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- Introduction to Semantic Web standards and Linked data technologies
- Resource Description Framework
- Graph-based data model representation and core concepts
- Terse RDF Triple Language
- Advanced RDF features
- Best practices on publishing RDF data
- RDF Schema (RDFS)
- Discussion of the added value of a schema driven by examples
- Syntax of the core features: classes, properties and their characteristics
- Relationships between RDFS vocabulary elements
- Computing answers to typical queries over RDFS datasets
- Using Protege for modeling and querying RDFS datasets
- Limitations of RDFS
- Querying Semantic Web with SPARQL
- Core concepts
- Basic graph patterns
- Querying datasets with the SPARQL engine StarDog
- Filters and SPARQL expressions
- Property path expressions
- Complex graph patterns with advanced features such as optional parts, aggregation and ordering Other query types
- Updating with SPARQL
- OWL Web Ontology Language
- Core concepts and differences to RDFS
- Overview of OWL modeling constructs
- Modeling and assessing the benefits of alternative models in a particular application context Substitutability of modeling constructs
- Discussion of the trade-off between the expressivity of modeling languages and the computational efficiency of querying
- OWL profiles
- Limitations of the expressive power of OWL
- Applications of Semantic Technologies in Practice
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