CS646 2004
Some Additional useful links on Ontologies and the Semantic Web
This is very much work in progress. The patterns that are used in this course are either adapted from this group or in the course of being submitted to it. The archives of the mailing list are a good source of issues.
Up to date again after a period in limbo
Likewise relaunched after a period in limbo. Still under construction.
A wide variety of projects including the prize winning project and demo analysing Computer Science world-wide in terms of the ACM ontology using information scraped from the Web. Also a link to the MIAKT project, one of the most publicised of the E-Science/Semantic Web projects.
Both part of AKT and a major group in their own right. The Buddy Space Project is particularly well known.
A major project in which this department is partners
Another major European project in which we are partners. Includes links back to the predecessor OntoWeb whose portal is at least
temporarily defunct.
Another major project whose FLINK wone the ISWC first prize. ( http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/swc/ and http://prauw.cs.vu.nl:8080/flink/ contact Peter Mika http://www.cs.vu.nl/~pmika/ ).Frank's home page is useful and is at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/
One of the prize winning projects from the recent International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Unfortunately the main site is only in Finnish, but you can get a good idea of what it is doing even without the language. Lots of eye candy.
A nice project and good demo of the semantic web, but the site is sometimes down. Worth trying a second time if it is.
One of the other co-chairs of the WebOnt Committee with a very active group at University of Maryland.
Lots of material, some of it very technical
Particularly useful, although it uses a different vocabulary than used in this course is the 'short' versions of the paper on Dolce at http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/DOLCE2.1-FOL.doc . Don't worry too much about the detailed logical formalism unless that is what you are really interested in, but the overview is excellent.
They take a very different view of ontologies from that taught in this course, but provide many useful references.
Lots of material on Description Logics, Semantics and Related especially their links to databases
ISWC 2004 (International Semantic Web Conference)
Proceedings available through John Rylands Electronic Journals Services, LNCS 3298 (only available through campus network) http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/splb.pl?105633
IBM AlphaWorks Emerging Technologies -> Semantics http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/topics/semantics