Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff: Semantic Modeling

Week	Class Meeting
	Tuesdays 14:45-17:15 WH C 537	Exercise due as indicated	Materials that might be useful for addressing the topics before class
15	07. 04.	Session 1 Introduction to Semantic Modelling and the Semantic Web	Lab 1: GeoNames Due week 16	Lotico: a Semantic Social Network that brings Location,Time, Community and concepts together Sinclair Target, Whatever happened to the Semantic Web?, 27 May 2018
16	14. 04.	Session 2 What is the Semantic Web supposed to be? What can I do with it? Does ChatGPT use the Semantic Web? CT?	Lab 2: Hello Semantic World Web Due week 17	Read T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, and O. Lassila. The Semantic Web. Scientific American 284 (May 2001): 34-43 George Sivulka, SemanticSearch + ChatGPT, 13 December 2022 Will the Semantic Web Change Education? Kendall Clark, Bijan Parsia, and Jim Hendler Denny Vrandečić on "Knowledge in the Age of AI" (YouTube lecture at King's College, April 5, 2025)
17	21. 04.	Session 3 Modelling Information with RDF	Lab 3: RDF Due week 18	RDF Primer RDF 1.2 Working Draft, 27 March 2025 Validating RDF with Data Shapes (20 minutes video) Jose Emilio Labra Gayo & Eric Prud’hommeaux
18	28. 04.	Session 4 Introduction to Ontologies Schöffe?	Lab 4: My First Ontology Due week 20	A. Johannes Pretorius, Ontologies - Introduction and Overview. From an unpublished Master's Thesis. Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness, Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology Ian Horrocks. 2008. Ontologies and the semantic web. Commun. ACM 51, 12 (December 2008), 58-67. DOI=10.1145/1409360.1409377 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409360.1409377 to the Moodle area! WebVowl
19	05. 05.	Session 5 Basic OWL Vancouver		Browse through W3C Semantic Web & Semanticweb.org I will be using Allemang & Hendler, Chapter 9, and the nice slides from Antoniou and van Harmelen. Ian Horrocks: "KR and the Semantic Web: What We Did Right (and Wrong)" Some interesting Wikipedia pages: Semantic Nets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network Conceptual Graphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_graph Description Logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_logic Concept Maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map Topic Maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_map RDF and RDFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework OWL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language Knowledge Graphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_graph Labeled Property Graphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_graph
20	12. 05.	Session 6 Counting and sets in OWL Finding problems in an ontology CT?	Lab 5: OWL Pizzeria Due week 21	Allemang & Hendler Chapter 10 (Slides)
21	19. 05.	Session 7 OWL inference Ontology Alignment	Lab 6: Ontology Queries Due week 22	I will be using Hebeler Chapter 5
22	26. 05.	Session 8 Logic Non-Monotonic reasoning	Lab 7: Logic Due week 23	Aristotles, De interpretatione Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble. Introduction to Logic, especially chapter 5 Lewis Carroll puzzles
23	02. 06.	Session 9 Wikidata SPARQL	Lab 8: WikiData Due week 24	An Introduction to SPARQL Video: SPARQL in 11 minutes SPARQL for Humanists SPARQL Wikibook WikiData - Wikidata glossary Lurk on #wikidata @ libera Evenstein Sigalov, S., Nachmias, R. (2023). Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform. Educ Inf Technol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-11664-1
24	09. 06.	Session 10 Setting up our WikiProject projects CT?		Wikidata:WikiProjects Current project: Government project, Govdirectory Wikiproject, govdirectory.org Old projects: Degrees project - Hospitals project Uploading with QuickStatements (Help) Wikidata Map difference 2021-2023
25	16. 06.	Session 11 Research on your project in the groups.
26	23. 06.	Session 12 Linked (Open) Data Ethical implications of LOD	Lab 9: Linked Open Data Due week 27	Linked Data on Wikipedia LOD Cloud Introduction to Linked Data. European Commission 2014 Blaney, J. (2017, modified 2021). Introduction to the Principles of Linked Open Data, in Programming Historian [Web site] Berners-Lee, T. (2006). Linked Data. [Web site] https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html Edquist, A., Gernnan, L., Griffiths, S. & Rowshankish, K. (2022, September 23). Data Ethics: What it means and what it takes. [Web site] https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/data-ethics-what-it-means-and-what-it-takes Allison-Cassin, S. & Scott,MD. (2018). Wikidata a platform for your library's linked open data
27	30. 06.	Session 13 Project work in the lab
28	07. 07.	Session 14 Project work in the lab BIDT München
29	14. 07.	Session 15 Project work in the lab
30	21. 07.	Session 16 The future of Semantic Web: Intelligent Agents?		Paul R. Smart, Paula C. Engelbrecht, Dave Braines, Michael Strub & James A. Hendler. (2009). Cognitive Extension and the Web. Web Science Conference: Society On-Line, Athens, Greece. 18 - 20 Mar 2009. Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, & Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web Revisited, IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(3) pp. 96– 101, Jan.-Feb. 2006 Cambridge Semantics: Semantic Web Misconceptions (archive.org link) Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West: MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? How to thrive in a ChatGPt world.
31	28. 07.	Session 17 Project presentations

Week

Class Meeting

Tuesdays
14:45-17:15
WH C 537

Exercise
due as indicated

Materials that might be useful for addressing the topics before class

07.
04.

Session 1
Introduction to Semantic Modelling and the Semantic Web

Lab 1:
GeoNames

Due week 16

Lotico: a Semantic Social Network that brings Location,Time, Community and concepts together

Sinclair Target, Whatever happened to the Semantic Web?, 27 May 2018

14.
04.

Session 2
What is the Semantic Web supposed to be?
What can I do with it?
Does ChatGPT use the Semantic Web?

CT?

Lab 2:
Hello Semantic World Web

Due week 17

Read T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, and O. Lassila. The Semantic Web. Scientific American 284 (May 2001): 34-43

George Sivulka, SemanticSearch + ChatGPT, 13 December 2022

Will the Semantic Web Change Education?
Kendall Clark, Bijan Parsia, and Jim Hendler

Denny Vrandečić on "Knowledge in the Age of AI"
(YouTube lecture at King's College, April 5, 2025)

21.
04.

Session 3
Modelling Information with RDF

Lab 3: RDF

Due week 18

RDF Primer

RDF 1.2 Working Draft, 27 March 2025

Validating RDF with Data Shapes (20 minutes video)
Jose Emilio Labra Gayo & Eric Prud’hommeaux

28.
04.

Session 4
Introduction to Ontologies

Schöffe?

Lab 4: My First Ontology

Due week 20

A. Johannes Pretorius, Ontologies - Introduction and Overview. From an unpublished Master's Thesis.

Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness, Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology

Ian Horrocks. 2008. Ontologies and the semantic web. Commun. ACM 51, 12 (December 2008), 58-67. DOI=10.1145/1409360.1409377 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409360.1409377 to the Moodle area!

WebVowl

05.
05.

Session 5

Basic OWL

Vancouver

Browse through W3C Semantic Web & Semanticweb.org I will be using Allemang & Hendler, Chapter 9, and the nice slides from Antoniou and van Harmelen.

Ian Horrocks: "KR and the Semantic Web: What We Did Right (and Wrong)"

Some interesting Wikipedia pages:

Semantic Nets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network
Conceptual Graphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_graph
Description Logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_logic
Concept Maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map
Topic Maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_map
RDF and RDFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
OWL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language
Knowledge Graphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_graph
Labeled Property Graphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_graph

12.
05.

Session 6
Counting and sets in OWL

Finding problems in an ontology

CT?

Lab 5:
OWL Pizzeria

Due week 21

Allemang & Hendler Chapter 10 (Slides)

19.
05.

Session 7
OWL inference
Ontology Alignment

Lab 6:
Ontology Queries

Due week 22

I will be using Hebeler Chapter 5

26.
05.

Session 8
Logic
Non-Monotonic reasoning

Lab 7:
Logic

Due week 23

Aristotles, De interpretatione

Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble. Introduction to Logic, especially chapter 5

Lewis Carroll puzzles

02.
06.

Session 9

Wikidata

SPARQL

Lab 8:
WikiData

Due week 24

An Introduction to SPARQL

Video: SPARQL in 11 minutes

SPARQL for Humanists

SPARQL Wikibook

WikiData - Wikidata glossary

Lurk on #wikidata @ libera

Evenstein Sigalov, S., Nachmias, R. (2023). Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform. Educ Inf Technol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-11664-1

09.
06.

Session 10
Setting up our
WikiProject projects

CT?

Wikidata:WikiProjects

Current project: Government project, Govdirectory Wikiproject, govdirectory.org

Old projects: Degrees project - Hospitals project

Uploading with QuickStatements (Help)

Wikidata Map difference 2021-2023

16.
06.

Session 11

Research on your project in the groups.

23.
06.

Session 12

Linked (Open) Data
Ethical implications of LOD

Lab 9:
Linked Open Data

Due week 27

Linked Data on Wikipedia

LOD Cloud

Introduction to Linked Data. European Commission 2014

Blaney, J. (2017, modified 2021). Introduction to the Principles of Linked Open Data, in Programming Historian [Web site]

Berners-Lee, T. (2006). Linked Data. [Web site] https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

Edquist, A., Gernnan, L., Griffiths, S. & Rowshankish, K. (2022, September 23). Data Ethics: What it means and what it takes. [Web site] https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/data-ethics-what-it-means-and-what-it-takes

Allison-Cassin, S. & Scott,MD. (2018). Wikidata a platform for your library's linked open data

30.
06.

Session 13

Project work in the lab

07.
07.

Session 14

Project work in the lab

BIDT München

14.
07.

Session 15

Project work in the lab

21.
07.

Session 16

The future of Semantic Web: Intelligent Agents?

Paul R. Smart, Paula C. Engelbrecht, Dave Braines, Michael Strub & James A. Hendler. (2009). Cognitive Extension and the Web. Web Science Conference: Society On-Line, Athens, Greece. 18 - 20 Mar 2009.

Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, & Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web Revisited, IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(3) pp. 96– 101, Jan.-Feb. 2006

Cambridge Semantics: Semantic Web Misconceptions (archive.org link)

Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West: MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? How to thrive in a ChatGPt world.

28.
07.

Session 17
Project presentations