Syllabus - Semantic Web & Service Oriented Architecture (CSIT-702 (C))

Computer Science & Information Technology

Semantic Web & Service Oriented Architecture (CSIT-702 (C))

VII-Semester

UNIT-I

Semantic Web

Building Models , Calculating with knowledge, Exchanging Information, Semantic Web Technologies ,Types of Web :Smart Web & Dumb Web, Applications ,Semantic Data ,Search Engine for Semantic Web

UNIT-II

Semantic Modeling

Modeling for human communication, Explanation and prediction, Mediating Variability: Variation & Classes, Variation & Layers, Expressivity in Modeling.

UNIT-III

Resource Description Language RDF

Introduction , Advanced features , simple ontologies in RDF Schema , encoding of special data structures, RDF formal semantics ,syntactic reasoning with deduction rules ,Distributing data across web , Managing data from multiple sources .

UNIT-IV

Web Ontology Language OWL

OWL syntax and Intuitive semantics , OWL species , Owl formal semantics : Description Logics , Model-Theoretic Semantics of OWL, Automated reasoning with OWL ,Ontology Matching and Distributed Information .

UNIT-V

Semantic Web Application Architecture

RDF Parser/Serializer, RDF store: RDF data standards and Interoperability of RDF stores , RDF query engines , SPARQL: Query language for RDF , conjunctive Queries for OWL DL ,RDF backed web portals , Data federation .

Ontology Engineering

Constructing Ontologies manually, Reusing Existing Ontologies, Semiautomatic Ontology Acquisition, Ontology Mapping

Course Objective

To Introduce Semantic Web Vision

Course Outcome

["Understand the semantic web Vision and technologies", "Understand about ontology", "Understanding about Data Web(Linked opendata Cloud)"]

Practicals

  • Working with XML

  • Working with XML Schema, DTD

  • Design of Ontology using RDF

  • Design RDF document with different Serialization format (e.g. tutle,N-triple)

  • Design of Ontology using RDFS

  • Design of Ontology using OWL

  • Case study : Pizza Ontology

  • Querying Ontology using SPARQL

  • Case Study : Dbpedia

  • Case study : LOD Cloud

Reference Books

  • Hitzler, Markus, Rudolph , “ Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies” , Chapman & Hall/CRC,2009,ISBN 9781420090505

  • Allemang , Hendler , “ Semantic Web for the working Ontologist” 2nd ed. Elsevier Pub

  • Liang Yu , “ Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services”, Chapman & Hall/CRC

  • Antoniou , Harmelen , “A semantic Web Primer”, PHI Pub.

  • Rajendra Akerkar ,“ Foundations of Semantic Web” , Narosa Publishing ,NewDelhi