Semantic Web: Introduction

CmpE 583- WEB SEMANTICS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Summary: Introducing the course and survey of interest areas.

Preparatory reading: Course Outline and References at CmpE 583 Course Web Site home page.

Ground-breaking articles:

Nokia articles: Nokia Semantic Web Project: started in 1996 even before the term was coined. Check publications!
Tim Berners-Lee: The Semantic Web Roadmap, W3C Draft Document, Sep. 1998.
Newsweek interview with Tim Berners-Lee: The "Semantic Web", in Newsweek, Oct. 30, 2000 issue. Can be gotten also from: http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Newsweek/2000/10/30/317242.

Course Outline and Intro to Semantic Web: ppt.

A survey of interest areas with a point of view on hackers and semantic web: A Web of Rules by Kendall Grant Clark.

Dirk Schreckmann interviews Thomas B. Passin, the author of the recent book "Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web" (see below). Passin explains semantic Web vision by examples. Original interview appeared in August 2004 issue of JavaRanch, volume 3, issue 6.
Thomas B. Passin, Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web, Manning Publications, June 2004, ISBN 1932394206. Ebook is also available.

Updated Oct. 2, 2006.