What’s this class all about?
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 12,800 words
This week’s meeting was cancelled due to a campus tragedy. I’ve left the readings linked below for your reference.
Data comes in different forms, and each form has certain affordances.
To read before this meeting:
Focus on section 2.2 (“Web of Data: Concepts”) on pages 16–40. Feel free to skim or skip the rest. If you’re really pressed for time, just read section 2.2.1 (“Data”) on pages 16–21.
Due to the Labor Day holiday, we will not meet this week.
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 15,000 words
Data modeling is the design of a formal language intended to aid communication and mediate among different purposes and perspectives.
To read before this meeting:
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 15,100 words
The (World Wide) Web is an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system. It exists by means of voluntary compliance with open communication protocols and data format standards.
To read before this meeting:
Focus on section 1.2 (“The Current Web”), pages 6–14.
Due to the well-being day, we will not meet this week.
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 14,000 words
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a conceptual model for structuring information into triples that can be combined into graphs.
To read before this meeting:
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 10,100 words
Because RDF is a purely conceptual model, it does not specify how data should be written down or serialized. There are several alternative standards for serialization.
To read before this meeting:
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 13,500 words
RDF Schema is a data modeling language layered on top of the basic RDF conceptual model. It provides additional tools for describing classifications and collections of resources.
To read before this meeting:
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 11,900 words
Wikidata is a free and openly editable knowledge base that is published as RDF. Wikibase is the software it runs on.
To read before this meeting:
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 21,400 words
The SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) is a query language for RDF.
To read before this meeting:
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 18,900 words
This week we’ll continue exploring what can be done with SPARQL.
To read before this meeting:
This week we will have two guests, who will talk with us about how they do this stuff for real.
Sara Mae O’Brien-Scott is a Senior Semantic Engineering Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, where she specializes in taxonomy, ontology and knowledge graph design and implementation.
Yu Lee An is a historical musicologist and a SILS doctoral student, whose dissertation research involves building a semantic knowledge graph of the British music trade during the Georgian and Victorian eras.
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 19,800 words
Shape constraint languages (SHACL and ShEx) allow us to prescribe a certain “shape” for a graph, by requiring or forbidding certain patterns of triples.
To read before this meeting:
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 25,000 words
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a data modeling language layered on top of RDF Schema (which is why some parts of OWL are referred to as “RDF-Plus.” OWL enables more complex inferences to be drawn from RDF data.
To read before this meeting:
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 10,000 words
This week we will continue exploring what can be done with OWL.
To read before this meeting: