The term "Semantic Web" was coined in 2001 when Tim Berners Lee (the inventor of the World Wide Web) and others presented a vision of an intelligent web in the "Scientific American". The Semantic Web aims at the development of methods that help to automate the interpretation, aggregation, evaluation and comparison of information on the Web.

The courses provide an overview over existing Semantic Web Technology, especially concerning

1. Standardized markup languages for an explicit and machine processable representation of information content
2. Common, standardized vocabularies for phrasing queries and as a fundament for comparing information (ontologies)
3. Extraction and explicit representation of existing information basing on common vocabularies and standardized annotation languages

• Java programming skills are required to pass this course!
• To pass the course you have to fulfill the following requirements:
• Pass the final exam
• Successfully participate in the practical exercise
• Successfully work in a group on a project idea (programming!) and present the results
• The final grade is determined from the grade achieved in the final exam (60%) and the grade achieved in the exercise sheet and project part (40%, 20% for exercise sheets and 20% for the project)

• Lecture: Dr. Johanna Völker
• Practical Exercise: Daniel Fleischhacker

• Lecture: Mondays 12:00 - 13:30, starting September 6, Room: A2.06
• Practical Exercise: Wednesdays 10:15 - 11:45, starting September 14, Room: A2.06

If you plan to attend this course, please join the corresponding ILIAS group.

The following schedule is tentative!

The lecture schedule is also available in Google Calendar and in iCal format.

• September 5: Welcome and Introduction
• September 12: XML
• September 19: no lecture
• September 26: RDF and RDF Schema
• October 3: no lecture (Day of German Unity)
• October 10: RDF Query Languages
• October 17: Linked Data and Ontologies
• October 24: Presentation of Project Ideas
• October 31: OWL Foundations
• November 7: OWL Reasoning
• November 14: Ontology Engineering
• November 21: Ontology Learning
• November 28: Ontology Alignment
• December 5: Applications (Presentation of Project Results)

All materials, e.g., slides for lecture and practical exercise, as well as the exercise sheets will be published on ILIAS.