Readings

Text book

The text book in INFO216 is Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, Second Edition: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL by Dean Allemang and James Hendler (Jun 3, 2011). Morgan Kaufmann. The whole book is obligatory reading.

Other materials

In addition, the materials listed below for each lecture is either mandatory or suggested reading. Make sure you download the papers and web sites in good time before the exam. That way you are safe if a site becomes unavailable or somehow damaged the last few days before the exam. Note that to download some of the papers, you need to be inside UiB's network. Either use a computer directly on the UiB network or connect to your UiB account with VPN if you are elsewhere.

Finally, the lectures and lectures notes are also in the curriculum.

Lectures

Below are the mandatory and suggested readings for each lecture. All the text-book chapters are mandatory.

Lecture 1: Introduction

• Chapters 1-2 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• Tim Berners-Lee about the semantic web. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUrEh-nqtU> (mandatory)
• Welcome to Apache Jena (useful starting page)
• Apache Jena main page (useful starting page)
• The core RDF API (mandatory)
• Jena tutorials (useful starting page)
• An introduction to RDF and the Jena RDF API (mandatory)
• Package org.apache.jena.rdf.model (supplementary, but necessary for the labs and project - lab 1 and the lecture notes lists the classes and methods you should look at)

Lecture 2: RDF (tentative)

• Chapters 3 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• RDF 1.1 Primer
• RDF 1.1 Semantics
• RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax

Lecture 3: RDFS (tentative)

• Chapters 6-7 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• RDF Schema 1.1
• Reasoners and rules engines: Jena inference support

Lecture 4: Architecture (tentative)

• Chapter 4 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.

Lecture 5: Services (tentative)

• JSON Syntax
• Section 2 in JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API
• JSON-LD: Introductory Material (videos)

Lecture 6: SPARQL (tentative)

• Chapter 5 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• SPARQL 1.1 Query Language
• SPARQL 1.1 Update Language
• SPARQL 1.1 Overview

Lecture 7: Visualisation (tentative)

• Shneiderman, Ben (1996): The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations. Paper. [1]
• Heer & Shneiderman (2012): Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis - A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations. Paper. [2]
• Skjæveland 2012: Sgvizler. Paper. [3]
• Sgvizler 0.6
• VOWL: Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies
• WebVOWL

Lecture 8: RDFS Plus (tentative)

• Chapter 8 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.

Lecture 9: Vocabularies (tentative)

• Chapters 9-10 and 13 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)

Lecture 10: Linked Open Data (LOD) (tentative)

• LODstats
• The Linking Open Data cloud diagram
• State of the LOD Cloud 2014

Lecture 11: Resources (tentative)

• Dbpedia
• Wikidata
• GeoNames
• WordNet - A lexical database for English

Lecture 12: OWL (tentative)

• Chapters 11-12 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• OWL2 Overview
• OWL2 Primer
• OWL2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax
• Jena Ontology API

Lecture 13: OWL DL (tentative)

• Nardi & Brachman: Introduction to Description Logics. Chapter 1 in Description Logic Handbook. Paper. [4]
• Baader & Nutt: Basic Description Logics. Chapter 2 in Description Logic Handbook. Paper. [5]
• Complexity of Reasoning in Description Logics [6]

Lecture 14: Ontology development (tentative)

• Chapters 14-16 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• Noy & McGuinness (2001): Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology. Paper. [7]
• Sicilia et al. (2012): Empirical findings on ontology metrics. Paper. [8]