Semantic Web Technologies course

This page contains lecture slides and reading material for the lecture "Semantic Web Technologies". Course code: 70175, MSc, 2nd Semester, Part B, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, 2006.

The first exam took place on June 26th, 2006, in room E221. exam solutions helper sheet
exam results

The second took place on September 28th, 2006, 09:00-11:00.

The third exam will take place on February 6th, 14:00-16:00.

To give you an idea of the questions on the exam, there is a test exam (solutions).

The lab exercises can be found here.

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

Topics

• Ontologies
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• A query language for RDF: SPARQL
• Lightweight ontologies: RDF Schema
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• Ontologies and Rules in Frame Logic
• Exchange of rules over the Web: RuleML
• Semantic Web Services

Each topic 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 and 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

Lectures

1. Introduction, Ontologies and basic RDF
2. Advanced RDF and RDF Schema
3. Basic SPARQL
4. Advanced SPARQL
5. Web Ontology Language OWL
6. OWL DL and RDF Rules
7. Ontologies and Rules with F-Logic
8. Talk Claudio Gutierrez
9. F-Logic Semantics
10. Relations between Semantic Web Languages
11. Semantic Web Applications
12. Semantic Web Services: Basic Concepts
13. Semantic Web Services: Current Approaches
14. Review Course Contents and Exam Material

1. Introduction, Ontologies and basic RDF (26 April 2006)

Handouts

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Basic reading

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

Optional reading

• Semantic Web Primer, Chapters 1,2 and Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.
• 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.

Reference Material

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

2. Advanced RDF and RDF Schema (28 April 2006)

Handouts

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Basic reading

• RDF Primer: Chapters 5-7.
• RDF Semantics: Chapter 7.

Optional reading

• Semantic Web Primer, Sections 3.4 - 3.6.
• 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.

Reference Material

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

3. Basic SPARQL (3 May 2006)

Handouts

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Optional reading

• Jena SPARQL tutorial.

Reference Material

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

4. Advanced SPARQL (4 May 2006)

Handouts

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Reference Material

• SPARQL Query Language for RDF

5. Web Ontology Language OWL (10 May 2006)

Handouts

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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

• 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 (11 May 2006)

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

• 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 (17 May 2006)

Handouts

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

Basic reading

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

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. Talk Claudio Gutierrez: RDF from a Database Perspective (18 May 2006)

Handouts

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9. F-Logic Semantics (24 May 2006)

Handouts

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Basic reading

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

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

10. Relations between Semantic Web Languages (25 May 2006)

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.

11. Semantic Web Applications (31 May 2006)

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

12. Semantic Web Services: Basic Concepts (1 June 2006)

Handouts

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Basic 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.
• L. Li, I. Horrocks: A Software Framework For Matchmaking Based on Semantic Web Technology, in WWW2003.

13. Semantic Web Services: Current Approaches (6 June 2006)

Handouts

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Optional reading

• OWL-S specification
• WSMO specification
• WSDL-S specification
• 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.
• 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.

14. Review Course Contents and Exam Material (7 June 2006)

Handouts

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Labs

Please see the exercises page.