Semantic Web Technologies

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Semantic Web Technologies

• HWS 2009

Name und Datum www.uni-mannheim.de Seite 1
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What Language ?

• Anyone, who does not speak German?

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General Planning

• Friday 1200 1330 (B6, A1.01) Lecture
• Wednesday 1345 1515 (A5, C012) Practical
  Excercise
• Any needs to change this ?
• People involved
• Lectures until mid October Heiner Stuckenschmidt
• Lectures after mid October Johanna Völker
  (Post-Doc)
• Practical Excercise Anne Schlicht
• Web-page http//ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/tea
  ching/semweb_hws_2009.html
• Mailing-List https//mailman.uni-mannheim.de/mail
  man/listinfo/semanticweb/
• Forum https//ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/forum
  /

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Exercises and Exam

• Exercises
• See infos and links on the webpage
• Register to lecture mailinglist
• Participate actively in the lab (get 50 of
  credits for each of the weekly assignments, 1
  joker)
• Preferably work in groups of two students
• Get a PI-pool account before first lab or work on
  your own machine
• Exam
• Mid December, second chance end of January
• Successful participation in lab is a precondition
• Oral or written exam depending on number of
  participants

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Topics

• Idea of the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web Languages
• (XML)
• RDF/RDFS
• OWL
• Ontologies
• Building Ontologies
• Reasoning in Ontologies
• Using Ontologies
• Current Research Topics

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Previous Knowledge

• Mandatory
• English Language Skills
• JAVA Programming
• Useful general knowledge about
• Database Systems
• Web Technologies
• Conceptual Modelling

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Lecture Planning (until mid October)

• 11.9. Introduction
• 18.9. XML
• 25.9. RDF / RDF Schema
• 2.10. RDF Query Languages
• 9.10. RDF Theory

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Material

• Textbooks
• Antoniou, van Harmelen A Semantic Web Primer
• Hitzler et al Semantic Web (in German)
• Stuckenschmidt Ontologien Konzepte,
  Technologien, Anwendungen (in German)
• Publications and Tutorials
• Will be linked on the Course web page
• http//ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de (? Teaching
  ? Semantic Web)
• The Web (of course)

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Any Questions ?