A bunch of introductory links for students doing a thesis in the Semantic Web area (in no particular order).
What would be your picks?
A bunch of introductory links for students doing a thesis in the Semantic Web area (in no particular order).
What would be your picks?
October 12th, 2006 at 5:23 am
We’d pick Swoogle, of course. http://swoogle.umbc.edu/.
October 12th, 2006 at 5:25 am
The previous we is me, in this instance, at least.
October 12th, 2006 at 8:15 am
I would add the nice SPARQL / Maps hack by Leigh Dodds, its a perfect mashup that shows the power of RDF: http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000282.html
And, If you teach other students, never forget D2RQ, perhaps someone will pick up the ball…
October 12th, 2006 at 8:24 am
SemWeb introductionary websites by Richard Cyganiak…
Cygri posted some websites that show how the Semantic Web may work.
He collects them using the del.icio.us tag “semwebintro”, which I copy from him, so you find a list with more contributions (or also yours?) here:
del.icio.us/tag/semwebintro
The …
October 12th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
I had a crack a while at Semantic Web Starting Points, which could do with updating with the rdf:about material and the updated xml.com What is RDF? piece. Also maybe some of Bijan KR intro stuff plus the What is a Knowledge Representation? paper, hmm maybe John Sowa’s Mathematical Background too. I vaguely remember Shelley did some tutorial stuff not long ago, probably particularly good for PHP/MySQL-heads.
What I’d really like to see is a dynamic tutorial builder, so you’d fill in a form for what you were interested in & what you knew already, and the result would look something like this. Shouldn’t be too hard to make, and if you included something like a smarter version of del.icio.us tagging you could let other people put together the metadata…
October 12th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
A practical demonstration of shared ontologies that demonstrates the essence of the Semantic Web’s “Web of Databases” aspect. See: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/ODSSIOCRef
Note that this page includes SPARQL Protocol links to a live demo instance for each of the queries. It is also a live document.
You may also consider: http://demo.openlinksw.com/sparql_demo/ (a live Interactive SPARQL Query Service).
October 12th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Oh yeah, Kingsley got a point : showing is more effective than telling…
October 13th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Nice idea.
What about adding:
Li and Tim’s paper about Characterizing the Semantic Web http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/filedirectory_/papers/295.pdf which gives a nice overview about the current development status of the Semantic Web and clearly states that everything that is not ON THE WEB has nothing to do with the Semantic Web.
A link to a toolkit list might also be interesting for students, for example http://esw.w3.org/topic/SemanticWebTools or http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/toolkits/index.htm
Chris