	UMBC CMSC 491/691s Spring 2009 Special Topics: The Semantic Web
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date	day	Topic	To do
1/26	Mon	Introduction	read: The Semantic Web, Sci Am, May 2001 ( pdf ) do: assignment one ppt: Introduction to the Semantic Web ( pdf )
1/28	Wed	Introduction	read: SWP Chapter 1 read: Wikipedia Semantic Web article view: Intro to the SW, part 1
2/2	Mon	Applications, XML	read: SWP 2.1-2.4 read: The Semantic Web in Action, Sci Am, 2007 read: Web 3.0 Emerging view: 2008 Semantic Web Challenge ppt: Applications ( pdf ) ppt: XML ( pdf ) do: assignment two due: assignment one
2/4	Wed	XML	read: SWP Chapter 2 ppt: XML ( pdf ) try: XMLSpy
2/9	Mon	XML JSON	read: Introducing JSON read: Wikipedia JSON article
2/11	Wed	RDF	read: SWP 61-83 read: Creating a Science of the Web read: Web Science (CACM) ppt: RDF Syntax ( pdf ) due: assignment two
2/16	Mon	RDF/RDFS	read: SWP 84-106 read: The shortest path to the future web ppt: RDF Schema ( pdf ) onto: rdf namespace onto: rdfs namespace ppt: CWM notes ( pdf ) do: assignment Three
2/18	Wed	RDFS	read: SWP 109-137 read: N3Logic: A Logical Framework For the World Wide Web ppt: RDF Semantics ( pdf ) ex: RDFS rules in N3 try: CWM slides: Semantic Web tutorial using N3
2/23	Mon	OWL	read: Experience with N3 rules ppt: OWL ( pdf )
2/25	Wed	DL 101	read: SWP 138-150 view: Intro to OWL ( ppt ) ex: OWL rules in N3
3/2	Mon	DL 102	read: SWP 138-150 due: assignment Three
3/4	Wed	OWL 3	ppt: DL ( pdf ) read: An Introduction to Description Logics read: Complexity of reasoning in Description Logics
3/9	Mon	OWL 4	try: Protege try: RACER read: Ontology Development 101 read: OWL Pizzas read: getting started protege OWL 4.x view: Manchester OWL syntax ppt: protegeOWL1 ( pdf ) ppt: protegeOWL2 ( pdf )
3/11	Wed	Beyond OWL	ppt: OWL abstract syntax ( pdf ) read: OWL 1.1 Web Ontology Language read: OWL Web Ontology Language Guide
3/16	Mon	Spring break
3/18	Wed	Spring break
3/23	Mon	Rules	read: SWP 151-178 ppt: Rules ( pdf )
3/25	Wed	Rules: SWRL	do: asssigment 4 read: SWRL: A Semantic Web Rule Language read: Supporting Rule System Interoperability on the SW with SWRL read: Semantic web architecture: Stack or two towers
3/30	Mon	presentations...	do: asssigment 4 read: presentations
4/1	Wed	SPARQL	14 rules.ppt 16sparql.ppt
4/6	Mon	Provenance Sesame	Provenance -- Curt Tilmes read: A proof markup language for semantic web services slides: Semantic Web Provenance Sesame -- Gary Singh explore: OpenRDF.org site read: Sesame: An Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF Data and Schema Information ppt: Sesame code: Sem_Present.java, short_people.rdf
4/8	Wed	Linked data DBpedia	Linked Data -- Scott Barasch explore: linkeddata.org site view: ISWC tutorial, How to Publish Linked Data on the Web read: Wikipedia article on linked data read: Linked Data on the Web, Bizer at al., Proceedings WWW2008, Beijing, China read: How to publish linked on the Web ppt: Linked data DBpedia -- Krishnamurthy Koduvayur explore: dbpedia.org site try: DBpedia lookup service read: DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data. Auer et al., ISWC 2007. (video of talk) ppt: dbpedia
4/13	Mon	Freebase Semantic Media Wiki	Freebase -- Tejas Lagvankar explore:Freebase site view: Freebase talk at ISWC 2008 read:Freebase wikipedia article read: Freebase: a collaboratively created graph database for structuring human knowledge, Bollacker et al.,SIGMOD 2008 Semantic Media Wiki -- Shivvasangari Subramani explore:Semanti MediaWiki site read: Semantic MediaWiki, Krötzsch et al., ISWC 2006. view: Semantic Wikis: Fusing the two strands of the Semantic Web, Mark Greaves on Semantic Wikis.
4/15	Wed	Search Ping the Semantic Web	Search -- Varish Mulwad read: Swoogle: A Search and Metadata Engine for the Semantic Web Watson, SWSE, Falcon, Sindice ppt: Semantic Web Search Ping the semantic Web -- Shantanu Fauji explore: pingTheSemanticWeb.com PPT: Ping the Semantic Web
4/20	Mon	Triple stores	Triple stores: Jena -- Luke Georgalas explore: Jena on sourceforge read: Jena: implementing the semantic web recommendations ppt: Jena.ppt Triple stores: Virtuoso -- Michael Povolotsky explore: OpenLink Software read: RDF Support in the Virtuoso DBMS read: Towards Web Scale RDF ppt: virtuoso.ppt
4/22	Wed	RDFa Microformats	RDFa and GRDDL -- Anand Karandikar read: RDFa Wikipedia article read: RDFa Primer: Bridging the Human and Data Webs read: RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing read: Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages read: hGRDDL: Bridging microformats and RDFa ppt: rdfa_grddl.ppt Microfotmats -- Vikrant Nandakumar explore: Microformats site read: Microformats: a pragmatic path to the semantic web read: How Microformats affect SEO? watch: Bill Gates: "We need microformats" watch: Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit ppt: microformats.pdf
4/27	Mon	Wikitology	read: Using Wikitology for Cross-Document Entity Coreference Resolution ppt: wikitology.ppt
4/29	Wed	Big ontologies	Wordnet ontology -- Robert Lehman explore: Wordnet site explore: Word net KB read: WordNet: a lexical database for English, CACM, 1995 read: RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet ppt: wordnet.ppt, wordnet.odp
5/4	Mon	Ontology mapping	Ontology mapping 1 -- Kunal Narsinghani and Ashwini Lahane read: Ontology Alignment: An annotated Bibliography, Noy and Stuckenschmidt, 2005 read: Ontology Mapping: The State of the Art, Kalfoglou and Schorlemmer, 2005. read: The PROMPT Suite: Interactive Tools For Ontology Merging And Mapping, Noy and Musen, 2004. ppt: ontologyMapping.ppt
5/6	Wed	Uncertainty	CYC ontology -- Patrick McCauley explore: Cycorp site view: Computers versus Common Sense, talk by Lenat, May 2006 read: CYC: a large-scale investment in knowledge infrastructure, CACM, 1995. read: Mapping Ontologies into Cyc, AAAI, 2002. read: COmmon Sense Reasoning -- from Cyc to Intelligent Assistant, 2006 ppt: cyc.ppt Uncertainty and the semantic web -- Jenifer Sleeman read: Uncertainty and the Semantic Web try: Pronto ppt: slides
5/11	Mon	SW reasoning I	read: SWP Chapter 5
5/13	Wed	SW reasoning II	read:

			read: RIF Basic Logic Dialect read: RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility ppt: rules.ppt
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