Unit I
Introduction to the Syntactic web and Semantic Web - Evolution of the Web - The visual and syntactic web - Levels of Semantics - Taxonomies - Logics for Semantic Web - The semantic web architecture and technologies - Applications of the Semantic Web.
Unit II
Ontological Engineering: What are Ontologies - Methods and methodologies for building ontologies - Ontology Development process and Life cycle - Methods for Ontology Learning - Ontology Evolution - Versioning - Ontology Languages.
Unit III
Editing tools for ontology creation - Protege - OntoEdit - DOE - IsaViz - Ontolingua Altova Semantic Works - OilEd - WebODE - pOWL - Swoop.
Unit IV
The Key Semantic Web Ontology Languages - Semantic Reasoning - Logical Implications and Descriptions - Technical Interpretations of classes and predicates.
Unit V
Case Study: Resource Discovery In a Building - Reasoning about Knowledge Base and Ontologies - Semantic search Engines Based on Data Integration Systems.
Text Book(s)
1."Semantic Web Services - Theory, Tools and Applications" - Jorge Cardoso - Information Science Reference - 2007 References
1. " Agency and the Semantic Web" - Christopher Walton, Oxford Univ Press 2007
2. "Semantic Web Technologies and e-Business" - AF Salam and Jason R Stevens - Idea Group Publications - 2007