Semantic Web Technologies course - WS 2008/2009

This page contains lecture slides, reading material, and exam results for the lecture "Semantic Web Technologies". Course code: 70175, MSc, Winter Semester, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, 2008-2009.

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For any questions or comments regarding the lecture or this web site, please contact Jos de Bruijn.

Lab Exercises

The schedule and content of the lab exercises can be found here.

Exam

First exam

The first exam took place on January 28, 2008, 11:00 - 13:00. The exam was closed-book, i.e., it is not allowed to use any of the lecture material during the exam. The students are given the RDF definition document for reference during the exam.

exam | results (including results from lab exercises)

combined results of first and third exam: results

Lectures

Lectures take place on Fridays from 16:00-18:00 in room D003, from 3 October 3 until 19 December, 2008.

Each lecture has associated basic reading, optional 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.

Besides the reading for each topic, there is one optional textbook for the course:

Grigori Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen: A Semantic Web Primer, MIT Press, USA, 2004. ISBN: 0-262-01210-3

1. Oct 03. Introduction, Ontologies and Basic RDF
2. Oct 10. RDF Schema and RDF Simple Entailment
3. Oct 17. Simple Entailment and SPARQL
4. Oct 24. RDFS Entailment
5. Oct 31. Web Ontology Language OWL
6. Nov 7. OWL DL and RDF Rules
7. Nov 14. Ontologies and Rules with F-Logic
8. Nov 21. F-Logic vs. RDF and F-Logic Semantics
9. Nov 28. Relations between Semantic Web Languages
10. Dec 05. Semantic Web Vocabularies and Applications
11. Dec 12. Semantic Web Services
12. Dec 19. Review Course Contents and Exam Material

1. Introduction, Ontologies and basic RDF (03 October 2007)

Handouts

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Basic reading

• Ontology Development 101
• RDF Primer: Chapters 1-4.

Optional reading

• Berners-Lee, T.; Hendler, J.; Lassila, O.: The Semantic Web. Scientific American, May 2001.
• Jos de Bruijn: Using Ontologies. DERI-TR-2003-10-29, 2003.
• Semantic Web Primer, Chapters 1 and 2, and Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.

Reference Material

• RDF Concepts and abstract syntax
• RDF/XML syntax specification

2. RDF Schema and RDF Simple Entailment

Handouts

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Basic reading

• RDF Primer: Chapters 5-7.
• RDF Semantics: Chapters 1-2.

Optional reading

• Semantic Web Primer, Sections 3.4 - 3.6.
• J. de Bruijn and S. Heymans. Logical foundations of (e)RDF(S): Complexity and reasoning. In Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007).
• J. de Bruijn, E. Franconi, and S. Tessaris. Logical reconstruction of normative RDF. In OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED-2005), Galway, Ireland, November 2005.
• 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.

Reference Material

• RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema
• RDF/XML syntax specification
• RDF Semantics

3. Simple Entailment and SPARQL

Handouts

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Required reading

• RDF Semantics: Chapters 1-2.
• Jena SPARQL tutorial.

Reference Material

• SPARQL Query Language for RDF
• Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language
• RDF Semantics

4. RDFS Entailment

Handouts

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Basic reading

• Resource Description Framework Definition
• RDF Semantics: Chapters 1-2, 4.

Optional reading

• Semantic Web Primer, Sections 3.4 - 3.6.
• J. de Bruijn and S. Heymans. Logical foundations of (e)RDF(S): Complexity and reasoning. In Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007).
• J. de Bruijn, E. Franconi, and S. Tessaris. Logical reconstruction of normative RDF. In OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED-2005), Galway, Ireland, November 2005.
• 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.

Reference Material

• RDF Semantics

5. Web Ontology Language OWL

Handouts

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Basic reading

• OWL Guide
• Jos de Bruijn. Logics for the semantic web. In Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and Applications. IDEA Publishing, 2007. Sections 2 and 3.
• 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.

Optional reading

• Semantic Web Primer, Chapter 4.
• I. Horrocks and P. F. Patel-Schneider. Reducing OWL entailment to description logic satisï¬ability. In Proc. of the ISWC2003.
• Jos de Bruijn: Using Ontologies. Enabling Knowledge Sharing and Reuse on the Semantic Web. DERI Technical Report DERI-2003-10-29, 2003.

Reference Material

• OWL Reference
• OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics

6. OWL DL and RDF Rules

Handouts

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

Basic reading

• 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.

Optional reading

• 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.
• I. Horrocks and P. F. Patel-Schneider. Reducing OWL entailment to description logic satisï¬ability. In Proc. of the ISWC2003.
• T. Eiter, T. Lukasiewicz, R. Schindlauer, H. Tompits: Combining Answer Set Programming with Description Logics for the Semantic Web. In KR2004.
• R. Rosati: DL+log : Tight Integration of Description Logics and Disjunctive Datalog. In KR2006.

Reference Material

• OWL Reference
• OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics

7. Ontologies and Rules with F-Logic

Handouts

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Basic reading

• Michael Kifer: Rules and Ontologies in F-Logic. Reasoning Web 2005: 22-34
• Jos de Bruijn. Logics for the semantic web. In Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and Applications. IDEA Publishing, 2007. Sections 4 and 5.

Optional reading

• 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

8. F-Logic vs. RDF and F-Logic Semantics

Handouts

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Basic reading

• Michael Kifer: Rules and Ontologies in F-Logic. Reasoning Web 2005: 22-34

Optional reading

• J. de Bruijn and S. Heymans. Logical foundations of (e)RDF(S): Complexity and reasoning. In Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007).
• 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)
• Jos de Bruijn and Stijn Heymans. Translating ontologies from predicate-based to frame-based languages. In RuleML-2006, Athens, Georgia, USA, November 10-11 2006. IEEE.

9. Relations between Semantic Web Languages

Handouts

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Basic reading

Optional reading

• Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider: Three theses of representation in the semantic web. WWW 2003: 39-47.
• J. de Bruijn, A. Polleres, R. Lara, and D. Fensel. OWL DL vs. OWL Flight: Conceptual modeling and reasoning on the semantic web. In Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005), Chiba, Japan, 2005. ACM.
• J. de Bruijn and S. Heymans. On the relationship between description logic-based and f-logic-based ontologies. Fundamenta Informaticae, 82(3):213-236, 2008.

10. Semantic Web Vocabularies and Applications

Handouts

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Basic reading

• E. Dumbill: XML Watch: Finding friends with XML and RDF, 2002.
• Bridging XHTML, XML and RDF with GRDDL
• H-P. Schnurr, J. Angele: Automotive Industry Experience with Semantic Guides. ISWC 2005: 1029-1040

Optional reading

• J. Angele, E. Moench, H. Oppermann, D. Wenke: Halo I: A Controlled Experiment for Large Scale Knowledge Base Development. LPNMR 2005: 26-39
• FoaF Project

Reference material

• Dublin Core
• RSS
• FoaF

11. Semantic Web Services

Handouts

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Basic reading

• L. Li, I. Horrocks: A Software Framework For Matchmaking Based on Semantic Web Technology, in WWW2003.
• J. de Bruijn, D. Fensel, U. Keller, and R. Lara. Using the web service modelling ontology to enable Semantic eBusiness. Communications of the ACM, special issue on the semantic e-business vision, 48(12):43-47, December 2005.

Optional reading

• S. McIlraith, T.C. Son, H. Zeng: Semantic Web Services, in IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on the Semantic Web, 16(2): 46-53, March/April 2001.
• WSMO specification
• OWL-S specification
• WSDL-S specification
• U. Keller, R. Lara, H. Lausen, A. Polleres, and D. Fensel: Automatic Location of Services. ESWC 2005: 1-16
• D. Roman, U. Keller, H. Lausen, R. Lara, J. de Bruijn, M. Stollberg, A. Polleres, C. Feier, C. Bussler, and D. Fensel. Web service modeling ontology. Applied Ontology, 1(1):77-106, 2005.

12. Review Course Contents and Exam Material

Handouts

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