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HTW Berlin
Fachbereich 4
Internationaler Studiengang
Internationale Medieninformatik (Master)
Semantic Modeling
Summer Term 2011

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
13.45-15.15
WH C 442
Exercise
due as indicated
Reading Assignment to be done before class
14
07.
04.

Session 1
Introduction to Semantic Modelling and the Semantic Web

Lab 1:
GeoNames

due week 15

Purchase a book on semantic modelling, preferably Semantic Web Programming
15
14.
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 16

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

 

16
21.
04.

Session 3
Modelling Information with RDF

Lab 3: RDF

due week 17

Read the RDF Primer

17 28.
04.

Session 4
Introduction to Ontologies

Lab 4: My First Ontology

due week 19

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 From an unpublished Master's Thesis.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

I've uploaded
Ian Horrocks. 2008. Ontologies and the semantic web. Commun. ACM 51, 12 (December 2008), 58-67. DOI=10.1145/1409360.1409377 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409360.1409377 to the Moodle area!

18
05.
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

19 12.
05.

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

Lab 5: OWL Pizzeria

due week 20

 
20
19.
05.

Session 7
OWL inference

Lab 6: Ontology Queries
due week 23
I will be using
Hebeler Chapter 5
21
26.
05.

Session 8
Doris Maassen und Martin Gerlach, Neofonie

  • Bericht vom 3. Leipziger Semantic Web Tag
  • "Projekt Alexandria" (Informationsextraktion, halb-automatischer Aufbau von Ontologien, Question Answering)
  • Nachsitzung in der QBar
   
22
02.
06.
Ascension Day    
23
09.
06.
Session 9
Applications of Semantic Web
Group 1
René Corinth and Natalia Ukhanova
 
24
16.
06.

Session 10
Logic


Group 2
Norbert Schröder and Maria Goltsova

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

 25
23.
06.

Session 11
Non-Monotonic Reasoning

DWW

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

 

 26
30.
06.

Session 12
Ontology Alignment

Group 4
Katrin Bäwert and Sabine Claßnitz
We will be using
Hebeler Chapter 10 / FriendTracker
27
07.
07.

Session 13
Microformats

Group 5
Alexander Kluge and Tien Nguyen
We will be using
Hebeler Chapter 11
28
14.
07.

Session 14
B2C Electronic Commerce

Group 6
Dominik Herb and Benjamin Oertel

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 21.
07.

Session 15
Building Agents

Group 7
Thomas Puppe and Tommy Krüger
Read J. Hendler, Agents and the Semantic Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems 16 (March-April 2001): 30-37
Read the newest paper from Hendler: Cognitive Extension and the Web


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Last Change:  2011-06-09 13:30