The course presents Semantic web technologies, making the student able to design and implement knowledge bases based on ontologies encoded with Semantic Web languages, and offered access as Linked Data.
• The architecture of the Web and the Semantic Web stack; URI.
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema
• The query language SPARQL
• Linked data: creation of data sets from DB relations; access.
• Web Ontology Language (OWL): syntax and semantics
• Top ontologies: main definitions and examples (DOLCE and CRM)
• Specific ontologies, such as semantic sensor networks.
• Extraction of knowledge from KB’s (DBpedia, Freebase)
• Project consisting in the creation of ontologies (use of Protegé).