Schedule

Draft subject to change
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date
day
Topic To do
1
1/26
Thr
Introduction

read: The Semantic Web , Sci Am, May 2001 ( pdf )
read: Wikipedia Semantic Web article
OUT: assignment one
ppt: Introduction to the Semantic Web ( pdf )

2
1/31
Tue
Introduction

read: SWP Chapter 1
ppt: A motivating example ( pdf )
ppt: Semantic Web technologies ( pdf )
view: Intro to the SW, part 1

3
2/2
Thr
Applications, XML

read: SWP 2.1-2.4
read: The Semantic Web in Action, Sci Am, 2007
read: Web 3.0 Emerging
view: 2008 Semantic Web Challenge
ppt: Applications ( pdf )
ppt: XML ( pdf )
OUT: assignment two
due: assignment one

4
2/7
Tue
XML read: SWP 2.5-2.7
ppt: XML ( pdf )
try: XMLSpy, oxygen
5
2/9
Thr
XML
JSON
read: Introducing JSON
read: Wikipedia JSON article
ppt: JSON ( pdf )
SEE: XML examples
6
2/14
Tue
RDF
read: SWP 3.1-3.3
read: Creating a Science of the Web
read: Web Science (CACM)
ppt: RDF Syntax ( pdf )
due: assignment two
7
2/16
Thr
RDF/RDFS

read: SWP 3.4-3.6
read: The shortest path to the future web
ppt: RDF Schema ( pdf )
onto: rdf namespace
onto: rdfs namespace
ppt: CWM notes ( pdf )
OUT: assignment Three

8
2/21
Tue
RDFS read: SWP 3.7-3.8
read: N3Logic: A Logical Framework For the World Wide Web
ex: RDFS rules in N3
try: CWM
slides: Semantic Web tutorial using N3
9
2/23
Thr
RDF

read: Experience with N3 rules
ppt: RDF Semantics ( pdf )

10
2/28
Tue
SPARQL

read: SWP 4.1-4.4
ppt: SPARQL ( pdf )
due: assignment three

11
3/1
Thr
DL 102

read: SWP 4.5-4.9
ppt: RDF semantics ( pdf )
ppt: OWL ( pdf )
view: Intro to OWL ( ppt )
ex: OWL rules in N3 ( ppt )

12
3/6
Tue
OWL 3

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

13
3/8
Thr
OWL 4

try: Protege
try: RACER
read: Ontology Development 101
read: OWL Pizzas
read: getting started protege OWL 4.x
view: Manchester OWL syntax
ppt: protegeOWL1 ( pdf )
ppt: protegeOWL2 ( pdf )

14
3/13
Tue
Beyond OWL

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

15
3/15
Thr
Rules

read: SWP 5.1-5.10
ppt: Rules ( pdf )
do: asssigment 4
do: asssigment 5

 
3/20
Tue
Spring break

 

 
3/22
Thr
Spring break
16
3/27
Tue
Rules: SWRL

do: asssigment 4
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
ppt: Rules ( pdf )

17
3/29
Thr
OWL 2 do: asssigment 4
ppt: OWL 2 ( pdf )
18
4/3
Tue

OWL 2
resolution

ppt: OWL 2 ( pdf )
ppt: Resoluton ( pdf )

19
4/5
Thr

from tables to rdf

Varish Mulwad

20
4/10
Tue

Triple stores

LOD query

PPT: triple stores (pdf)
PPT: Making the Semanic Web Easier to USE (pdf)

21
4/12
Thr

R2R

PPT: R2R (pdf)
VIEW: R2DQ site and documents

22
4/17
Tue

Student presentations

  • Donna Thomas and Faran Negarestan, Semantic Web and Data Mininga>
  • Shayna Weinstein, GRDDL Transformation
  • Yan Kang, Introduction to Ontology Mapping
  • Han Dong, Classification Algorithms and Semantic Metadata

  • 23
    4/19
    Thr
    Student presentations

  • Adrian Rosebrock, Semantic Image Retrieval
  • Sandhya Krishnan and Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Semantic Search engine - A survey
  • 24
    4/24
    Tue

    Student presentations

  • Roshan Ghumare and Arnav Joshi, WebPIE : A Web-Scale Parallel Inference Engine
  • Andrew Odensos, Web Semantics and Education
  • Taneeya Satyapanich, Social Semantic Web
  • Joe Roden, Interactive Exploratory Analysis of RDF/OWL Knowledge Bases

  • 25
    4/26
    Thr
    Student presentations
  • Alex Markowski, E-commerce and the semantic web
  • Peter Stamboulis, A Survey of Semantic Web Tools and Applications
  • Yunsu Lee, Natural Language Processing in Ontology learning
  • Ravendar Lal, Linked Open Government Data
  • Puneet Sharma, Semantic annotations to medical images
  • Matt Molek, Automated Ontology Evaluation
  • 26
    5/1
    Tue
    Student presentations
  • Matt Molek, Automated Ontology Evaluation
  • Lisa Mathews, Semantic Web for e-science
  • Sumit More and Deepal Dhariwal, Semantic Web and Intrusion Detection
  • 27
    5/3
    Thr
    Student presentations
  • Zinart Muco, Semantic Web and Cyber Security
  • David Zochowski and Yordan Kadelov, Visualizing the Semantic Web
  • Adam Shook, Hadoop and the Semantic Web
  • Anurag Korde, Semantic Web Services
  • 28
    5/8
    Tue
    Student presentations

  • Nikhil Puranik, DBpedia & Linked Open Data
  • Chris Nithianandam, Music and the Semantic Web
  • Chris Dohanich, Semantic Web for Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • Chris Mucciolo, Semantic MediaWiki

  • 26
    5/10
    Thr
    Wrap Up

    ppt: Trends ( pdf )
    Discuss final projects, current trends in Semantic technologies, research and career opportunities