Readings
Textbook
- New textbook in the Spring semester 2021 is The Knowledge Graph Cookbook - Recipes that Work, by Andreas Blumauer and Helmut Nagy (April 16, 2020). mono/monochrom. The whole book is mandatory reading.
- The old textbook in INFO216 was 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. It is still recommended reading, but not mandatory.
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.
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Lectures
Below are the mandatory and suggested readings for each lecture. All the textbook chapters in Blumauer & Nagy are mandatory, whereas the chapters in Allemang & Hendler are suggested. Java-based readings are also available as an alternative to the Python-based materials.
Lecture 1: Knowledge Graphs
Themes:
- Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
- Organisation of INFO216
Mandatory readings:
- Pages 27-55 and 105-122 in Blumauer & Nagy (mandatory)
- Tim Berners-Lee talks about the semantic web (mandatory)
- Slides from the lecture
Useful materials:
- Chapters 1-2 in Allemang & Hendler (suggested)
Lecture 2: RDF
Themes:
- RDF
- Programming RDF in Python
- The group project
Mandatory readings:
- Pages 25-28, 92-100, 125-128, and 164-167 in Blumauer & Nagy (mandatory)
- W3C's RDF 1.1 Primer (mandatory)
- rdflib 5.0.0 materials:
- Main page
- Getting started with RDFLib
- Loading and saving RDF
- Creating RDF triples
- Navigating Graphs
- Utilities and convenience functions
- Slides from the lecture
Useful materials:
- Chapter 3 in Allemang & Hendler (suggested)
- RDFLib API documentation (useful for the labs and group project)
- RDFLib's GitHub page
- W3C's RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax (cursory)
- RDF Data Visualization tools
Lecture 3: SPARQL
Themes:
- SPARQL queries
- SPARQL Update
- Programming SPARQL and SPARQL Update in Python
Mandatory readings:
- For example pages 54-55, 133 in Blumauer & Nagy (mandatory)
- Chapter 5 in Allemang & Hendler (suggested)
- SPARQL 1.1 Cheat Sheet
- SPARQL 1.1 Update Language (Sections 1-3 are obligatory)
- rdflib 5.0.0 materials:
- Querying with SPARQL
Useful materials:
- SPARQL 1.1 Query Language
- SPARQL 1.1 Update Language (the rest of it)
- SPARQL 1.1 Overview
- RDFLib API documentation (same as Lecture 1)
Lecture 4: Tools and services
Themes:
- Application architecture
- Triple stores and Blazegraph
- Wikidata and Wikidata Query Service
- Web APIs and JSON-LD
- Serialisation formats
Mandatory readings:
- Pages ... in Blumauer & Nagy (mandatory)
- Chapter 4 in Allemang & Hendler (suggested)
- Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)
- Blazegraph:
- Introduction - About Blazegraph
- Getting started
- SPARQL Extensions - Full Text Search, GeoSpatial Search, Refication Done Right
- Slides from the lecture
- Wikidata
- JSON Syntax (mandatory)
- Section 2 in W3C's JSON-LD 1.1 Processing Algorithms and API (mandatory)
Useful materials:
- JSON for Linked Data (supplementary)
- What is Linked Data? Short video introduction to Linked Data by Manu Sporny
- What is JSON-LD? Short video introduction to JSON-LD by Manu Sporny
Useful materials:
- Blazegraph
- The rest of it...
- Skjæveland 2012: Sgvizler. Paper.
- Sgvizler 0.6
- Lohmann et al. (2019): Visualizing Ontologies with VOWL. Semantic Web Journal. Paper.
- VOWL: Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies
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