COMP 6531 – Additional Course Information

Textbook

• Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies (Hardcover)
  by P. Hitzler, S. Rudolph, M. Kroetzsch, 456 pages,
  Chapman & Hall/CRC;  1 edition (Aug 6 2009); ISBN-10: 142009050X, ISBN-13: 978-1420090505.
  

Other Books

• Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential
  by D. Fensel (Editor), et al; Hardcover - 392 pages 1 edition (February 1, 2003)
  M.I.T. Press/Triliteral ; ISBN: 0262062321.
• A Semantic Web Primer
  by G. Antoniou and F. van Harmelen; Hardcover - 258 pages;
  The MIT Press; 2nd edition (Mar 21 2008).
  
• The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management
  by M.C. Daconta, et al; Paperback - 312 pages 1 edition (May 16, 2003)
  John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. ; ISBN: 0471432571.
• Semantic Web: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (Hardcover)
  by K.K. Breitman, M.A. Casanova, W. Truszkowski; Hardcover - 330 pages;
  Springer-Verlag; 1 edition (Dec 18 2006).
• Semantic Web Programming (Paperback)
  by M. Dean, M. Fisher, R. Blace, J. Hebeler, A. Perez-Lopez; Paperback: 648 pages
  Wiley (Mar 27 2009); ISBN-10: 047041801X, ISBN-13: 978-0470418017.
• Programming the Semantic Web
  by Toby Segaran, Colin Evans and Jamie Taylor (Paperback - Jul 21 2009)
• Semantic Web Programming
  by John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace and Andrew Perez-Lopez (Paperback - Mar 27 2009)
  
• Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL (Paperback)
  by D. Allemang, J. Hendler, Paperback: 352 pages
  Morgan Kaufmann (May 20 2011), ISBN-10: 0123735564, ISBN-13: 978-0123735560.

Semantic Web

• Semantic Web Portal
• W3C Semantic Web
• Semantic Web Reference Card
  

Description Logics

1. D. Nardi, R. J. Brachman.  An Introduction to Description Logics. In the Description Logic Handbook, edited by F. Baader, D. Calvanese, D.L. McGuinness, D. Nardi, P.F. Patel-Schneider, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pages 5-44.
2. F. Baader, W. Nutt. Basic Description Logics. In the Description Logic Handbook, edited by F. Baader, D. Calvanese, D.L. McGuinness, D. Nardi, P.F. Patel-Schneider, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pages 47-100.
3. Enrico Franconi, Online Course on Description Logics.
4. Ian Horrocks, Ulrike Sattler. Description Logics. Tutorial given at ECAI-2002, Lyon, France, July 23rd, 2002. 
5. Carsten Lutz and Ulrike Sattler. A Description Logics Course given at ESSLLI 2002.
   

Reading material on XML

• XML basics
  
• What is XML?
• Annotated XML Specification
• XML 1.1 Recommendation
• XML document type definitions (DTDs)
  
• DTD Tutorial
• XML entities
• XML Entities & Applications
• XML namespaces
• XML Namespaces by Example
• Namespaces in XML 1.1
• XML schema
• What is XML Schema?
• XML Bible Chapter 24: Schemas
• XML Schema Part 0: Primer
• XML Schema Part 1: Structures
• XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
  

Reading material on RDF

• What is RDF?
• An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework
• RDF Primer
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• RDF Schema Specification

Reading material on ontologies (compiled by Arash Shaban-Nejad)

Reading material on OWL (Web Ontology Language)

• Tutorial on OWL 1
  
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview
• Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web
• Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: Use With Individuals

Ontology Tools

• Protégé OWL
• Protégé OWL version 4
• Manchester OWL Syntax (used by Protégé OWL version 4)
• A Practical Guide To Building OWL Ontologies Using The Protege-OWL Plugin (Version 4)
• TopBraid Composer
• Tutorial: Getting Started with TopBraid Composer