Web-Based Knowledge Representation Course

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Course description

The Web offers a great opportunity for using well-established and new knowledge representation techniques. The aim in using these is to make web pages intended for human users accessible for machines as well. Such a web would enable a set of intelligent services such as: search-engines, information filters, adaptive web-sites a.s.o. This course presents the technology that enables the new generation of the web. It presents knowledge modeling concepts (ontologies) and knowledge representation languages developed for the web (XML, RDF, OWL). We investigate the increasing expressiveness of these languages and point out issues for future research in this field.

Lecturers

Course Material

Lectures and slides

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The Semantic Web: an introduction + Ontologies I
SW data and schema with RDF and RDF Schema
SW ontologies with OWL
Querying RDF(S) with SPARQL
Transforming XML
Semantic Web and Cultural Heritage

Textbook

The overall course is based on A Semantic Web Primer by Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen. See

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11477 (MIT Press book page) and
http://www.semanticwebprimer.org (more slides and teaching material).