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CS17E71 ONTOLOGY AND SEMANTIC WEB L T P C
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OBJECTIVE:
 To depict the overall architecture of semantic web and to illustrate the overview of design principles
and technologies in semantic web.
 To learn the concepts of constructing and reusing ontology.
 To be familiar with the different languages like XML, RDF.
 To depict the semantic relationships using OWL.
 To design and implement a web services application that discovers the data and/or other web services
via the semantic web.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Introduction to the Syntactic Web and Semantic Web – The Semantic Web Vision- From Today’s Web to the
Semantic Web: Examples - Semantic Modeling - Semantic Web Technologies- A Layered Approach.

UNIT II ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 9
Constructing Ontologies Manually - Reusing Existing Ontologies - Natural Language Ontologies - Ontology
Mapping.

UNIT III STRUCTURING AND DESCRIBING WEB RESOURCES 9
Structured Web Documents - XML - Structuring - Namespaces - Addressing - Querying - Processing - RDF
Overview- RDF - RDF Data Model - Serialization Formats - RDF Vocabulary - Inferencing RDFS - basic
Idea - Classes - Properties - Utility Properties.

UNIT IV WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE 9
OWL – Requirements for Ontology Languages- Limitations of the Expressive Power of RDF Schema-
Compatibility of OWL with RDF/RDFS- Sub-Languages – Basic Descriptions - Classes- Defining and Using
Properties - Domain and Range – Describing Properties - Data Types – Counting and Sets in OWL - An
African Wildlife Ontology – Example.

UNIT V SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS 9
Semantic Web Services - Generic Web Service Ontologies: OWL-S, Jena Framework - SPARL - Querying
Semantic Web- Semantic Web Rules Language (SWRL) - Case study - Developing ontology for web services,
practical applications.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
 Describe the architecture of semantic web and its technologies.
 Students acquire knowledge of constructing and reusing ontology.
 Get a systematic treatment of the different languages like XML, RDF.
 Analyze semantic relationship among data using OWL.
 Develop a web services application using semantic web tools and their services.
TEXTBOOKS:
1. Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen, A Semantic Web Primer, Second Edition, MIT Press, 2008.
2. Liyang Yu, A Developer‘s Guide to the Semantic Web, Springer, First Edition, 2011.
3. Dean Allemang and James Hendler, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling
in RDFS and OWL, Second Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
REFERENCES:
1. Michael C. Daconta, Leo J.Obrst and Kevin T. Smith,- The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of
XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management, First Edition, Wiley, 2003
2. John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace and Andrew Perez-opez, -Semantic Web Programming,
First Edition, Wiley, 2009.

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