Revision as of 07:50, 15 January 2020

Text book

The text book 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 is either mandatory or suggested reading. The reading list is not final and will change a little as the course progresses.

Make sure you download the papers and web sites in good time before the exam. That way you are safe if a site becomes unavailable or somehow damaged the last few days before the exam.

Note: to download some of the papers, you need to be inside UiB's network. Either use a computer directly on the UiB network or connect to your UiB account with VPN if you are elsewhere.

Finally, the lectures and lectures notes are also part of the curriculum.

Lectures

Below are the mandatory and suggested readings for each lecture. All the text-book chapters are mandatory.

Lecture 1: Knowledge Graphs

Themes:

Web of Data
INFO216
Jena
The programming project

Mandatory readings:

Chapters 1-2 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
Tim Berners-Lee talks about the semantic web (mandatory)
Apache architecture overview (mandatory)
The core RDF API (mandatory)
An introduction to RDF and the Jena RDF API (mandatory)
Slides from the lecture
- Additional slides from the lecture

Useful materials:

Welcome to Apache Jena (useful starting page)
Apache Jena main page (useful starting page)
Jena tutorials (useful starting page)
Package org.apache.jena.rdf.model (supplementary, but necessary for the labs and project - lab 1 and the lecture notes lists the classes and methods you should look at)

Additional resources:

PechaKucha: How to Create a PechaKucha Presentation
Elevator pitch:Some tips on how to plan your elevator pitch and an example

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 Jena

Lecture 15: Ontology Development and Evaluation

Themes:

Ontology Development 101 method

INFO216, UiB, 2017-2020, Andreas L. Opdahl (c)

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 Themes:
 * RDF
-* Programming RDF in Jena
+* Programming RDF in Python
 * Finding datasets and vocabularies for your projects
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 Mandatory readings:
 * Chapter 3 in Allemang & Hendler. ''In text book.''
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 * [https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/ W3C's RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax] (cursory)
 ** [https://jena.apache.org/documentation/javadoc/jena/ Package org.apache.jena.rdf.model] (supplementary, but necessary for the labs and project)
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 ==Lecture 3: SPARQL==
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 Themes:
 * SPARQL
-* Programming SPARQL in Jena
 * SPARQL Update
-* Programming SPARQL Update in Jena
+* Programming SPARQL and SPARQL Update in Python
+<!--
 Mandatory readings:
 * Chapter 5 in Allemang & Hendler. ''In text book.''
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 ** UpdateFactory, UpdateAction
 : (supplementary, but perhaps necessary for the labs and project)
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 ==Lecture 4: Application Architecture==
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 * Visualisation
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 Mandatory readings:
 * Chapter 4 in Allemang & Hendler. ''In text book.''
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 * [[:File:LohmannEtAl2016-VisualizingOntologiesWithVOWL.pdf | Lohmann et al. (2019): Visualizing Ontologies with VOWL. ''Semantic Web Journal.'']] ''Paper.''
 * [http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/ VOWL: Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies]
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 <!--
 * [[:File:S07-Visualisation-4.pdf | Slides from the lecture]]
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 * RDFS
 * Axioms, rules and entailment
-* Programming RDFS in Jena
+* Programming RDFS in Python
+<!--
 Mandatory readings:
 * Chapters 6-7 in Allemang & Hendler. ''In text book.''
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 Case-based examples:
 * [[:File:S5_RDFS_Example.pdf | RDFS Eating vegetables case]]
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 ==Lecture 6: RDFS Plus==
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 * Basic OWL concepts
 * Axioms, rules and entailments
-* Programming basic OWL in Jena
+* Programming basic OWL in Python
+<!--
 Mandatory readings:
 * Chapter 8 in Allemang & Hendler. ''In text book.''
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 OWL helpful clarifications:
 * [[:File:OWL-example_I.pdf | owl:InverseFuctionalProperty vs owl:propertyDisjointWith]]
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 ==Lecture 7 and 8: Vocabularies==
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 * LOD vocabularies and ontologies
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 Mandatory readings:
 * Chapters 9-10 and 13 in Allemang & Hendler. ''In text book.''
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 ** [http://www.musicontology.com/ Music Ontology (mo)]
 : '''This is what we expect you to know about each vocabulary:''' Its purpose and where and how it can be used. You should know its most central 3-6 classes and properties be able to explain its basic structure. It is less important to get all the names and prefixes 100% right: we do not expect you to learn every little detail by heart. ''schema.org'' is less important because you have already had about it in INFO116.
+-->
 ==Lecture 9 and 10: Linked Data Resources==
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 ** and others
+<!--
 Mandatory readings:
 * [[:File:BizerHeathBernersLee-LinkedData2009-TheStorySoFar.pdf | Bizer, C., Heath, T., & Berners-Lee, T. (2009). Linked data-the story so far. Semantic services, interoperability and web applications: emerging concepts, 205-227.]]
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 * [https://wordnet.princeton.edu/ WordNet - A lexical database for English]
 * [http://live.babelnet.org/about BabelNet]
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 ==Lecture 11 and 12: Web APIs==
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 * Semantic workflows
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 Mandatory readings:
 * [http://json.org/ JSON Syntax] (mandatory)
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 ** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_xzT5eF5Q What is Linked Data?] Short video introduction to Linked Data by Manu Sporny
 ** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioCbTo3C-4 What is JSON-LD?] Short video introduction to JSON-LD by Manu Sporny
+-->
 ==Lecture 13: OWL==
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 * Advanced OWL
 * Axioms, rules and entailments
-* Programming advanced OWL in Jena
+* Programming advanced OWL in Python
+<!--
 Mandatory readings:
 * Chapters 11-12 in Allemang & Hendler. ''In text book.''
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 * [http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/webvowl/index.html#sioc WebVOWL] (cursory)
 * [https://jena.apache.org/documentation/ontology/ Jena Ontology API] (we will most likely not go into this) (cursory)
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 ==Lecture 14: OWL DL==
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 * Programming with OWL-DL reasoners in Jena
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 Mandatory readings:
 * [[:File:S12-OWL-DL-10.pdf | Slides from the lecture]]
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 ** ''Cursory'', quickly gets mathematical after the introduction. In particular, sections 2.2.2.3-4 about fixpoint semantics apply to TBoxes with cyclic definitions, which we do not consider in this course. We also do not consider the stuff about rules, epistemics, and reasoning from section 2.2.5 on.
 * [http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ezolin/dl/ Complexity of Reasoning in Description Logics. Powered by Evgeny Zolin.] (informative)
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 ==Lecture 15: Ontology Development and Evaluation==
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 * Ontology Development 101 method
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 Mandatory readings:
 * Chapters 14-16 in Allemang & Hendler. ''In text book.''
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 Useful materials:
 * [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095741741101640X Sicilia et al. (2012): Empirical findings on ontology metrics.] ''Paper.''  (cursory)
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 <div class="credits" style="text-align: right; direction: ltr; margin-left: 1em;">''INFO216, UiB, 2017-2020, Andreas L. Opdahl (c)''</div>