Readings
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
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