INFO216 Wiki

This page contains resources related to INFO216: Advanced Modelling - Modelling and Programming the Web of Data.

Outlines of the lab exercises are here.

Reading for the lectures

The text book 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.

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Introduction

• Chapters 1-2 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUrEh-nqtU>
• Jena Tutorials
• Apache Jena
• Jena JavaDoc

RDF

• Chapters 3 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• RDF 1.1 Primer
• RDF 1.1 Semantics
• RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax

RDFS

• Chapters 6-7 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• RDF Schema 1.1
• Reasoners and rules engines: Jena inference support

Architecture

• Chapter 4 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.

Services

• JSON Syntax
• Section 2 in JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API
• JSON-LD: Introductory Material (videos)

SPARQL

• Chapter 5 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• SPARQL 1.1 Query Language
• SPARQL 1.1 Update Language
• SPARQL 1.1 Overview

Visualisation

• Shneiderman, Ben (1996): The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations. Paper. [1]
• Heer & Shneiderman (2012): Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis - A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations. Paper. [2]
• Skjæveland 2012: Sgvizler. Paper. [3]
• Sgvizler 0.6
• VOWL: Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies
• WebVOWL

RDFS Plus

• Chapter 8 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.

Vocabularies

• Chapters 9-10 and 13 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)

Linked Open Data (LOD)

• LODstats
• The Linking Open Data cloud diagram
• State of the LOD Cloud 2014

Resources

• Dbpedia
• Wikidata
• GeoNames
• WordNet - A lexical database for English

OWL

• Chapters 11-12 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• OWL2 Overview
• OWL2 Primer
• OWL2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax
• Jena Ontology API

OWL DL

• Nardi & Brachman: Introduction to Description Logics. Chapter 1 in Description Logic Handbook. Paper. [4]
• Baader & Nutt: Basic Description Logics. Chapter 2 in Description Logic Handbook. Paper. [5]
• Complexity of Reasoning in Description Logics [6]

Ontology development

• Chapters 14-16 in Allemang & Hendler. In text book.
• Noy & McGuinness (2001): Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology. Paper. [7]
• Sicilia et al. (2012): Empirical findings on ontology metrics. Paper. [8]