SWBP&D WG Semantic Web Tutorials

Overview

This page provides a central collection of Semantic Web tutorial resources for interested readers and is maintained by the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group.

Suggestions, comments and additions for this page can be made by mailing Benjamin Nguyen. You should also copy comments to www-archive@w3.org for archival purposes.

General Semantic Web

The following is a listing of general overviews and introductions to the semantic web. More specific overviews and tutorials are available below.

• Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web
• Tutorial on Basic Semantic Web Technologies
• An no-nonsense guide to Semantic Web specs for XML people (Part I)
• The Second European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (under Slides)
• What is RDF?
• The Semantic Web and RDF explained (FAQ)
• The Semantic Web In Breadth
• Material from the course 'Foundations of the Semantic Web'
• Material from the course 'Logics for the Web'
• Material from the course 'The Semantic Web: Ontologies and OWL'
• Material from a course on the Semantic Web
• The Semantic Web in Ten Passages

Best Practices

• ISWC Ontologies Overview & Best Practices

Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Tutorials

• Resource Description Framework (RDF) / W3C Semantic Web activity
• RDF Primer
• Dave Beckett's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resource Guide, specifically the section on tutorials
• Primer: Getting into RDF & Semantic Web using N3
• Semantic Web Tutorial Using N3
• W3Schools RDF Tutorial, includes minor OWL content
• The R in RSS1.0

Recommendations

The following is a list of W3C recommendations on RDF, taken verbatim from W3C RDF/ Semantic Web activity page.

• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)
  W3C Recommendation
  Dave Beckett, ed.
• RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema
  W3C Recomendation
  Dan Brickley, R.V. Guha, eds.
• RDF Primer
  W3C Recommendation
  Frank Manola, Eric Miller, eds.
• Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax
  W3C Recommendation
  Graham Klyne, Jeremy Carroll, eds.
• RDF Semantics
  W3C Recommendation
  Patrick Hayes, ed.
• RDF Test Cases
  W3C Recommendation
  Jan Grant, Dave Beckett, eds.

Web Ontology Language (OWL) & Ontologies

Tutorials

• OWL Web Ontology Language Guide
• A Practical Guide To Building OWL Ontologies Using The Protégé-OWL Plugin and CO-ODE Tools
• The Semantic Web: Ontologies and OWL course materials
• Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology
• Description Logics Course
• Tutorial on OWL
• Ontologies Overview

Recommendations

The following is a list of W3C recommendations on OWL, taken verbatim from the W3C's Web Ontology Language (OWL) page.

• OWL Web Ontology Language Overview
  W3C Recommendation 10 Feb 2004. Deborah L. McGuinness and Frank van Harmelen eds.

  formerly Feature Synopsis for OWL Lite and OWL

  The OWL Web Ontology Language is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDF-S) by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. OWL has three increasingly-expressive sublanguages: OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full.

• OWL Web Ontology Language Guide

  W3C Recommendation 10 Feb 2004. Smith, Welty, McGuinness, eds.

• OWL Web Ontology Language Reference
  

  W3C Recommendation 10 Feb 2004, 12 November 2002. Dean, Schreiber, eds.

• OWL Web Ontology Language Semantics and Abstract Syntax

  W3C Recommendation 10 Feb 2004. Patel-Schneider, Hayes, Horrocks, eds.

• OWL Web Ontology Language Test Cases
  

  W3C Recommendation 10 Feb 2004. Jeremy J. Carroll, Jos De Roo, eds.

• OWL Web Ontology Language Use Cases and Requirements
  

  W3C Recommendation 10 Feb 2004. Jeff Heflin, ed.

• OWL Web Ontology Language XML Presentation Syntax .

  Masahiro Hori, Jérôme Euzenat, Peter F. Patel-Schneider. W3C Note 11 June 2003

Sample Ontologies

The following is a listing of sample ontologies (see also the OWL Ontologies section).

• Protégé OWL Plugin - Ontologies
• SchemaWeb Directory
• DAML Ontology Library

Web Services

Overview

TODO: Provide an overview of the Semantic Web web services tutorial space.

Recommendations

TODO: Provide links to the W3C recommendations.

RDF in XTHML

Overview

TODO: Provide an overview of the RDF in XHTML tutorial space.

Recommendations

TODO: Provide links to the W3C recommendations and task force efforts.

Friend of a Friend

• the friend of a friend (foaf) project

Description Logic

• Description Logics: Basics, Applications and More

Tools

The following is a collection of links to tutorials on semantic web tookits and APIs.

• An Introduction to RDF and the Jena RDF API
• Kowari Tutorial (under Kowari Documentation)
• Getting Started with the SOFA API
• RDF API for PHP Tutorials
• GraphPath Python Tutorial
• The Bossam rule engine

Other Resource Collections

The following is a collection of other resources pages, similar to this page.

• CO-ODE/HyOntUse Resources
• Dave Beckett's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resource Guide
• Jeff Z. Pan's list of resources on the Semantic Web
• REASE is the conventional EASE repository for learning objects in the area of Semantic Web, it is intended to support the creation and sharing of knowledge for Higher Education in the areas Semantic Web and Ontology technologies.

Benjamin Nguyen, INRIA-Futurs
on behalf of the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group
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