Readings

From info216

Textbooks

Main course book:

  • Dean Allemang, James Hendler & Fabien Gandon (2020). Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, Effective Modeling for Linked Data, RDFS and OWL (Third Edition). ISBN: 9781450376143, PDF ISBN: 9781450376150, Hardcover ISBN: 9781450376174, DOI: 10.1145/3382097. The whole book is mandatory reading.

Supplementary text book (not mandatory):

  • Andreas Blumauer and Helmut Nagy (2020). The Knowledge Graph Cookbook - Recipes that Work. mono/monochrom. ISBN-10: ‎3902796707, ISBN-13: 978-3902796707.

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 Allemang, Hendler & Gandon are mandatory, whereas the chapters in Blumauer & Nagy are suggested.

To be updated - the readings for the later lectures are not yet final for Spring 2022.


Lecture 1: Introduction to knowledge Graphs

Themes:

  • Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
  • Organisation of INFO216

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Lecture 2: Representing KGs (RDF)

Themes:

  • RDF
  • Programming RDF in Python

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Lecture 3: Querying and updating KGs (SPARQL)

Themes:

  • SPARQL queries
  • SPARQL Update
  • Programming SPARQL and SPARQL Update in Python

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Lecture 4: Storing and sharing KGs

Themes:

  • Triple stores and Blazegraph
  • Web APIs and JSON-LD
  • Other serialisation formats

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Lecture 5: Open Knowledge Graphs

Themes:

  • The LOD cloud
  • Important open KGs (LOD datasets)
    • Wikidata
    • DBpedia
    • the GDELT project
    • EventKG
    • GeoNames
    • WordNet
    • BabelNet
    • and others

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Lecture 6: Enterprise Knowledge Graphs

Themes:

  • Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
  • Google’s Knowledge Graph
  • Amazon’s Product Graphs
  • News Hunter’s infrastructure and architecture

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Lecture 7: Rules (RDFS)

Themes:

  • RDFS
  • Axioms, rules and entailment
  • Programming RDFS in Python

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Lecture 8: Ontologies (OWL)

Themes:

  • Basic OWL concepts
  • Axioms, rules and entailments
  • Programming basic OWL in Python

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Lecture 9: Vocabularies

Themes:

  • LOD vocabularies and ontologies

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Lecture 10: Reasoning about KGs (DL)

Themes:

  • Description logic
  • Decision problems
  • OWL-DL

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Lecture 11: Formal ontologies (OWL-DL)

Themes:

  • Advanced OWL

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Lecture 12: KG embeddings

Themes:

  • KG embeddings
  • Link prediction
  • TorchKGE

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Lecture 13: Knowledge Engineering

Themes:

  • Knowledge engineering
  • The Ontology Development 101 method

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Useful materials:

  • The rest of Blumauer & Nagy (suggested)

Lecture 14: Wrapping up

 

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