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HTW Berlin
Fachbereich 4
Internationaler Studiengang
Internationale Medieninformatik (Master)
Semantic Modeling
Summer Term 2010

Tentative Schedule

My schedules are - as always - tentative and subject to change. If you have topics you would like to see addressed - do so at your earliest convienience.

Week
Class Meeting

Tuesday
15.30-17.00
WH C 537L
Exercise
due as indicated
Reading Assignment to be done before class
15
13.
04.

Session 1
Introduction to Semantic Modelling and the Semantic Web

Lab 1:
GeoNames

due week 16

Purchase a book on semantic modelling, preferably Semantic Web Programming
16
20.
04.

Session 2
What is the Semantic Web supposed to be? What can I do with it?

Lab 2:
Hello Semantic World Web

due week 17

Read T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, and O. Lassila. The Semantic Web. Scientific American 284 (May 2001): 34:43

Will the Semantic Web Change Education?
Kendall Clark, Bijan Parsia, and Jim Hendler

 

17 27.
04.

Session 3
Modelling Information with RDF

Lab 3: RDF

due week 18

Read the RDF Primer

18
04.
05.

Session 4
Introduction to Ontologies

Lab 4: My First Ontology

due week 20

Read A. Johannes Pretorius, Ontologies - Introduction and Overview. From an unpublished Master's Thesis.

Another good source is Natalya F. Noy  and Deborah L. McGuinness, Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology

19 11.
05.

Session 5
Basic OWL

 

Browse through W3C Semantic Web

I will be using
Allemang & Hendler, Chapter 9

Antoniou and van Harmelen have some nice slides

Semanticweb.org

20
18.
05.

Session 6
Counting and sets in OWL /Finding problems in an ontology

Lab 5: OWL Pizzeria

due week 21

 
21
25.
05.

Session 7
OWL inference

Lab 6: Ontology Queries
due week 23
I will be using
Hebeler Chapter 5
22
01.
06.

Session 8
Adding rules to OWL

This session has been be moved!

   
23
08.
06.

Session 10
Logic


Group 1
Steffen Mücke, Jurek Schie, and Thomas Klein

Read Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble. Introduction to Logic especially chapter 5

Session 9 (17.15 -??, WH C 442)
Doris Maassen, Neofonie
"Projekt Alexandria" (Informationsextraktion, halb-automatischer Aufbau von Ontologien, Question Answering)
Nachsitzung in der QBar.
   
24
15.
06.

Session 11
Non-Monotonic Reasoning

Group 2
Lukas Gotter and Patrick Wieczorek

Check out some of the papers linked to by Seth Russell

Subchapters 5.4 - 5.8 of Antoniou and van Harmelen
Read Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, entry Non-Monotonic Reasoning

This is also a nice paper: Non-monotonic Inference - Keith Frankish

 

 25
22.
06.
No class, I am giving a paper in England    
 26
29.
06.

Session 12
Ontology Alignment

Group 3
Stefanie Grünewald, Brian Hoffmann, and Wirayudha Rohandi
We will be using
Hebeler Chapter 10 / FriendTracker
27
06.
07.

Session 13
Microformats

Group 4
Katrin Köhler, Lusia Erldorfer, and Doreen Matschuk
We will be using
Hebeler Chapter 11
28
13.
07.

Session 14
B2C Electronic Commerce

Group 5
Axel Freudiger, Erik Lippmann, and David Crome
Read RFC 3305
Read Minghua He, Nicholas R. Jenni ngs, and Ho-Fung Leung. On Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Vol. 15, No. 4, July/August 2003 P. 985-1003
29 20.
07.

Session 15
Building Agents

Group 6
Raoul Jaeckel and André Stüker
Read J. Hendler, Agents and the Semantic Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems 16 (March-April 2001): 30-37
29
20.
07.
Final session
17.15-18.45
Outlook on Semantic Modelling
(C 352 if necessary)
  Read the newest paper from Hendler: Cognitive Extension and the Web


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Questions or comments: <weberwu@htw-berlin.de>

Last Change:  2010-06-17 17:13