Readings for Ontology, Search and RDF Lecture.

Please review the following material:

Ontology

• Paper by Jos de Bruijn entitled: Using Ontologies: Enabling Knowledge Sharing and Reuse on the Semantic Web. Tech Report of Digital Enterprise Research Institute, October 2003. (1.5 Megabytes)
• Dr. John Sowa's site devoted to Ontology
• Ontology Slides (Courtesy of Dr. Tim Finin, UMBC)
• Visit WordNet at Princeton University, Cyc Corporation 
• Kerschberg and Weishar, "Conceptual Model and Architectures for Advanced Information Systems," Applied Intelligence 13, 2, pp. 149-164.

Search

• Kerschberg, Kim and Scime, "WebSifter II: A Personalizable Meta-Search Agent based on Semantic Weighted Taxonomy Tree," 2001 International Conference on Internet Computing, IC 2001, Las Vegas, 25-28 June 2001.
•  New: Version of WebSifter paper, Invited Presentation at NASA's Workshop on Radical Software Agents, Tysons Corner, Virginia, January 2002.
• WebSifter PowerPoint Presentation

Resource Description Framework (RDF)

• RDF Tutorial by Pierre-Antoine Champin of the University of Lyon.  

There is also a PDF version that prints well.

Definition of the concept of "Reification"

NEW: RDF Slide for a Cultural Portal Schema from the paper RQL: A Functional Query Language for RDF, by Karvounarakis, et al., in Gray, P.M.D., Kerschberg, L., King, P. and Poulovassilis, A. The Functional Approach to Data Management. Springer, Heidelberg, 2003.

• RDF Model and Syntax Specification with Examples

• RDF Schema Specification
• RDF Examples including PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata)

• XML Slides from Korth and Silbershatz Book.
• XML Schema (Part 1: Structures)
• XML Schema (Part 2: Datatypes)

• Comparison of XML Schema,  RDF Schema and DAML (DARPA Agent markup Language)