Understands the principles and practice of inferencing.
RDF Homework Exercises
This document contains several "written" and "electronic" homework questions originally from the course "Semantic Web Topics" at LeHigh University. They include: Translating an RDF Graph [...]
OWL and DL Homework Exercises
This document contains several "written" and "electronic" homework questions originally from the course "Semantic Web Topics" at LeHigh University. They include: Draw the equivalent graph [...]
SPARQL and Linked Data Homework Exercises
This document contains several "written" and "electronic" homework questions originally from the course "Semantic Web Topics" at LeHigh University. They include: Write a series of [...]
Design an OWL Ontology Project
This document outlines a project originally from the course "Semantic Web Topics" at LeHigh University. Students are asked to work in teams to design an [...]
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
A video lecture introducing RDF Schema and OWL, with visible slides throughout. The concepts behind ontologies are also discussed in a general, schema-agnostic manner. Places [...]
Querying Linked Data
This module looks in great detail at SPARQL and introduces approaches for querying and updating semantic data. It covers the SPARQL algebra, the SPARQL 1.1 [...]
On the Semantics of SPARQL Queries with Optional Matching under Entailment Regimes
This presentation covers the semantics of SPARQL queries with optional matching features under entailment regimes. It argues that normative semantics may lead to answers that [...]
Answering SPARQL Queries over Databases under OWL 2 QL Entailment Regime
This video presents an extension of the ontology-based data access platform Ontop that supports answering SPARQL queries under the OWL 2 QL direct semantics entailment [...]
Creating and Using Ontologies
Discussion of what ontologies are (and are not) and how to build them in two primary stages: 1) Requirements analysis and 2) Conceptualization. Each primary [...]
Ontologies and Databases
Briefly discusses what an ontology is before focusing on querying a database via an ontology. Fairly dismissive of the Semantic Web as a pipe dream- [...]