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Welcome – VU Semantische Technologien 2012 ( 707.011). Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Wolfgang Kienreich October 11, 2012. English or German?. Slides will be in English – but if all students are German- speaking the course will be in German!. What you will hear today ….
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Welcome – VU Semantische Technologien 2012 (707.011) Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Wolfgang Kienreich October 11, 2012
English or German? • Slides will be in English – but if all studentsare German-speakingthecourse will be in German!
Whatyou will heartoday… • Who arewe? • Whatwill youlearn? • Howisthecourseorganised? • How will yougetgraded? • Introduction and Motivation to Semantic Technologies
We… • Work also attheKnow-Center (and theKnowledge Technologies Institute ofcourse) • Haveimplemented, acquired, managedmany innovative knowledgetechnologyprojects (industry and research)
What will youlearn? • Data modelling • Semantic technologies • Relatedtopics
Howisthecourseorganised? • Workshop-style Lectures (full 3hrs incl break): • 1: Conceptual and logical ER models,(Oct. 25) • 2: RDF, XML and Notation 3 (Nov 8) • 3: RDF(S), First Order Logic, OWL(Nov 15) • 4: Querying: Xquery, Xpath, SPARQL (Nov 22) • Lectures (approx 1hr lecture + 1hr consultation): • 5: JAVA APIs forreading, writing, storing RDF and triplestores (Nov 29 – guestlecture Franjo Bratic/Alfred Wertner) + voluntaryhomeassignmentAssignment Start (Nov 29) • 6: TBD – probablyLinkedOpen Data (Dec6) • 7: TBD – probably Visual Analytics (Dec 13) • 8: TBD – probably Web 2.0 and Semantic Technologies (Jan 10) • 9: TBD (Jan 17)Assignment Submission (Jan 17) • 10: Assignmentpresentation and discussion (Jan 24)
How will yougetgraded? • Compulsoryattendanceandinvolvement in lectures 1-5 and 10 (final presentation and discussion) • 1 Non-attendancepermitted IF clearedwithinstructors • Fulfillassignment (start on Nov 29 – end on Jan 17) • The assignment will bepresented in detail, includinggradingcriteria, on Nov 29. Itisa programmingassignmentthatinvolves a bitofeverythingyouhavelearned in lectures 1-5. • Grading will bebased on assignment. • Present and discussassignment (Jan 24) • The presentation will not begraded, but isa defense/discussionofyourwork.
A note on communication and workethics… • Communication opportunities: Weekly in class and per mail (responsemay also takesome time!) • Duringtheassignment, taketheopportunitytotalktous after thelectures (7-10) • Mail: VUSemTech@know-center.at Work Ethics • Weexpectyouto do thework on yourown (group) • Ifwe find out thatyouhavecopiedyourwork, thegradingis negative.
Who does NOT have a laptop? Lectures 1-5 areplannedworkshop-style – Bring YouOwn Laptop