MCS2212 Web Semantics
1.
Explain the origins of Semantic Web and understand the basic underlying
technology.
2.
Motivate the need for new mechanisms for representing and using information in
the Web.
3. To teach the students the
concepts, technologies and techniques underlying and making up the Semantic
Web.
At the end of the course, the
student should be able to:
1.
Know what is the “Semantic Web”
2.
Learn some of Semantic Web technologies and applications.
3. Use ontology engineering
approaches in semantic applications
Module |
Lecture No |
Course Topics |
Text Books |
Page No. |
Total Hours |
Credits |
I |
1-6 |
Introduction Semantics for the Semantic
Web: The Implicit, the Formal, and the Powerful, |
5 6 |
1-17 1-25 |
2 |
1 |
The Human Semantic Web:
Shifting from Knowledge Push to Knowledge Pull, |
5 |
22-53 |
2 |
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General Adaptation Framework:
Enabling interoperability for Industrial Web Resources. |
5 |
61-93 |
2 |
|||
II |
7-18 |
Ontology Creation
Methodologies A Survey on Ontology Creation
Methodologies, |
5 |
98-119 |
2 |
1 |
A Tool for Working with Web Ontologies, |
5 |
124-137 |
2 |
|||
An Ontology-Based Multimedia Annotator
for the Semantic Web of Language Engineering, |
5 |
140-159 |
2 |
|||
A Layered Model for Building
Ontology Translation Systems. |
5 |
161-185 |
2 |
|||
Querying the Web
Reconsidered: Design Principles for Versatile Web Query Languages. |
5 |
190-209 |
2 |
|||
III |
19-28 |
Semantic Applications Semantic E-Business, |
5 |
214-231 |
2 |
1 |
A Distributed Patient
Identification Protocol Based on Control Numbers with Semantic Annotation, |
5 |
234-251 |
4 |
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Static and Dynamic Semantics
of the Web, Sources of Dynamic Semantics,
Web Agents Make Use of Dynamic Semantics, Information Retrieval and
Theorem-Proving Perspectives. |
7 |
1-18 |
4 |
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IV |
29-32 |
Semantic Annotation Semantic Annotation for Web
Content Adaptation, External Annotation Framework, Annotation-Based Transcoding System, HTML Page Splitting for Small-Screen
Devices. |
8 |
|
4 |
1 |
Text/Reference
Books:
1. Deitel&Deitel, Goldberg, “Internet
and World Wide Web – How to Program”, Pearson Education Asia, 2001.
2. Eric Ladd, Jim O’ Donnel, “Using HTML 4, XML and JAVA”, Prentice Hall of India .
3. Aferganatel, “Web Programming:
Desktop Management”, PHI, 2004.
4. Rajkamal, “Web Technology”, Tata
McGraw-Hill, 2001.
5. Amit Sheth, Miltiadis Lytras, “Semantic Web-Based Information Systems: State-of-the-Art
Applications”, Cybertech Publishing, 2007.
6. Fensel, D, Hendler,
J. Lieberman, H., Wahlster,
W. (eds.) (2003): Spinning
the Semantic Web- Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential.
Cambridge: MIT Press 2003, pp. 1 - 25.
7. Christopher F, Mike P, Henry
L., Static and Dynamic Semantics of the Web: http://web.media.mit.edu
8. M Hori, R Mohan, H Maruyama, S Singhal, “Annotation of Web Content for Transcoding”,
W3C Note: https://www.w3.org/TR/annot/