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 these technologies within the larger context of the Semantic Web.
URL: http://videolectures.net/koml04_harmelen_o/
Keywords: Ontology, Semantic Web, Web Ontology Language (OWL), RDF Schema
Author: van Harmelen, Frank
Date created: 2007-02-25 05:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P1H
Educational use: instruction
Educational audience: student
Interactivity type: expositive
- Grasps essential differences between schemas for syntactic validation (e.g., XML) and for inferencing (RDF Schema).
- Knows that Web Ontology Language (OWL) is available in multiple "flavors" that are variously optimized for expressivity, performant reasoning, or for applications involving databases or business rules
- Understands that OWL Full supports all available constructs and is most appropriately used when reasoning performance is not a concern.
- Understands the principles and practice of inferencing.
- Knows Web Ontology Language, or OWL (2004), as a RDF vocabulary of properties and classes that extend support for expressive data modeling and automated inferencing (reasoning).
- Uses RDF Schema to express semantic relationships within a vocabulary.