Semantic Web Technologies

  • Type: Lecture (V)
  • Semester: SS 2024
  • Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Michael Färber
    Dr.-Ing. Tobias Käfer
    Christoph Braun
    Lukas Kinder
  • SWS: 2
  • Lv-No.: 2511310
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The aim of the Semantic Web is to make the meaning (semantics) of data on the web usable in intelligent systems, e.g. in e-commerce and internet portals

Central concepts are the representation of knowledge in form of RDF and ontologies, the access via Linked Data, as well as querying the data by using SPARQL. This lecture provides the foundations of knowledge representation and processing for the corresponding technologies and presents example applications.

The following topics are covered:

  • Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema (RDFS)
  • Web Architecture and Linked Data
  • Web Ontology Language (OWL)
  • Query language SPARQL
  • Rule languages
  • Applications

Learning objectives:

The student

  • understands the motivation and foundational ideas behind Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies, and is able to analyse and realise systems
  • demonstrates basic competency in the areas of data and system integration on the web
  • masters advanced knowledge representation scenarios involving ontologies

Recommendations:

Lectures on Informatics of the Bachelor on Information Systems (Semester 1-4) or equivalent are required. Knowledge of modeling with UML is required. 

Workload:

  • The total workload for this course is approximately 135 hours
  • Time of presentness: 45 hours
  • Time of preperation and postprocessing: 60 hours
  • Exam and exam preperation: 30 hours
Language of instructionEnglish
Bibliography
  • Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, York Sure: Semantic Web – Grundlagen. Springer, 2008.
  • John Domingue, Dieter Fensel, James A. Hendler (Editors). Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies. Springer, 2011.

Weitere Literatur

  • S. Staab, R. Studer (Editors). Handbook on Ontologies. International Handbooks in Information Systems. Springer, 2003.
  • Tim Berners-Lee. Weaving the Web. Harper, 1999 geb. 2000 Taschenbuch.
  • Ian Jacobs, Norman Walsh. Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One. W3C Recommendation 15 December 2004. http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
  • Dean Allemang. Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL. Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.
  • Tom Heath and Chris Bizer. Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space. Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, 2011.