Readings
Reading for the lectures
The text book 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.
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Introduction (tentative)
- Chapters 1-2 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
- <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUrEh-nqtU>
- Jena Tutorials
- Apache Jena
- Jena JavaDoc
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
RDFS (tentative)
- Chapters 6-7 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
- RDF Schema 1.1
- Reasoners and rules engines: Jena inference support
Architecture (tentative)
- Chapter 4 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
Services (tentative)
- JSON Syntax
- Section 2 in JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API
- JSON-LD: Introductory Material (videos)
SPARQL (tentative)
- Chapter 5 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
- SPARQL 1.1 Query Language
- SPARQL 1.1 Update Language
- SPARQL 1.1 Overview
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
RDFS Plus (tentative)
- Chapter 8 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
Vocabularies (tentative)
- Chapters 9-10 and 13 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
- Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)
Linked Open Data (LOD) (tentative)
- LODstats
- The Linking Open Data cloud diagram
- State of the LOD Cloud 2014
Resources (tentative)
- Dbpedia
- Wikidata
- GeoNames
- WordNet - A lexical database for English
OWL (tentative)
- Chapters 11-12 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
- OWL2 Overview
- OWL2 Primer
- OWL2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax
- Jena Ontology API
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]