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Over the course of the past few years, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has ratified a number of standards for information sharing on the web that have come to be know of as the Semantic Web. These standards provide a smooth technology adoption path from basic information representation on the web up to a fully integrated web of linked data. This tutorial presents the basics of Linked Data, and shows how the W3C Standards contribute to the realization of this goal.

Content and Schedule

This half-day tutorial will include lectures and exercises on the following topics:

• Linked data - concepts, prerequisites and adoption
• Semantic Web standards: RDF, RDFS and OWL. Division of labor between the standards.
• Relationship between Semantic Web data and other conventional forms (Spreadsheets, Relational Databases, XML)
• Querying Semantic Data with SPARQL
• Vocabularies as Distributed Data - Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
• Semantic Web tooling and applications

Prerequisites

This is an introductory tutorial, and presumes no prerequisites.

This tutorial provides prerequisite information for the companion tutorial, Building Semantic Web Applications for Government

Technical Requirements and Software

To Be Determined.

About the presenters

Dean Allemang specializes in innovative applications of knowledge technology and brings to TopQuadrant over 15 years of experience in research, deployment, and development of knowledge-based systems. He developed the curriculum for Top Quadrant's successful training series for Semantic Web technologies, which he has been presenting to customers world-wide for four years. Dean has completed a master's degree at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall scholar, a PhD at the Ohio State University as a National Science Foundation Graduate Scholar, and is a two-time winner of the Swiss Prize for Innovation in Technology. Along with Prof. Jim Hendler, Dean is co-author of the successful Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2008), already in second printing and translated into Korean.

Course Resources

To Be Determined

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