Reading List

I. Semantic Web Vision

Ch. 1, T. B. Passin, Sections 1.1, 1.3 and 1.4

C.h . 1, Daconta et al., pp. 1 – 6

Jane Zhang's article

McCool's articles

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2726190.ece

II. Knowledge Organization Systems

http://www.db.dk/bh/lifeboat_ko/concepts/knowledge_organization_systems.htm

http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri.html

Section 1, http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v04/i04/Soergel/

III. Topic Maps

The second link under KOS (above)

Ch. 7, Daconta et al., pp. 170 - 180

http://www.xmluk.org/images/content/Ontologies_and_XML_12_05/tms-ontologies-for-humans.pdf

http://www.empolis.com/downloads/empolis_TopicMaps_Whitepaper20030206.pdf

IV. Understanding Ontology and Ontology Languages

Reread materials on Layered Cake Architecture of the Semantic Web

Ch. 3, Daconta et al. (Intro, to XML and name spaces)

Ch. 3, Antoniou and van Harmelen, Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9

Ch. 4, Antoniou and van Harmelen, Sections 4.1 (up to and including 4.1.2)

See relevant slide presentations of Ch. 3 and Ch. 4 from:

http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/swprimer/index2.php?selected=1&opened=1

V. Modeling data Using RDF

Ch. 2, T.B. Passin (except syntactic details in section 2.6)

VI. Role of Logic

Ch.  6, T.B. Passin

Ch. 8, Daconta et al., pp. 224 – 229.

VII. Understanding Ontology

Ch. 7, Daconta et al., pp. 156 - 167

Ch. 8, Daconta et al., pp. 182 – 221

Ch. 4, Antoniou and van Harmelen, Sections 4.1.3 and 4.1.4

Also see relevant sections of slides for Ch. 4 at:

http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/swprimer/index2.php?selected=1&opened=1

VIII. Topics for the Semantic Web

Some highlights from the following Chapters and sections:

Ch. 4, T.B. Passin, T.B. Passin, Annotations

Ch. 5, T.B. Passin, Searching- especially section 5.2

Appendix A.1, T.B. Passin, Friend of a Friend (FOAF)

Ch. 4, Daconta et al., Understanding Web Services, pp. 57 -65 and pp. 82 – 84.

IX. Ontology Engineering

Ch. 7, Antoniou and van Harmelen- especially sections 7.2, 7.3 and 7.5
See relevant slide presentations of Ch. 7 from:

http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/swprimer/index2.php?selected=1&opened=1