Ontology and Semantic Web Series
A set of presentations and reference materials about Ontology and Semantic Web, organized by Dr. Vijay Raghavan with help of Ms. Elshaimaa Ali
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Semantic Web Vision
- the outline is: What is the Semantic Web? Why do we need the Semantic Web? Semantic Understanding. Information Value Chain. Foundational Definitions. How can we achieve semantic understanding? The Web as visioned by Tim. The change between current Web and the Semantic Web? What are topics to cover about the Semantic Web?
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Knowledge Organization Systems
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Understanding Ontology and Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web
- by Dr. Raghavan The talk discusses the W3C Layered Architecture for the languages of the semantic Web and introduce some of the layers such as XML, XML schema, RDF and RDF schema.
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Topic Maps
- A good source of reference is Ch. 3 from Tom Panin's Book. The contents of the presentation is syntesized from the following: Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! and Topic Maps - Ontologies for Humans? both by Lars Marius Garshol from ontopia.net
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Modeling Data using RDF
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Reading List
- Note from Dr. Raghavan: (Shaimaa and I) have access to any of those books in electronic form.
