CT211: Semantic Web (Next Generation II)

Lecturer: Sami Bhiri
Hours per week: 1

This course will give motivation and introduction to the Semantic Web and core technologies: RDF, RDF-S, OWL. The course consist of a lecture, tutorials and labaratories.

DM110: Emerging Web Media

Lecturer:Axel Polleres, Giovanni Tummarello

This module will begin with an introduction to previous forms of web media communication, and describe in detail the emergent trends and technologies being employed for media communication through the Web. These include:

• Blogs (online journals or sets of chronological news entries that are maintained by individuals, communities or commercial entities, and can be used to publish personal opinions, diary-like articles or news stories relating to a particular interest or product)
• Wikis (collaboratively edited websites that can be updated or added to by anyone with an interest in the topic covered by the wiki site, and have been used to create online encyclopedias, photo galleries and literature collections)
• Audio podcasts (also known as audio blogs, podcasts are to radio what blogs are to newspapers or magazines, and people can create and distribute audio content using podcasts for public consumption and playback on personal/portable media players, computers or other MP3-enabled devices)
• Video podcasts (also known as "vlogs" from video blogs or "vodcasts" from video podcasts, this is where people can produce and publish video content on the Web for consumption on media playing-devices, and this content can range from individuals publishing home movies or their own news "interviews", to studios releasing TV episodes or movies for a fee)
• Content syndication (a means whereby people can keep up to date with material published via the new media communication methods above, through RSS, Atom and other subscription methods)
• Annotated social bookmarks and photo sharing (sites like Flickr, del.icio.us and Google Maps are allowing people to publicly publish textual or multimedia content along with associated annotations of use to others)
• Semantic Web Technologies: (How) can the Web be used as one huge database? We will discuss this question and underlying technologies and standards towards the realization of this vision. As we will see in practical examples, this vision is closer than one might think.