MISM 516 - Taxonomies, Ontologies and Semantic Web

 

Course Description

 

      The internet has brought forth with it, the tools to publish and create information. This can be seen in the phenomenal popularity of blogs, wiki and other user driven content media, on account of which  there has been high information overload. Information retrieval would be much easier in the over crowded web, if the information is integrated intelligently, where the meaning of the page is stated explicitly. This is called as Semantic Web. Taxonomies and Ontologies would in turn facilitate the definition markups in building up the Semantics. A Semantic web would facilitate the integration and communication between the various widgets available online and makes web searching more intelligent.

 

Course Outline

 

  • Knowledge Organization Systems – Term Lists; Classification and categorization systems; Relationship Models
  • Taxonomy – Descriptive taxonomies; Navigational taxonomies; Data management vocabulary; Role of taxonomies in content management;Building and maintaining taxonomies
  • Semantic Web Vision
  • Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web – RDFS, OWL, OIL and DAML+OIL
  • Ontology Query Languages – RDQL, SeRQL
  • Ontology Editing Tools
  • Ontology – Inference and Reasoning
  • Ontology – Application and techniques

 

Study Materials