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University of Trento
Fall 2016

CONTENTS

The course this year is organized into 4 modules:

  • INTRODUCTION: an introduction to semantic web;
  • ONTOLOGY TOOLS AND LANGUAGES: an overview of the ontology tools and languages;
  • LOGICS FOR ONTOLOGY: applications of description logic;
  • METHODOLOGY FOR ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: methodologies for ontology development from past to present;

LESSONS

Official Lectures Time and Location:
Wednesday 16:00 - 18:00, Faculty of Science, Povo2, room B102
Fridays 11:00 - 13:00, Faculty of Science, Povo2, room B103

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SYLLABUS

Slides and handouts will be put online some days after each lesson.

Date
Lecturer
Topic
Slides
INTRODUCTION
14/09
Subhashis
Introduction to the course; Semantic web
16/09
Subhashis
Open Data Projects
21/09
Subhashis
Semantic Heterogeneity Problem in knowledge resources
ONTOLOGY TOOLS AND LANGUAGES
23/09
Subhashis
Types of Ontologies; Lightweight Ontology
28/09
Subhashis/Fausto
ASSIGNMENT ALLOCATION
30/09
Subhashis
Protégé (hands on practice)
05/10
Subhashis
Importing Data into Protégé-OWL
07/10
Enzo
RDF
12/10
Enzo
OWL
14/10
Enzo
SPARQL
19/10
Subhashis
SPARQL (hands on practice)
LOGICS FOR ONTOLOGY
21/10
Subhashis
Discussion-A new class or a property value?
26/10
Fausto
Propositional DL: syntax and semantics
28/10
Fausto
Propositional DL: TBOX
09/11
Fausto
Propositional DL: ABOX
11/11
Subhashis
Case Studies*
11/11
Subhashis
Extended ER models
16/11
Subhashis
Ontology Evaluation Methodologies
18/11
Fausto
DL: Family of languages
23/11
Subhashis
DL exercises (Part I)(Part II)
METHODOLOGIES FOR ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
25/11
Fausto
Ontology Development Methodologies
25/11
Fausto
The DERA methodology
02/12
Subhashis
Evaluation and discussion
14/12
Subhashis/Fausto
Exam Presentation
16/12
Subhashis/Fausto
Exam Presentation
21/12
Subhashis/Fausto
Exam Presentation
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