CSIS 633 Fall 2011

Syllabus

Text 1: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist (SWWO)

Text 2: Semantic Web Programming (SWP)

Tools: Protege 4, Pellet, Jena

Resources: WordNet, LinkedData.org

IDEs: NetBeans, Eclipse

Schedule:

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Date in 2011
Topic Weekly Readings Assignments due
1
M 29 Aug Introduction to SW SWWO - Ch 1
SWP - Ch 1 and 2
FOAF - try it!
Rugaber: How to Read a Research Paper
Madin paper
Schraefel paper

slides
Example XML Schema from EARTHTIME
2
M 05 Sep Ontologies

Searching

XML, XSD

Do all of the exercises in SWP Chapter 2 so that you have your semantic web programming environment upand running and have some expertise using it.

HW1: 2 page response paper to each paper: submit together as [lastname].HW1.pdf
Be prepared to present to class.

3
M 12 Sep Semantic Modeling

RDF

SWWO - Ch 2
SWP - Ch 3
Web Science
Do all of the exercises in SWP Chapter 3.

HW2: 2 page response paper to Web Science: submit as [lastname].HW2.pdf
Be prepared to present to class.

4
M 19 Sep SWWO - Ch 3
SWP - Ch 4
Semantic Provenance
HW3: 2 page response paper to Semantic Provenance: submit as [lastname].HW3.pdf
Be prepared to present to class.
5
M 26 Sep RDF & SPARQL SWWO - Ch 4 and 5
SWP - Ch 5 and 6
Read !!
6
M 03 OCT

RDF & SPARQL
7
M 10 OCT M I D T E R M Start project in class ...
8
M 17 OCT FALL BREAK
9
M 24 Oct RDFS-Plus and OWL SWWO - Ch 6, 7, 8, 11, 12

SWP - Ch 7, 8

Read !! and project progress reports
10
M 31 Oct keep reading; projects
11
M 07 Nov keep reading; projects
12
M 14 Nov Read !! and project progress reports
13
M 21 Nov RDFS-Plus in the Wild
SKOS
Best Practices
SWWO - Ch 9, 10

SWP - Chp 14

14
M 28 Nov
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M 05 Dec Project Presentations