Official website of the course "Semantic Web" (code 01RRDIU) offered to Ph.D. students of Politecnico di Torino.

NOTE: this page refers to an old (archived) version of the course. The latest edition is available at: this page

Schedule

All classes will be in Room C (Aula C), with the following schedule:

• 24/01/2017 10:00 - 12:00
• 31/01/2017 10:00 - 13:00
• 03/02/2017 10:00 - 13:00
• 06/02/2017 10:00 - 13:00
• 10/02/2017 10:00 - 13:00
• 13/02/2017 10:00 - 13:00
• 20/02/2017 10:00 - 13:00
• 28/02/2017 10:00 - 13:00

Students are encouraged to attend the classes with their laptop, in order to develop the proposed exercises.

Topics

• Semantic Web (Definitions and applications)
• Resource Description Format (RDF) and RDF Schema
• Tools for RDF / Lab exercise
• Ontologies and OWL2
• Tools for OWL / Lab exercise
• Semantic Reasoning
• Semantic Queries
• Semantic Rules
• Tools for semantic queries and rules / Lab exercise

Slides

• Introduction
• Definitions & Applications
• RDF and RDFSchema
• The Web of Linked Data
• Ontologies and OWL
• Ontology 101 (how to build an ontology)
• Ontology Reasoning
• Programming the Semantic Web
  • Example developed in class (on GitHub)
  • Exercise

Lecture Videos

• 2017-01-24: Definitions & Applications
• 2017-01-31 (part 1): RDF Graph Model, Serializations
• 2017-01-31 (part 2): RDFS, Entailment
• 2017-02-03: SPARQL, Linked Data
• 2017-02-06: Ontologies and OWL
• 2017-02-10: Ontology 101
• 2017-02-20 (part 1): Semantic Reasoning
• 2017-02-20 (part 2): OWL Reasoners and SWRL
• 2017-02-28: Programming the Semantic Web

Note: all lecture videos are also available as a YouTube playlist.

Exam

The exam will consist in the evaluation of some exercises proposed and developed during the class hours. Students should pass two (out of three) exercises.

• Exercise 1 (RDF and RDFS)
• Exercise 2 (SPARQL)
• Exercise 3 (OWL)

Teachers

• Fulvio Corno
• Laura Farinetti
• Luigi De Russis