SWE-HT2011

Lecture: Semantic Web

Anwendungssysteme im E-Business - Semantic Web-basierter E-Commerce

Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany, HT 2011

The lecture is relevant for the Master's degree program in WOW.

Contents 1 General Information 2 Exam 3 News 4 Materials 4.1 Books and Papers 4.2 Links and Specifications 5 Lecture 5.1 Slides 5.2 Video Recordings 6 Tutorial 7 Course-related Material

General Information

• Lecture: Tuesdays, 09:45 – 11:15, 36/1134
• Tutorial: Mondays, 11:30 – 12:15, 36/1134
• Tutorial Exception: Monday 10/24 will be replaced by a double-tutorial on 10/31, starting on 10:30
• No lecture on Nov 29, 2011. The lecture for unit 9 will be on Tuesday, Dec 6, 2011, 11:30 - 13:00, room 36/1134

Exam

• Style: Written exam, 60 minutes
• Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
• Time: 10:00 a.m. (to be confirmed)
• Room: 36/1134

Additional information:

• Please be prepared to answer both
  • theoretical / background questions on the basic aspects, relevance, dependencies of the various topics and
  • precise technical questions on the function of componentes of the Web and the Semantic Web and the core (!) syntax of the most important languages, like Turtle, RDFa, Microdata, and SPARQL.

• Comprehensive modeling or code examples will not be covered in the exam, but you must have firmly understood the basics.
• Additional materials (computers, smartphones, books, hand-outs and any other documents) are not required and thus also not allowed during the exam.
• The exam will be a traditional,paper-based exam (no online or computer-based parts).

News

• 2011-12-20: All remaining videos and slides have been added.
  

Materials

Books and Papers

• Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009, http://www.semantic-web-book.org/
  • Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen: A Semantic Web Primer, 2nd edition, The MIT Press (2008).
  • Toby Segaran, Colin Evans, Jamie Taylor: Programming the Semantic Web, O'Reilly (2009).
• Dean Allemang, James Hendler: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, 2nd Edition (!), Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
• Mike Uschold, Michael Grüninger: Ontologies: Principles, Methods and Applications (1996), Knowledge Engineering Review, PDF available here (Google for the title if you encounter difficulties; there are plenty of copies on the Web) 
• Hepp, Martin: Ontologies: State of the Art, Business Potential, and Grand Challenges, in: Hepp, M.; De Leenheer, P.; de Moor, A.; Sure,Y. (Eds.): Ontology Management: Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, and Business Applications, ISBN 978-0-387-69899-1, Springer, 2007, pp. 3-22. 
• Hepp, Martin: GoodRelations: An Ontology for Describing Products and Services Offers on the Web[1], Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2008), September 29 - October 3, 2008, Acitrezza, Italy, Springer LNCS, Vol. 5268, pp. 332-347. 
  
  
  

Links and Specifications

• Ontologien — Enzyklopaedie der Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Semantic Web - PROZEUS Wiki
• Useful Semantic Web-related links
• Resource Description Framework (RDF): RDF Primer
• RDF Schema (RDFS): Specification
• Web Ontology Language (OWL): OWL Features

• SPARQL
  • SPARQL Query
  • SPARQL Protocol
• RDF in Attributes (RDFa)
  • RDFa Syntax
  • RDFa
• GoodRelations: GoodRelations Main Page

• Friend-Of-A-Friend (FOAF): FOAF Main Page
• Schema.org: Main page

• Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC): SIOC Main Page
• eClassOWL: eClassOWL Main Page
• Microdata: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-microdata-rdf-20120308/

Lecture

Slides

Access to the slides requires a username & password, as given in class.

• Unit 1: Introduction
• Unit 2: The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Unit 3: RDF Syntaxes in Action (no slides available, see video)
• Unit 4: Resources and their Identification on the World Wide Web
• Unit 5: Publishing RDF Data on the Web: RDF Files, RDFa and Microdata, and SPARQL Endpoints
• Unit 6: Consuming and Publishing RDF Data
• Unit 7: Global Schemas for a Web of Data: What Makes For A Good Ontology?
• Unit 8: Semantic Web-based E-Commerce (I)
• Unit 9: Semantic Web-based E-Commerce (II)
• Unit 10: Exercises - No slides available
• Unit 11: Exam Review (no extra slides)
  

Video Recordings

Access to the videos requires a username & password, as given in class.

• Unit 1
• Unit 2
• Unit 3
• Unit 4
• Unit 5
• Unit 6
• Unit 7
• Unit 8
• Unit 9
• Unit 10
• Unit 11 - no video recording (extended GoodRelations exercise)
  

Tutorial

Tutor: Uwe Stoll

This section will contain materials for the tutorial complementing the lecture.

2011-10-11 - Tutorial 1: Exercise Sheet PDF (1 page) - Spezifität, Auffindbarkeit und das Web of Linked Data
2011-10-18 - Tutorial 2: Exercise Sheet PDF (1 page) Resource Description Framework
2011-10-31 - Tutorial 3: Exercise Sheet PDF (1 page) URIs
2011-11-07 - Tutorial 5: Exercise Sheet PDF (2 pages) RDFa & Microdata
2011-11-21 - Tutorial 6: Exercise Sheet PDF (1 page) SPARQL
2011-12-05 - Tutorial 7: Exercise Sheet PDF (1 page) What Makes for a Good Ontology?
2011-12-12 - Tutorial 8: Exercise Sheet PDF (1 page) Exercises with GoodRelations

Course-related Material

The Semantic Web Landscape: A Practical Introduction