Readings

Textbooks

Main course book (the whole book is mandatory reading):

• Dean Allemang, James Hendler & Fabien Gandon (2020). Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, Effective Modeling for Linked Data, RDFS and OWL (Third Edition). ISBN: 9781450376143, PDF ISBN: 9781450376150, Hardcover ISBN: 9781450376174, DOI: 10.1145/3382097.

Supplementary text book (not mandatory):

• Andreas Blumauer and Helmut Nagy (2020). The Knowledge Graph Cookbook - Recipes that Work. mono/monochrom. ISBN-10: ‎3902796707, ISBN-13: 978-3902796707.

Other materials

In addition, the materials listed below for each lecture are either mandatory or suggested reading. More materials will be added to each lecture in the coming weeks.

The lectures and lectures notes are also part of the curriculum.

Make sure you download the electronic resources to your own computer in good time before the exam. This is your own responsibility. That way you are safe if a site becomes unavailable or somehow damaged the last few days before the exam.

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Lectures

Below are the mandatory and suggested readings for each lecture. All the textbook chapters in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon are mandatory, whereas the chapters in Blumauer & Nagy are suggested.

Lecture 1: Introduction to KGs

Themes:

• Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
• Organisation of the course

Mandatory readings:

• Chapters 1-2 in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon (3rd edition)
• Tim Berners-Lee talks about the semantic web
• Slides from the lecture

Useful materials:

• Important knowledge graphs (which we will look more at later):
  • Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org/)
  • GeoNames (https://www.geonames.org/)
• Pages 27-55 and 105-122 in Blumauer & Nagy (suggested)

Lecture 2: Representing KGs (RDF)

Themes:

• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Programming RDF in Python

Mandatory readings:

• Chapter 3 in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon (3rd edition)
• W3C's RDF 1.1 Primer
• RDFlib 6.2.0 documentation:
  • Main page
  • Getting started with RDFLib
  • Loading and saving RDF
  • Creating RDF triples
  • Navigating Graphs
  • Utilities and convenience functions
  • RDF terms in rdflib
  • Namespaces and Bindings
• Slides from the lecture

Useful materials:

• RDF Grapher for drawing RDF graphs
• RDFLib 6.2.0 packages (reference for the labs)
• W3C's RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax
• An overview page of some other RDF Data Visualization tools
• Pages 25-28, 92-100, 125-128, and 164-167 in Blumauer & Nagy (suggested)

Lecture 3: Querying and updating KGs (SPARQL)

Themes:

• SPARQL queries
• SPARQL Update
• Programming SPARQL and SPARQL Update in Python

Mandatory readings (tentative):

• Chapter 6 in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon (3rd edition)
• Constructing SPARQL Queries
• SPARQL 1.1 Update Language (Sections 1-3)
• rdflib 6.1.1 materials:
  • Querying with SPARQL
• Slides from the lecture

Useful materials:

• SPARQL 1.1 Cheat Sheet
• SPARQL 1.1 Query Language
• SPARQL 1.1 Update Language (the rest of it)
• For example pages 54-55, 133 in Blumauer & Nagy (suggested)

Lecture 4: Open Knowledge Graphs I

Themes:

• The LOD cloud
• Important open KGs (LOD datasets)
  • Wikidata
  • DBpedia (lecture 5)
  • GeoNames (lecture 5)
  • the GDELT project (lecture 5)
  • WordNet (lecture 5)
  • BabelNet (lecture 5)
  • ConceptNet (lecture 5)

Mandatory readings (both lecture 4 and 5):

• Chapter 5 in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon (3rd edition)
• Linked Data, Tim Berners-Lee, 2006-07-27.
• The Linking Open Data (LOD) cloud diagram - The Linked Open Data Cloud
• Important knowledge graphs - and what to read:
  • Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org/):
    • Introduction to Wikidata
    • SPARQL query service/A gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service
    • example: [1]
  • DBpedia (https://www.dbpedia.org):
    • About Dbpedia
    • example: [2]
  • GeoNames (https://www.geonames.org/):
    • About GeoNames
    • example: [3]
  • GDELT (https://www.gdeltproject.org/)
    • The GDELT Project - see also the About and Data pages
  • WordNet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/)
    • WordNet - A lexical database for English
  • BabelNet (https://babelnet.org/):
    • About BabelNet
    • How to use
    • example: [4]
  • ConceptNet (http://conceptnet.io)
    • ConceptNet - An open, multilingual knowledge graph
• Slides from the lecture

Useful materials

• Bizer, C., Heath, T., & Berners-Lee, T. (2009). Linked data-the story so far. Semantic services, interoperability and web applications: emerging concepts, 205-227.
• Wikidata statistics
  • Entity statistics
  • Statement statistics
• DBpedia Spotlight
• GDELT documentation
  • Event Codebook (and covers mentions)
  • CAMEO event codes and other codes
  • Global Knowledge Graph Codebook
• Parts 1 and 3 in Blumauer & Nagy's text book (not tightly related to the lecture, but time to finish them by now :-))

Lecture 5: Open Knowledge Graphs II

See readings for lecture 4.

Lecture 6: Enterprise Knowledge Graphs

Themes:

• Enterprise Knowledge Graphs (EKGs)
• Guest lecture with Sindre Asplem from CapGemini, who will talk about CapGemini's experiences with EKGs, including methods and high-level architecture. He will also talk about SHACL, the RDF Shapes Constraint Language (which we may revisit in Lecture 7 and Exercise 7).

Related themes:

• Google’s Knowledge Graph
• Amazon’s Product Graphs
• News Hunter’s infrastructure and architecture

Mandatory readings:

• Introducing the Knowledge Graph: Things not Strings, Amit Singhal, Google (2012). (The blog post that introduced Google's knowledge graph to the world.)
• A reintroduction to our Knowledge Graph and knowledge panels, Danny Sullivan, Google (2020).
• How Amazon’s Product Graph is helping customers find products more easily, Arun Krishnan, Amazon (2018). (Short blog post that reviews some central ideas from the AutoKnow research paper listed below.)
• Building product graphs automatically, Xin Luna Dong, Amazon (2020).
• Slides from Sindre Asplem's guest lecture are available from mitt.uib.no .

Supplementary readings (preliminary):

• News Angler / News Hunter poster
• AutoKnow: Self-Driving Knowledge Collection for Products of Thousands of Types. Example of research paper from Amazon - this is a bit heavy for Bachelor level, but you can have a look :-)
• Parts 2 and 4 in Blumauer & Nagy's text book (strongly suggested - this is where Blumauer & Nagy's book is good!)

Lecture 7: Rules (SHACL and RDFS)

Themes:

• SHACL and RDFS
• Axioms, rules and entailment
• Programming SHACL and RDFS in Python

Mandatory readings (preliminary):

• Chapters 7-8 in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon (3rd edition)
• Chapter 5 SHACL in Validating RDF (available online)
  • Sections 5.1, 5.3-5.5, and 5.6,1-5.6.3
• W3C's RDF Schema 1.1, focus on sections 1-3 and 6
• Slides from the lecture

Useful materials:

• Interactive, online SHACL Playground
• Lab presentation containing a short overview of SHACL and pySHACL
• pySHACL - A Python validator for SHACL at PyPi.org (after installation, go straight to "Python Module Use".)
• Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) (Editor's Draft)
• W3C's RDF 1.1 Semantics (the axioms and entailments in sections 8 and 9, are most important, and we will review them in the lecture)
• Inference and Thruth Maintenance in Blazegraph
• OWL-RL adds inference capability on top of RDFLib. To use it, copy the owlrl folder into your project folder, next to your Python files, and import it with import owlrl.
• OWL-RL documentation (most likely more detailed than you will need - check the Python Examples first
• Pages 101-106 in Blumauer & Nagy (suggested)

Lecture 8: Ontologies (OWL)

Themes:

• Basic OWL concepts
• Axioms, rules and entailments
• Programming basic OWL in Python

Mandatory readings (preliminary):

• Chapter 9-10 in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon (3rd edition)
• OWL2 Primer, sections 2-6
• VOWL: Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies
• Protégé-OWL Getting Started
• Slides from the lecture

Useful materials (cursory) (preliminary):

• OWL 2 Document Overview
• OWL 2 Quick Reference Guide
• OWL2 RDF-Based Semantics
• The OWL-RL materials from Lecture 5
• Lohmann et al. (2019): Visualizing Ontologies with VOWL. Semantic Web Journal.
• Pages 106-109 in Blumauer & Nagy (suggested)

Lecture 9: Vocabularies

Themes:

• LOD vocabularies and ontologies

Mandatory readings (preliminary):

• Chapters 10-11 in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon (3rd edition)
• Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)
• Important vocabularies / ontologies:
  • Friend of a Friend (FOAF) (if necessary follow the link to the 2004 version)
  • Event Ontology (event)
  • Time ontology in OWL (time, OWL-time)
  • geo: World Geodetic Standard (WGS) 84
  • Dublin Core (DC)
  • SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System Home Page
  • Semantic Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)
  • schema.org - Full Hierarchy
  • DBpedia Ontology
  • Provenance Interchange (PROV)
  • Creative Commons (CC) Vocabulary
  • What we expect you to know about each vocabulary is this:
    • Its purpose and where and how it can be used.
    • Its most central 3-6 classes and properties be able to explain its basic structure.
    • It is less important to get all the names and prefixes 100% right: we do not expect you to learn every little detail by heart.
• Slides from the lecture

Lecture 10: Reasoning about KGs (DL)

Themes:

• Description logic
• Decision problems
• OWL-DL

Mandatory readings (preliminary):

• Slides from last year's lecture

Useful materials (preliminary):

• Nardi & Brachman: Introduction to Description Logics. Chapter 1 in Description Logic Handbook.
• Baader & Nutt: Basic Description Logics. Chapter 2 in Description Logic Handbook.
  • Cursory, quickly gets mathematical after the introduction. In particular, sections 2.2.2.3-4 about fixpoint semantics apply to TBoxes with cyclic definitions, which we do not consider in this course. We also do not consider the stuff about rules, epistemics, and reasoning from section 2.2.5 on.
• Complexity of Reasoning in Description Logics. Powered by Evgeny Zolin. (informative)

Lecture 11: Formal ontologies (OWL-DL)

Themes:

• Advanced OWL

Mandatory readings:

• Chapters 12-13 in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon (3rd edition)
• OWL2 Primer
• Slides from last year's lecture

Useful materials (preliminary):

• OWL 2 Document Overview
• OWL 2 Quick Reference Guide (cursory)
• VOWL: Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies
• WebVOWL
• Example file demonstrating Protege-OWL reasoning with HermiT.

Owlready2 materials for the lab (preliminary):

• The section What can I do with Owlready2?
• Welcome to Owlready2's documentation!

Lecture 12: KG embeddings I

Themes:

• KG embeddings
• Link prediction
• TorchKGE

Mandatory readings (preliminary):

• Introduction to Machine Learning for Beginners ( PDF)
• Introduction to Word Embeddings and word2vec ( PDF)
• Introduction to Knowledge Graph Embeddings ( PDF)
• Slides from last year's lecture

Supplementary readings (preliminary):

• Mikolov et al’s original word2vec paper
• Bordes et al’s original TransE paper
• Welcome to TorchKGE’ s documentation! (for the labs)

Lecture 13: KG embeddings II

See readings for lecture 12.

Lecture 14: Knowledge engineering / Wrapping up

Themes:

• Knowledge engineering
• The Ontology Development 101 method

Mandatory readings (preliminary):

• Chapters 14-16 in Allemang, Hendler & Gandon (3rd edition)
• Noy & McGuinness (2001): Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology.
• Slides from an earlier lecture (old slides from 2021)

Useful materials (preliminary):

• The rest of Blumauer & Nagy (suggested)

 

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