CS646 2004
Some Additional useful links on Ontologies and the Semantic Web

The Semantic Web

Best Practices Working Group: Current activity and an index to tutorials and tools.   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/

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.

W3C OWL page - a variety of references and tools http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/

W3C Semantic Web Page:   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Up to date again after a period in limbo

The Semantic Web.org page   http://labs.semanticweb.org/relaunch2004-home

Likewise relaunched after a period in limbo.  Still under construction.

OWL/WebOnt and all the official papers: The official source  http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/

Staff with information on their web pages - find them through the departmental pages

Other major UK Sites

Advanced Knowledge Technologies IRC (lead Southampton, Nigel Shadbolt) www.aktors.org,

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.

Knowledge Managemeent Institute, Open University, Enrico Motta http://kmi.open.ac.uk/index.cfm

Both part of AKT and a major group in their own right.  The Buddy Space Project is particularly well known.

European Projects

KnowledgeWeb http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/index.html

A major project in which this department is partners

OntoGrid http://www.ontogrid.net/

Another major European project in which we are partners.  Includes links back to the predecessor OntoWeb whose portal is at least
temporarily defunct.

On To Knowledge led by Frank van Harmelen - also a link to his text book on the Semantic Web -  http://www.ontoknowledge.org/

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/

Finish Museum Project http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/seco/museums/

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.

Some other centres and projects - very incomplete

Bibster - a nice application demo  http://bibster.semanticweb.org/ on bibliography management

A nice project and good demo of the semantic web, but the site is sometimes down.  Worth trying a second time if it is.

Jim Hendler's site -  http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/

One of the other co-chairs of the WebOnt Committee with a very active group at University of Maryland.

Knowledge Engeering Laboratory, Stanford  http://www.ksl.stanford.edu

Suggested Merged Upper Ontology  http://www.ontologyportal.org

Lots of material, some of it very technical

Ontologies in Biomedicine

OpenGALEN - work done here and withour partners  http://www.opengalen.org

Ontologies - General

See Nicola Guarino's home page:  http://www.loa-cnr.it/Ontologies.html

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.

Also Barry Smith's home page  http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ and European Centre for Ontological Research  http://www.ecor.uni-saarland.de/

They take a very different view of ontologies from that taught in this course, but provide many useful references.

Enrico Franconi's home page  http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/

Lots of material on Description Logics, Semantics and Related especially their links to databases

Recent Conferences

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

EKAW 2004 (European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop) LNCS 3257  http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/splb.pl?105633

Other tools

IBM AlphaWorks Emerging Technologies -> Semantics  http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/topics/semantics

Main tools for this course