Readings

From info216

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. Currently, the readings are not updated from 2017, so some of them may change. 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 that 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: Introduction

Themes:

  • Web of Data
  • INFO216
  • Jena
  • The programming project

Mandatory readings:

Useful materials:

Additional resources:

Lecture 2: RDF

Themes:

  • RDF
  • Programming RDF in Jena
  • Finding datasets and vocabularies for your projects

Mandatory readings:

Useful materials:

Lecture 3: SPARQL

Themes:

  • SPARQL
  • Programming SPARQL in Jena
  • SPARQL Update
  • Programming SPARQL Update in Jena

Mandatory readings:

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(supplementary, but perhaps necessary for the labs and project)

Lecture 4: Architecture

Themes:

  • Application architecture
  • Application components
  • Triple stores
  • Visualisation

Mandatory readings:

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Lecture 5: RDFS

Themes:

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

Mandatory readings:

Useful materials:

  • W3C's RDF 1.1 Semantics (cursory, except the axioms and entailments in sections 8 and 9, which we will review in the lecture)
  • Reasoners and rules engines: Jena inference support (cursory; sections 1 and 3 are relevant, but quite hard)
  • Javadoc for
    • Model (createRDFSModel)
    • InfModel (getRawModel, remove + the same methods as Model)
    • RDFS (label, comment, subClassOf, subPropertyOf, domain, range...)
    • Reasoner (but we will not use it directly)
(supplementary, but perhaps necessary for the labs and project)

Case-based examples:

Lecture 6: RDFS Plus

Themes:

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

Mandatory readings:

Useful materials:

  • Javadoc for
    • OntModel (createOntologyModel)
    • OntModelSpec (the different reasoners are outlined here (very long), OWL_MEM_RULE_INF is a good starting point)
    • OWL (defines built-in OWL resources)
    • OntClass, Individual, ObjectProperty, DatatypeProperty
(supplementary, but perhaps necessary for the labs and project)

Lecture 7: Vocabularies

Themes:

  • LOD vocabularies and ontologies

Mandatory readings:

Useful materials:

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 8 and 9: Linked Open Datasets

Themes:

  • Important Linked Open Datasets
    • DBpedia
    • LinkedGeoData
    • GeoNames
    • Wikidata
    • and others

Mandatory readings:

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Lecture 10: Services

Themes:

  • JSON, JSON-LD
  • Semantic web services
  • Semantic workflows

Mandatory readings:

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Lecture 11: OWL

Themes:

  • Advanced OWL
  • Axioms, rules and entailments
  • Programming advanced OWL in Jena

Mandatory readings:

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Lecture 12: OWL DL

Themes:

  • Description logic
  • Decision problems
  • OWL-DL
  • Programming with OWL-DL reasoners in Jena

Mandatory readings:

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Lecture 13: Ontology development

Themes:

  • Ontology Development 101 method

Mandatory readings:

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INFO216, UiB, Spring 2017-2018, Andreas L. Opdahl (c)