UMBC CMSC 491/691s Spring 2009
Special Topics: The Semantic Web

Schedule

Draft subject to change
date
day
Topic To do
1/26
Mon
Introduction read: The Semantic Web, Sci Am, May 2001 ( pdf )
do: assignment one
ppt: Introduction to the Semantic Web ( pdf )
1/28
Wed
Introduction read: SWP Chapter 1
read: Wikipedia Semantic Web article
view: Intro to the SW, part 1
2/2
Mon
Applications, XML

read: SWP 2.1-2.4
read: The Semantic Web in Action, Sci Am, 2007
read: Web 3.0 Emerging
view: 2008 Semantic Web Challenge
ppt: Applications ( pdf )
ppt: XML ( pdf )
do: assignment two
due: assignment one

2/4
Wed
XML read: SWP Chapter 2
ppt: XML ( pdf )
try: XMLSpy
2/9
Mon
XML
JSON
read: Introducing JSON
read: Wikipedia JSON article
2/11
Wed
RDF
read: SWP 61-83
read: Creating a Science of the Web
read: Web Science (CACM)
ppt: RDF Syntax ( pdf )
due: assignment two
2/16
Mon
RDF/RDFS

read: SWP 84-106
read: The shortest path to the future web
ppt: RDF Schema ( pdf )
onto: rdf namespace
onto: rdfs namespace
ppt: CWM notes ( pdf )
do: assignment Three

2/18
Wed
RDFS read: SWP 109-137
read: N3Logic: A Logical Framework For the World
Wide Web

ppt: RDF Semantics ( pdf )
ex: RDFS rules in N3
try: CWM
slides: Semantic Web tutorial using N3
2/23
Mon
OWL

read: Experience with N3 rules
ppt: OWL ( pdf )

2/25
Wed
DL 101

read: SWP 138-150
view:
Intro to OWL ( ppt )
ex:
OWL rules in N3

3/2
Mon
DL 102

read: SWP 138-150
due: assignment Three

3/4
Wed
OWL 3

ppt: DL ( pdf )
read: An Introduction to Description Logics
read: Complexity of reasoning in Description Logics

3/9
Mon
OWL 4

try: Protege
try: RACER
read: Ontology Development 101
read: OWL Pizzas
read: getting started protege OWL 4.x
view: Manchester OWL syntax
ppt: protegeOWL1 ( pdf )
ppt: protegeOWL2 ( pdf )

3/11
Wed
Beyond OWL

ppt: OWL abstract syntax ( pdf )
read: OWL 1.1 Web Ontology Language
read: OWL Web Ontology Language Guide

3/16
Mon
Spring break  
3/18
Wed
Spring break

 

3/23
Mon
Rules read: SWP 151-178
ppt: Rules ( pdf )
3/25
Wed
Rules: SWRL

do: asssigment 4
read: SWRL: A Semantic Web Rule Language
read: Supporting Rule System Interoperability on the SW with SWRL
read: Semantic web architecture: Stack or two towers

3/30
Mon
presentations... do: asssigment 4
read: presentations
4/1
Wed
SPARQL

14 rules.ppt
16sparql.ppt

4/6
Mon

Provenance

Sesame

Provenance -- Curt Tilmes

Sesame -- Gary Singh

4/8
Wed

Linked data

DBpedia

Linked Data -- Scott Barasch

DBpedia -- Krishnamurthy Koduvayur

4/13
Mon

Freebase

Semantic Media Wiki

Freebase -- Tejas Lagvankar

Semantic Media Wiki -- Shivvasangari Subramani

4/15
Wed

Search

Ping the Semantic Web

Search -- Varish Mulwad

Ping the semantic Web -- Shantanu Fauji

4/20
Mon
Triple stores

Triple stores: Jena -- Luke Georgalas

Triple stores: Virtuoso -- Michael Povolotsky

4/22
Wed

RDFa

Microformats

RDFa and GRDDL -- Anand Karandikar

Microfotmats -- Vikrant Nandakumar

4/27
Mon
Wikitology

read: Using Wikitology for Cross-Document Entity Coreference Resolution
ppt: wikitology.ppt

 

4/29
Wed
Big ontologies

Wordnet ontology -- Robert Lehman

5/4
Mon
Ontology mapping

Ontology mapping 1 -- Kunal Narsinghani and Ashwini Lahane

5/6
Wed
Uncertainty

CYC ontology -- Patrick McCauley

Uncertainty and the semantic web -- Jenifer Sleeman

5/11
Mon
SW reasoning I

read: SWP Chapter 5

5/13
Wed
SW reasoning II read:
   
 

read: RIF Basic Logic Dialect
read: RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility

ppt: rules.ppt

?//?
?
Final exam