USEFUL LINKS

EXAMPLES OF SEMANTIC WEB USE

• Nokia Semantic Web Server: access to metadata in program processable format.
• Nokia Semantic Web Project: started in 1996 even before the term was coined. Check publications!
• See also PROJECTS links below.
• Check demos of MindSwap Project.
• FOAF- Friend of a Friend RDFWeb Project.
• Traditional problems - new solutions: enterprise semantic data integration: the case of Unicorn SIM.

ACTIVITIES IN TURKEY

• Istanbul Technical University Grid Computing Days, July 12, 2004. Presentations.
• Artemis Project at SRDC, METU.
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COURSES AND TUTORIALS

• Atilla Elçi (EMU): CmpE 583- Web Semantics: Theory and Practice.
• Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks and Peter F. Patel-Schneider: Tutorial on OWL.
• Ian Horrocks, Alan Rector: CS 646- Semantic Web Ontologies and OWL.
• OntoWeb-Edu tutorials.
• Asuman Doğaç (METU): CEng 520- Advanced Topics in Internet Computing.
• MIT OpenCourseWare Web course 6.863J / 9.611J Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge, Spring 2003.

• MIT OpenCourseWare Web course 16.412J / 6.834J Cognitive Robotics, Spring 2004.

• Harold Boley courses at

  2004/05 Fall: CS 6795 Semantic Web Techniques

  2003/04 Fall: CS 6905 Semantic Web Techniques

  2002/03 Fall: CS 6999 Semantic Web Techniques

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Gizem's references document (updated).
• OntoWeb Educational Resources: Ontoweb-Edu.

TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

• Ontology.
• Semantic Web
• XML Web Services by Kıvanç ÖZÜÖLMEZ.
• Intelligent agents references by Kıvanç ÖZÜÖLMEZ.
• Topic Maps vs. RDF on Ontopia.
• Intelligent Agents by Duygu ÇELİK.
• Semantic Search Engines by Duygu ÇELİK.
• Model management.

APPLICATION AREAS

• MEDET Denizci Hareketliliği Projesi (EU) (in Turkish).
• Türkiye Kıyıları 04 (in Turkish).
• E-Learning: ACM eLearn Magazine: basics, tutorials, research and resources.
• Atilla Elçi: A Metadata model for e-learning coordination through semantic Web languages, Proc. IETC-2004.
• Interoperability in e-learning: The IMS Learning Design e-learning specification in UNFOLD Project (EU IST).
• 50 partners from EU Projects form a new professional learning cluster: Cordis news item; further information
• Distance education online resources: Faculty Development Associates website: http://www.developfaculty.com/
• 'Integrating Knowledge in the Life Science Product Life Cycle': The  knowledge management in Pharma & Life Science Community of Practice will hold their Web conference starting October 18th, 2004 at http://km.colayer.net/. Registration is required to participate in virtual and face-to-face meetings and workshops.
• Enterprise semantic data integration: the case of Unicorn SIM.
• Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project and The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries JCDL 2006.
• Also see: Workshop on European Infrastructure for Repositories of Scientific Information, 8-9 June 2006, Brussels. Report on 2005 workshop.

CONFERENCE LINKS:

• Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium 2006 in conjunction with Canadian AI 2006, 6 June 2006, Univ. Laval, Quebec, Canada.
• W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences, 27-28 October 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• List of KR/DB Conferences and CFPs (maintained by Enrico Franconi).
• Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies: WORM 2004.
• Electronic Health Records and Standards Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, 1 October 2004. Ref: http://www.turkmia.org/sempozyum/.
• Online proceedings compendium of Peter E. Clark.
• Academic Conferences in Turkey.
• Academic Conferences around the World.
• Check ACM Conferences and IEEE Computer Society Conferences.
• Semantic Web Days, October 6 - 7, 2005, Munich, Germany.
• The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries JCDL 2006.

ORGS:

• W3C: World Wide Web Consortium.
• SemanticWeb.Org: The Semantic Web Community Portal.
• OntoWeb Org.
• EU info resources: CORDIS.
• The Data Semantics Community: Semantic World.
• Global Grid Forum: GGF.
• Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy.
• The RuleML Initiative.
• Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab Semantic Web Agents Project: The MindSwap.org.
• Semantic Web Research Forum.
• SWSA- Semantic Web Science Association: organizes the prestigious International Semantic Web Conferences. See: ISWC 2004.
• Ontology projects and groups compendium of Peter E. Clark.
• ILRT of the Univ. of Bristol.
• ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web: www.sigweb.org.
• Intelligent Software Agents Lab, CMU.
• UMBC eBiquity

PROJECTS:

• Knowledge Web Project: FP6-507482.
• OntoWeb Project.
• EU FP6: 6th Framework Program.
• Artemis Project at SRDC, METU.
• Crossup Project, SWWG, ITRC, EMU.
• Intelligent Agent & Semantic Web Enabled eFinance: site.
• SWAP: Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer, AIFB, Univ. of Karlsruhe. And others.
• FOAF- Friend of a Friend RDFWeb Project.
• Check EU Information Society Technologies Department's Framework Programs Future and Emerging Technologies projects list. Especially, areas of  Computer Science, Network and Computer Science, and Robotics projects. Don't miss PLANTS, SOCIAL and WONDERWEB projects. Also the following.
• REWERSE
  The European Network of Excellence REWERSE investigates reasoning-based technologies to process (Semantic) Web data. These technologies provide Web-based systems with advanced capabilities, in particular enhanced context-awareness and decision support. The project comprising 27 leading research and industry organisations, was launched in March 2004 and is supported by the EU Commission with more than 5 Million Euro over 4 years.
• Knowledge Web
  The European Network of Excellence Knowledge Web aims at supporting the transition of Ontology technology from academia to industry. The current consortium is integrated by 18 participants including leading partners in Semantic Web, Multimedia, Human-Language Technology, Workflow, and Agents. The project is supported by the EU Commission with 7 Million Euro over 4 years.
• Swoogle, a crawler-based indexing and retrieval service for the semantic web: available at http://swoogle.umbc.edu/.
• Check projects at SemWebCentral.org.
• Annotea Project of W3C.org.
• Ontology projects and groups compendium of Peter E. Clark.
• Teknowledge's Semantic Word intro.
• OntoText Lab for SWS.
• Tourism Application: Satine Project.

ONTOLOGY:

• Ontology compendium of Peter E. Clark.
• Reference on Ontology in General.
• Data/Ontology Integration Systems.
• Notes on Some Important Ontologies by Behlül S. BEHRAM.
• References to important ontologies by Behlül S. BEHRAM.
• SWAP Methods Survey document.
• OWL Inference Engines: Check Reasoners at W3C OWL Projects and Applications.
• Amine Tafat, Michele Courant, and Beat Hirsbrunner: A Generic Coordination Model for Pervasive Computing Based on Semantic Web Languages, pp. 265 - 275 in Proceedings of Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 9th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2004, Salford, UK, June 23-25, 2004; Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3136 / 2004 (Editors: Farid Meziane, Elisabeth Métais), Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743;ISBN: 3-540-22564-1; DOI: 10.1007/b98754. Reference copy.
• BENACERRAF, Paul, "Matematiksel hakikat", pp: 239-264 in GÜR, Bekir S. (editor), Matematik Felsefesi, Orient Yayınları 2, ISBN: 975-98974-1-5, April 2004. (Original: ..., "Mathematical Truth", Journal of Philosophy, vol.: 70, pp: 661-679, 1973.). Bu yazıda Benacerraf, Plantonculuğun dışında kalan pozitif bilimler kastedilerek, "... Matematik ve bilimin geri kalanı için tek bir anlambilimi oluşturmanın kuvvetli delillerini ortaya koymaktadır; ..." Burada anılan "tek bir anlambilimi" terimi ile "birleştirilmiş ontoloji" anlaşılabilir.
• RESNIK,Michael D., "Modeller bilimi olarak matematik: ontoloji ve referans", pp: 325-358 in GÜR, Bekir S. (editor), Matematik Felsefesi, Orient Yayınları 2, ISBN: 975-98974-1-5, April 2004. (Original: ...., "Mathematics as a science of patterns: ontology and reference", Nous, vol.: 15, pp: 529-550, 1981.). Bu çeviride "model" sözcüğü, asıl bildirideki "pattern" yerine kullanılmış. Örüntü, kalıp, örnek vb gibileri de olabilirdi.

   

RESEARCHERS:

• Mary-Anne Williams
  Innovation & Technology Research Laboratory.
• Asuman Doğaç
  Software Research & Development Center.
• ART, CS Dept., University of Liverpool.
• Harold Boley
  Semantic Web Laboratory
• CTI, Computer Eng. & Information Dept., U. Patras

RECENT BOOKS:

• Try Amazon.com for "Semantic Web"
• Hai Zhuge, The Knowledge Grid, World Scientific Publishing Co., Dec. 2004, 280pp, ISBN 981-256-140-4, US$55 / £34.
• Thomas B. Passin, Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web, Manning Publications, June 2004, ISBN 1932394206. Ebook is also available.
• GÜR, Bekir S. (editor), Matematik Felsefesi, Orient Yayınları 2, ISBN: 975-98974-1-5, April 2004.
• Fran BERMAN, Geoffrey FOX, and Tony HEY: Grid Computing- Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, 1060 pp., Wiley, 2003, ISBN: 0-470-85319-0.
• Maozhen LI and Mark BAKER: The Grid- Core Technologies, 256 pp., Wiley, 2005, ISBN: 0-470-09417-6.
  "Provides a solid introduction to the technologies that underpin the Grid for newcomers". OGSA, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, GMA, Grid portals, workflow, security, Globus 3, portal tools.
• Diane COOK and Sajal DAS: Smart Environments- Technology, Protocols and Applications, 422 pp., Wiley, 2004, ISBN: 0-471-54448-5.
  "... describing techniques and issues related to developing and living in intelligent environments. ... user interfaces, action prediction and identification, ubiquitous and aware computing, and intelligent decision making for smart environments."
• Jeffrey T. POLLACK, and Ralph HOGDSON: Adaptive Information- Improving Business Through Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing, and Enterprise Integration, 384 pp., Wiley, 2004, ISBN: 0-471-48854-2.
  "Presents a new paradigm for considering application integration and B2B problems by heightening the importance of conveying meaning between systems".
• John DAVIES, Dieter FENSEL, Frank van HARMELEN: Towards the Semantic Web- Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management, 310 pp., Wiley, 2003, ISBN: 0-470-84867-7.
• John F. Sowa: Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations, Brooks Cole Publishing Co., Pacific Grove, CA, ©2000. Actual publication date, 16 August 1999.
  594 + xiv pages; ISBN 0-534-94965-7. Book site.
   

JOURNALS:

• Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Copyright © 2004 Elsevier B.V.:
  • Preprint server.
  • ScienceDirect access to fulltext (through EMU IPs).
• JODI: Journal of Digital Information.  A peer-reviewed Web journal supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press.
• International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS):
  An official publication of the Information Resources Management Association.
  Sponsored by Association for Information Systems, SIG on Semantic Web and Information Systems AIS SIGSEMIS, http://www.sigsemis.org and AIS SIGODIS
  Editors: Amit Sheth and Miltiadis D. Lytras.
  ISSN: 1552-6283
  E-ISSN: 1552-6291
  Published: Quarterly
   

MAILING LISTS:

• SemanticWeb.Org's http://groups.yahoo.com/group/semanticweb/: The purpose of this mailing list is to relate the different
  existing ontology development efforts to each other and to split of new ones.
• W3C Announcements Mailing List: send e-mail to w3c-announce-request@listhub.w3.org.
• See also lists in Ontology projects and groups compendium of Peter E. Clark.

Updated: May 31, 2006.