CmpE 583- WEB SEMANTICS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

WEB ONTOLOGY

• Ch. 4- OWL Introduction in the textbook by Lacy.
• Ch. 10- OWL Language in the textbook by Lacy.
• OWL How to: OWL Web Ontology Language Guide, W3C Recommendation 10 Feb 2004. Smith, Welty, McGuinness (eds.).

• OWL Intro: Notes off Textbook
• OWL Language: Notes off Textbook
• Part on Ontologies (OWL) in Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies by Ivan Herman dated 26 November 2004.
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• Discussion period.

STANDARDS

• OWL recommendations: the most recent are of 10 February 2004. See W3C OWL pages:
  • OWL Web Ontology Language Overview
    W3C Recommendation 10 Feb 2004. Deborah L. McGuinness and Frank van Harmelen (eds.) formerly Feature Synopsis for OWL Lite and OWL.
  • OWL Web Ontology Language Test Cases
    W3C Recommendation 10 Feb 2004. Jeremy J. Carroll, Jos De Roo, eds. 

• Online proceedings compendium of Peter E. Clark.

• Ontology projects and groups compendium of Peter E. Clark.

• Engineering ontologies: Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology by Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness.
• Chapter 7 - Undstanding Taxonomies. In The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management, 1st edition, by Kevin T. Smith, Michael C. Daconta, Leo J. Obrst. John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN:0471432571. Available as e-book at ACM Professional Development Center.
• Chapter 8 - Understanding Ontologies. In The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management, 1st edition, by Kevin T. Smith, Michael C. Daconta, Leo J. Obrst. John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN:0471432571. Available as e-book at ACM Professional Development Center.
• Many specific examples of commercial applications and enterprise scale implementations of these technologies are detailed in the RDF/OWL testimonial page, as well as the RDF and OWL Implementation pages.
• Edgington, T., Choi, B., Henson, K, Raghu, T.S., and Vinze, Ajay: Adopting ontology to facilitate knowledge sharing. Commun. ACM 47, 11 (Nov. 2004), 85-90.
• Enrico FRANKONI: Course on knowledge representation: Description Logics.
• RDF Topic Maps by Eric Prud'hommeaux: Topic Maps describe associations of objects (identified by URI). RDF describes relationships between objects. This document describes a few algorithmic mappings between the two.
• Contrasting Knowledge Representation in MOF, Topic Maps and RDF by Eric Prud'hommeaux.
• UML conversion: Python code sample.
• EER diagram samples are available  in:
  • Chapter 4 in Modern Database Management, 6^th Edition by Hoffer et al.
  • Chapter 4 in Elmasri/Navathe: Fundamentals of Database Systems, 3rd Edition. Addison-Wesley Longman, 2000.
  • L. Khan: Mapping: Lecture6.ppt.
  • Renée Fecteau: Chapter 7.
  • Hsin-Hsi Chen: Chapter 4 & Chapter 9.
  • Urban, Susan D.; Suzanne W. Dietrich: "Using UML class diagrams for a comparative analysis of relational, object-oriented, and object-relational database mappings", ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Proc. 34th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Vol. 35, Issue #1, January 2003.
  • Alex Borgida: uml-figs.pdf.gz & eer2rd.pdf.gz & EER2DB-figs.pdf.gz.
  • Silberschatz, Abraham; Henry F. Korth, and S. Sudsarshan: Database System Concepts, 3rd Edition.
  • Andrei Lopatenko: Sweeney Tours.

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