The goal of this lecture with assignments is to provide deeper insights into languages, standards and technologies of the Semantic Web. The special focus here lies on formal Semantics. Further we will show how these standards can be used for inference and querying on the Web, Semantic Web search and Linked Data.
The lecture will start consist of both lectures and a practical part:Lectures: i) The Semantic Web - Lecture Overview and Bird's View on RDF(S), OWL & SPARQL ii) RDF Semantics in detail iii) SPARQL in detail iv) SPARQL 1.1 v) Higher Entailment regimes: Semantics of RDF Schema & OWL2 vi) Open Data & Linked Data vii) Linked Data: Real applications and ToolsThe lectures will be accompanied by tutorials and a final project to be conducted in groups of 2-3.
The date for the preliminary meeting is Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 9:00 am.
The course will be held in November and December 2014.
