Advanced Studies in IT (CT433): Semantic Web

Lecture by Axel Polleres.

Overview

In this course we will cover various aspects of Informaction processing and integration of Web data and other data available in Web formats such as XML. The lecture will be held in 3 blocks:

1. Introduction, XML
2. Semantic Web, RDF, RDFS and OWL
3. Web Services

Location

Unless announced otherwise, the lectures will be held in NUI Galway, Intofmation Technologies Building, room IT207.

Schedule

THIS LECTURE WILL BE BLOCKED!

Blocks:

• 2008-01-27: 09:00 - 10:00
• 2007-02-04: 09:00 - 11:00
• 2007-02-11: No lecture!
• 2007-02-18: No lecture!
• 2007-02-25: 09:00 - 11:00
• 2007-03-03: No lecture!
• 2007-03-10: 09:00 - 11:00
• 2007-03-17: No lecture (St. Patrick's Day)!
• 2007-03-24: No lecture (Easter)!
• 2007-03-31: 09:00 - 11:00
• 2007-04-07: 09:00 - 10:00
• 2007-04-14: 10:30 - 11:30
• Further blocks to be announced!

Course Material

• 2008-01-27: Motivation (PDF) Topic overview, motivation, introduction
• 2007-02-04: Lecture 2 (PDF): XML Basics
• 2007-02-25: Lecture 3 (PDF): Advanced XML: XSD, XPath, XSLT. Example files (ZIP)
• Exercises sheet 1 (ZIP): Exercises for DTDs, XSD, XPath and XSLT, to be solved by March 28th
• 2007-03-10: Lecture 4 (PDF): Making the Web Machine- Readable: The Semantic Web
• Exercises sheet 2 (PDF): Exercises for DTDs, XSD, XPath and XSLT, to be solved by March 28th
• 2008-03-30 and 2008-04-07: Lecture 5 (PDF): Solutions to Assignments, Sheet 1, first part of Sheet 2
• 2008-04-14: Lecture 6 (PDF): Q&A