Official web-site for the Ph.D. course on Semantic Web: Technologies, Tools, Applications (01LHVIU).

News

• 2012-07-25: The exam results for the 2012-06-22 written test are now available (see tab "Exam")
• 2012-05-08: The course schedule has been published in the Course Info section. The first class will be on May 17 at 10:00.
• 2011-11-29: The second date for the Semantic Web Exam has been agreed through a Doodle poll. The exam will be on Tuesday, November 29th, at 10:00, in "Sala Riunioni 4" (4th floor)
• 2011-07-06: Exam results have been published (see tab "Exam"). For failing students, or for students who couldn't attend, there will be a second date in the September-October timeframe.
• 2011-04-28: Due to some conflicts with the Research Topics course, we had to change some of the planned dates. See the updated schedule.
• 2011-02-07: The tentative schedule for the 2011 edition of the course has been published in the "Course Info" section. The course will start on May 9th, and run until June 6th.
• 2010-06-18: The exam results for the second date are available (see tab "Exam")
• 2010-05-21: A new exam date has been fixed: June 14, 2010, at 17:00 in Room 4.
• 2010-05-12: The exam results are available (see tab "Exam")
• 2010-04-09: Warning: exam time changed from 14:00 to 16:30!
• 2010-02-24: Tentative schedule for 2010 has been published
• 2009-05-22: Exam results have been published (see tab "Exam")
• 2009-04-16: Detailed content published
• 2009-02-17: The schedule for the 2009 edition has been publised (see Course Info)
• 2009-04-30: Please take the survey on Intelligent Domotic User Interfaces

Topics

• Knowledge representation techniques: metadata, taxonimies, thesauri, ontologies, folksonomies
• Structure of an ontology and design of conceptual ontologies
• Semantic web technologies: RDF, OWL
• Semantic search and reasoning
• The Open Linked Data initiative
• Triple stores, SPARQL
• Overview of semantic applications

Teachers

• Fulvio Corno
• Laura Farinetti
• with the collaboration of other members of the e-lite group

Schedule New!

1. Thu 2012-05-17, h 10:00-13:00, Room "C"
2. Thu 2012-05-24, h 10:00-13:00, Room "C"
3. Mon 2012-05-28, h 14:00-17:00, Room "C"
4. Fri 2012-06-01, h 14:00-17:00, Room "C"
5. Tue 2012-06-05, h 14:00-17:00, Room "C"
6. Thu 2012-06-07, h 10:00-13:00, Room "C"
7. Mon 2012-06-12, h 14:00-16:00, Room "C"
8. Exam: FRIDAY, 22 JUNE 2012, hours: 14:00-15:00, Room "C"

Lecture slides

• Course introduction
• Semantic Web, Metadata, Knowledge Representation, Ontologies
• RDF - Resource Description Framework and RDF Schema
• SPARQL and Linked Data
• RDF semantics and RDF reasoning
• The SKOS dictionary
• The OWL Ontology Web Language
• OWL Semantics, OWL Reasoning
• Ambient Intelligence, Smart Buildings and the Dog2 Semantic Framework

Lecture slides (2011 edition)

• Course Introduction (updated 2011)
• Semantic Web, Metadata, Knowledge Representation, Ontologies
• RDF - Resource Description Framework and RDF Schema
• SPARQL and Linked Data
• RDF Reasoning
• SKOS
• Ontologies and OWL
  • Example ontology files
• OWL Reasoning
• Rule-based Reasoning
• Ambient intelligence and the Dog2 framework

Exam rules

• Time: 60 minutes.
• Using printed or handwritten material is permitted.
• Using computers is forbidden.

Exam date: 2012-06-22 New!

• Text of the exam
• Evaluation Results

Exam date: 2011-11-29

• Text of the exam
• Evaluation Results

Exam date: 2011-06-16

• Text of the exam

Exam date: 2010-06-14

• Text of the exam

Exam date: 2010-05-10

• Text of the exam

Old exams

• Text of 2009-05-19

Portals

• W3C Semantic Web Activity
• The Sematic Web Community wiki

Standards and Recommendations

• Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax (W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004)
• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004)
• SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference (W3C Candidate Recommendation 17 March 2009)

Tools

• Protégé ontology editor
• Pellet OWD-DL reasoner

Log of the lectures (2012)

Log of the lectures (2011)