )

4/24
Tue
SPARQL/queries

Discussion: Andy Raim and Yonas Gurmu
ppt: SPARQL ( pdf )
read: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
read: SPARQL Protocol for RDF
read: SPARQL endpoint
ppt: Other languages ( pdf )
read: A comparison of RDF query languages ( data )
read: Wilbur Query Language Comparison
read: Generating Rewrite Rules by Browsing RDF Data

4/26
Thr
Ontologies

Discussion: Alex Nastersky and Edward Bindl
ppt: On CYC ( pdf )
explore: Cycorp site
view: Computers versus Common Sense, talk by Lenat, May 2006
read: CYC: a large-scale investment in knowledge infrastructure, CACM, 1995.
read: Mapping Ontologies into Cyc, AAAI, 2002.
read: COmmon Sense Reasoning -- from Cyc to Intelligent Assistant, 2006
read:
ppt: On Wordnet ( pdf )
explore: Wordnet site
explore: Word net KB
read: WordNet: a lexical database for English, CACM, 1995
read: RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet

5/1
Tue
IR & Search Discussion: Mark Moylan and Sandeep Balijepalli
ppt: On Swoogle ( pdf )
read: Swoogle: A Search and Metadata Engine for the Semantic Web",
ppt: Search and semantics ( pdf )
read: Semantic search, WWW 2003
5/3
Thr
Visualizing RDF data Discussion: Max Warnock
ppt: ( pdf )
5/8
Tue
TDB  
5/10
Thr
Enterprise integration Discussion: Jaewook Kim
ppt: ( pdf )
5/15
Tue
Projects  
   
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