FDA102 Semantic Web

Lectures:

20 hours, 10 x 2h

Recommended for

Graduate students, undergraduates in third and fourth year.

The course was last given:

New course

Goals

The goal of the course is to present underlying concepts and to survey preliminary results and ongoing research in the Semantic Web effort http://www.semanticweb.org/

Organization

This is a seminar course. The course material will be presented by the students and discussed in the classroom. The topic assignment will be done at the information meeting. The speakers at each seminar have to submit the (preferably Powerpoint ) slides one week in advance before the presentation.

Contents

The topics include

• The objectives of the Semantic Web
• The concept of ontology and the role of ontologies in the Semantic Web.
• Representation of Data on the Web with XML
• Semantic Web languages (DAML, RDF, RDFS, RuleML).

Literature

S. Abiteboul, P. Buneman, D. Suciu ...m Data on the Web.

Morgan Kaufmann From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML} 2000

D. Fensel ...m Ontologies: a Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management

and Electronic Commerce} Springer Verlag 2001

Final list will be announced in December 2001.

Teachers

Uwe Assmann, Jan Maluszynski

Examiner

Uwe Assmann, Jan Maluszynski

Schedule

The information meeting will be held week 6. The seminars start week 9.

Examination

Presentation of the course material at the seminars, preparation of the presentation slides in groups, oral examination.

Credit

4 credits

Comments

This course should be taken by every software engineer. In the future, semantic languages will steer software and document processing.

The participation is limited to 20 students.