Readings

Textbook

The textbook 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 are either mandatory or suggested reading. Because we are moving from Java to Python this spring, the reading list is not final. We will add more materials to each lecture in the next few weeks.

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

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Lectures

Below are the mandatory and suggested readings for each lecture. All the textbook chapters are mandatory. Java-based readings are also available as an alternative to the Python-based materials.

Lecture 1: Knowledge Graphs

Themes:

• Web of Data
• INFO216
• RDFLib
• The programming project

Mandatory readings:

• Chapters 1-2 in Allemang & Hendler. In the text book.
• Tim Berners-Lee talks about the semantic web (mandatory)
• rdflib 4.2.2
  • Main page and Getting started with RDFLib

Useful materials:

• RDFLib API documentation
• RDFLib's GitHub page

Lecture 2: RDF

Themes:

• RDF
• Programming RDF in Python
• Finding datasets and vocabularies for your projects

Lecture 3: SPARQL

Themes:

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

Lecture 4: Application Architecture

Themes:

• Application components
• Triple stores
• Visualisation

Lecture 5: RDFS

Themes:

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

Lecture 6: RDFS Plus

Themes:

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

Lecture 7 and 8: Vocabularies

Themes:

• LOD vocabularies and ontologies

Lecture 9 and 10: Linked Data Resources

Themes:

• Important Linked Open Datasets
  • DBpedia
  • LinkedGeoData
  • GeoNames
  • Wikidata
  • and others

Lecture 11 and 12: Web APIs

Themes:

• JSON, JSON-LD
• Semantic web services
• Semantic workflows

Lecture 13: OWL

Themes:

• Advanced OWL
• Axioms, rules and entailments
• Programming advanced OWL in Python

Lecture 14: OWL DL

Themes:

• Description logic
• Decision problems
• OWL-DL
• Programming with OWL-DL reasoners in Python

Lecture 15: Ontology Development and Evaluation

Themes:

• Ontology Development 101 method

 

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