Semantic Web Course: Course Material (Fall 2003)

Semantic Enterprise Course Material

The course will be conducted as follows:

A series of lectures by the instructor and TAs
Seminar style discussions of research papers and commercial technologies
Students' presentation on a scientific method, technologies and tools relevant to the Semantic Web
Students' Final Project requiring working prototypes.

Practically all material discussed/presented will be available here as the course progresses.
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Reading Assignments and Instructor's presentations
Class	Due Date	Review material from previous Semantic Web course and Semantic Enterprise Course
1		Review the terms, Semantic Metadata short article, Semantic Enterprise Content Management article
2	8/21/03	Mystries of Metadata (talk), TBL on metadata, Boll et al chapter on metadata
3	8/27/03	XML Tutorial; RDF Tutorial ; Kunal's review of RDF; Initial guidelines on project
4	8/28/03	Tim Finin's talk ; Tom Gruber's talk ; Amit Sheth's overview of ontologies (see first few slides)
5	9/02/03	More overview talks and tutorials: XML to OWL Another XML to OWL; OWL Tutorial; RDF Schema ; RDF Tools ; Agent Cities ; RDF Databases ; RQL Tutorial , Interactive Querying RQL Demo
6		Cartic's review of Ontologies
7		Ontology Design Methodology [.ppt] is a review of Ontology Development 101 [.ppt]
8		Introduction to Description Logics
9		Semi-structured data storage
10		Automated taxonomy Generation – A first step toward Ontology learning.


Student Technology Presentations
Presenter		Title and document
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Rohit Aggarwal
Boanerges Aleman-Meza		Web Ontology Language OWL , Reading: RDF Primer (Section 5); OWL Use Cases and Requirments (Section 1, 2, and 3)
Chris Halaschek		Semantic Portals







`Review and Demonstration of current Semantic Web tools and research prototypes`
Presentor		Title and Document


Students' Final Project

Assignment/Project log: Some suggestions on writing a paper/assignment.

Last update: 09/01/03