Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering
Information Description, Storage and Retrieval
Instance: 2020/2021
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By the end of this class, the student should be able to: ¶

• List the components of an ontology and the related OWL constructs; ¶
• Use the concepts of class and property of OWL to construct models of application domains; ¶
• Create an ontology for a selected domain; ¶
• Represent the ontology using an editing tool. ¶

1. Ontologies ¶
   • Introduction ¶
   • Ontology Development ¶
2. OWL: Web Ontology Language ¶
   • Classes ¶
   • Properties ¶
   • Class descriptions ¶
   • Property restriction  ¶

• W3C, OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation 11 December 2012, last accessed December 2020 ¶

• Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen, A Semantic Web Primer, 2nd edition, The MIT Press, 2008 (chapter 4) ¶
• Protégé. User Documentation, online at Protégé wiki, Protégé Documentation last accessed December 2020 ¶
• Apache Software Foundation, Apache Jena, online at Apache, last accessed December 2020 ¶
• GraphDB Semantic Graph Database, online at GraphDB, last accessed December 2020 ¶
• Clark & Parsia, Pellet: An Open Source OWL DL reasoner for Java, last accessed December 2020 ¶

• Make an iteration over the ontology for the domain; ¶
• Use the Protégé tool to represent the ontology, validate it and make inferences; ¶
• Explore the ontology with sample queries; ¶
• Consider your datasets as an input for populating the ontology. ¶

• OWL: Web Ontology Language. Classes. Properties. Class descriptions. Property restrictions. ¶
• Work on Milestone 3 in the Course Project, “Semantic Web”. ¶
• Exploitation of ontologies. ¶

— JCL, MCR, SSN ¶

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