Understands the principles and practice of inferencing.
Semantic Inferencing with MarkLogic
This tutorial familiarizes the user with concepts and steps for using Semantic Inferencing in MarkLogic. The concepts of inference, rulesets, asserted triples and ontology triples [...]
Multi-Agent and Semantic Web Systems: Description Logics and OWL
This slide presentation of lecture material was used as part of a course given at The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. This lecture discusses [...]
RDF, SPARQL and Semantic Repositories
This massive slide presentation covers a LOT of ground, including. It begins with the benefits of using RDF, RDFS/OWL entailment rules and how they can [...]
Introduction to: Triplestores
This brief weblog entry describes the differences between triple stores and relational database systems. It also discusses the similarities and differences with NoSQL Graph databases. [...]
Practical RDF Schema Reasoning with Annotated Semantic Web Data
Semantic Web data with annotations is becoming available, with the YAGO knowledge base a prominent example. This video discusses an approach to performing the closure [...]
Semantic Web Tutorial 12/14: RDF Schema and OWL 4/4
Follows where previous video left off, describing how adding a property to a resource can confer new membership in a class to that resource. Discusses [...]
An Introduction to OWL
This video lecture starts with an overview of the requirements for defining and using ontologies on the Web. It then outlines the main concepts and [...]
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
This site introduces ontologies and the Semantic Web, with an emphasis on how ontologies are defined and used for applications. There are about about thirty [...]
RDF and Logic: Reasoning and Extension
This paper explores embedding the various kinds of RDF entailment in F-Logic. It shows that the embedding of simple, RDF, and RDFS entailment, as well [...]
Expressive Languages for Querying the Semantic Web
SPARQL 1.1 was recently released, which includes entailment regimes for RDFS and OWL vocabularies and a mechanism to express navigation patterns through regular expressions. Unfortunately, [...]