Semantic Web Technologies course - SS 2007

The webpage of the course with the same name in 2006 can be found here

This page contains lecture slides and reading material for the lecture "Semantic Web Technologies". Course code: 70175, MSc, 2nd Semester, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, 2007.

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

The first exam took place on June 20, 2007, 10:00 -- 12:00. The exam was closed-book, i.e. it as not allowed to use any of the lecture material during the exam. The students were given a helper sheet for reference during the exam. exam marks

The material to be studied for the exam consists of the handouts and basic reading of lectures.

Overview of course material for exam

To give an idea of the questions asked at the exam, there is a test exam.

Lectures

Lectures take place on Wednesdays from 08:30-10:30 in room E420, with the exception of February 28 and April 25

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. Feb 21. Introduction, Ontologies and basic RDF
2. Mar 07. Advanced RDF and RDF Schema
3. Mar 14. Basic SPARQL
4. Mar 21. Advanced SPARQL
5. Mar 28. Web Ontology Language OWL
6. Apr 04. OWL DL and RDF Rules
7. Apr 11. Ontologies and Rules with F-Logic
8. Apr 18. F-Logic Semantics
9. May 02. Relations between Semantic Web Languages
10. May 09. Semantic Web Vocabularies and Applications
11. May 16. Semantic Web Services
12. May 23. Semantic Web in Life Sciences (Marijke Keet)

1. Introduction, Ontologies and basic RDF (21 February 2007)

Handouts

handouts 1up_pdf  |  handouts 6up_pdf

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. Advanced RDF and RDF Schema (07 March 2007)

Handouts

handouts 1up_pdf  |  handouts 6up_pdf

Basic reading

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

Optional reading

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

Reference Material

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

3. Basic SPARQL (14 March 2007)

Handouts

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

Optional reading

• Jena SPARQL tutorial.

Reference Material

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

4. Advanced SPARQL

Handouts

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

Reference Material

• SPARQL Query Language for RDF

5. Web Ontology Language OWL

Handouts

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

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

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

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 Semantics

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)
• 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

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

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.

10. Semantic Web Vocabularies and Applications

Handouts

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

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

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

Basic reading

• 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

• L. Li, I. Horrocks: A Software Framework For Matchmaking Based on Semantic Web Technology, in WWW2003.
• 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. Semantic Web in Life Sciences (guest lecture by Marijke Keet)

Handouts

handouts 1up_pdf | handouts 6up_pdf

Basic reading

• Ruttenberg, A. et al. Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web. BMC Bioinfromatics, 2007, 8(Suppl 3):S2.

Optional reading

• Baker, C.J.O. and Cheung, H. (Eds.). Semantic Web: revolutionizing knowledge discovery in the life sciences. Springer: New York. 2007. [at disposal from Marijke Keet in room 223 in the CS faculty building]
• Keet, C.M. and Rodriguez, M. Toward using biomedical ontologies: trade-offs between ontology languages. AAAI Workshop on Semantic eScience (SeS 2007). Vancouver, Canada, 23 July 2007.
• W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group.