Course introduction, TDT44 Semantic Web
TDT44 Semantic Web a specialisation module in TDT4730 Information Systems
Goal:
The students get an orientation of the theoretical, methodological and technological background and of the ongoing standardisation work that support semantic Web.
Theme:
Ontology, information service and model
Contents:
The specialisation topic includes background, construction and realisation of the semantic Web. It gives insight to relevant problems within Web information resources and services, especially semantic Web enabling technology, building of machine readable specifications of information and service content, construction of generic knowledge bases (repositories) and their semantic enrichment, semantic interoperability and model management.
Study materials:
Selected book chapters
(journal articles and research reports)
Organisation:
Self study, with four checkpoints for the participants to discussion the book chapters with each other, scheduled as following:
There is one obligatory Assignment that will make up the grade together with a small Oral presentation. Chapter discussions by students are mandatory.
Teachers (2011-2015)
Associate Professor Rune Sætre (teacher), satre at idi.ntnu.no, rom ITV-104
(Examiner: Professor Jon Atle Gulla, jag at idi.ntnu.no, rom ITV-114)
Readings in TDT44 Semantic Web (2015)
Readings in TDT44 Semantic Web (2014)
Wood, Zaidman, Ruth and Hausenblas:
Linked Data - Structured data on the web
Paperback: 336 pages, Available at Amazon.
Publisher: Manning Publications; 1 edition (January 24, 2014)
1-2 articles on the relation between Linked Data and traditional Semantic Web
The following presentations sum up important topics of the 2013 edition of the course (old text book):
Semantic Web Introduction, Ontology Introduction, OWL Introduction, Protege OWL Modeling, Ontology Reasoning, Ontology Learning.
Chapter 9 in Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies.