Dr. Alexandra I. Cristeahttp://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/

CS 414: Semantic Web

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Lecturers• Alexandra I. Cristea• Seminar lecturer: Jonny Foss

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Contact• General questions: Forum:

https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/teaching/material/cs414/forum/

• For Personal questions: – email organiser or seminar organiser– FORMAT: subject of email should contain ‘CS414’

and topic of the email (otherwise it may be filtered out)

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Overlaps and sequencing• Form: optional• Prerequisites

– None directly, but XML, XHTML, DB, Programming, etc. skills are useful

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Scope of CS 411

• A selection of topics on the semantic web

• What this course is not:– This course is not an exhaustive course on these

topics– This course is based on lectures, self-study and

interaction at seminars/labs

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Content: Topics1. Semantic Web, Knowledge Representation,

Linked Data, Ontologies2. RDF; RDFS3. SPARQL4. OWL; OWL25. DL6. Web 2.07. UM8. Ontologies, development and evaluation9. Applications of SW

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Books & Material• A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems Series) by Grigoris

Antoniou, Paul Groth, Frank Van Harmelen and Rinke Hoekstra (18 Sep 2012)Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web, Theory and Technology... by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (1 Feb 2011)Programming the Semantic Web. Toby Segaran, Colin Evans and Jamie Taylor. O'Reilly, 2009  Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, 2nd ed. Dean Allemang, Jim Hendler. Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier 2011.The description logic handbook 2nd ed. Franz Baader et al. Cambridge University Press, 2007.Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modelling in RDFS and OWL. Dean Allemang and Jim HendlerPascal Hitzler, Markus Krotzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies, CRC Press, 2009.Russell, S. and Norvig, P. (2009). Artificial Intelligence- A Modern Approach (Third Edition). Prentice Hall.

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Course site(s):• Current:

– CS414 on sitebuilder– Will contain current slides, as taught at the course– Will contain extra reading material – Will contain notifications: check BEFORE & AFTER

the course

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Organization of the course• 15 CATS (7.5 ECTS) Term 1• MEng, MSc• Lectures+ seminar/lectures • Coursework (30%), Exam at the end (70%): 2 hours• Rules of the game:

– Read material given to you extra – papers, etc.– Read also comments on the slides and additional reading

material (papers, etc.).– Presence is optional, but beware: slides-only are NOT

ENOUGH to learn from for the exam; you need to participate, take your own notes, self-study!

Health Warning• CS414 is a new module under active development

– Coverage of topics still being finalized– Coverage of topics reflects module organizer’s

preferences• A broad blend of theory and applications

– Conceptual: understanding of languages and definitions– Practical: understand implications, get hands on

• Structure: 1-4 lectures on each topic

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