CSC498 - Semantic Web - Syllabus - Fall 2005

Nadeem Abdul Hamid - Berry College

Topic and Lecture Notes Reading Assignments Due

Mon Aug 22: Introduction

Wed Aug 31: XML

Chapter 2 in A Semantic Web Primer
The Semantic Web T. Berners-Lee, et al. Scientific American, May 2001.
A Technical Introduction to XML N. Walsh.

(For reference: XML 1.0 (Second Edition)

Tue Sep 6: XML (cont.)

XML Namespaces by Example Tim Bray.
Xerces Java

(For reference: Namespaces in XML)

Thu Sep 22: XSLT, RDF

Chapter 1 (skim)

Mon Sep 26: Homework 2 Due

Tue Sep 27: RDF Chapter 3 in A Semantic Web Primer; Chapter 4 in Spinning the Semantic Web

Tue Oct 4: Ontologies Chapter 4 in A Semantic Web Primer; Chapter 6 in Spinning the Semantic Web

October - November: Tools and Technologies

Simile Project
Web site (especially PiggyBank project)

N3 primer - at this web site

JENA - Java SW framework - web site
(RDF tutorial, ontologies API)

SMORE, SWOOP projects at MindSwap.org

Fri Nov 25: ***PROJECT DUE*** Project Due

Berry College

Topic and Lecture Notes	Reading	Assignments Due
Mon Aug 22: Introduction
Wed Aug 31: XML	Chapter 2 in A Semantic Web Primer The Semantic Web T. Berners-Lee, et al. Scientific American, May 2001. A Technical Introduction to XML N. Walsh. (For reference: XML 1.0 (Second Edition)
Tue Sep 6: XML (cont.)	XML Namespaces by Example Tim Bray. Xerces Java (For reference: Namespaces in XML)
Thu Sep 22: XSLT, RDF	Chapter 1 (skim)
Mon Sep 26:		Homework 2 Due
Tue Sep 27: RDF	Chapter 3 in A Semantic Web Primer; Chapter 4 in Spinning the Semantic Web
Tue Oct 4: Ontologies	Chapter 4 in A Semantic Web Primer; Chapter 6 in Spinning the Semantic Web
October - November: Tools and Technologies	Simile Project Web site (especially PiggyBank project) N3 primer - at this web site JENA - Java SW framework - web site (RDF tutorial, ontologies API) SMORE, SWOOP projects at MindSwap.org
Fri Nov 25:	*PROJECT DUE*	Project Due