Introduction to RDF, RDFS, & OWL

Monday, June 4, 2012

08:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Level:	Technical - Introductory
Location:	Plaza B

This introductory course teaches students the basics of RDF, RDFS, and some parts of OWL. No Prior RDF knowledge necessary, but familiarity with XML and some basic Computer Science concepts a plus. We use exercises and examples to reinforce learning, and cover the following:

What is RDF?
• Graph Model, Triples
• URLs and Namespacing
• Serialization Formats (RDF-XML, Turtle, NTriples)
• RDF Querying
• Distributed data merging

What is RDFS?
• What it adds to RDF
• RDFS Constructs & Inference (type, class, property, subClassOf, subpropertyOf, range, domain, label, comment)

Introduction to OWL
• What it adds to RDFS
• Ways it is more restrictive than RDF and RDFS
• OWL Constructs & Inference (Object vs. Data property, sameAs, differentFrom, functional and inverse-functional, properties, transitivity, some restrictions, isjointness, etc.)
• Different Species and Profiles of OWL
• Open World Assumption

Mr. Mark Wallace is the Principal Engineer for Semantic Applications at Modus Operandi, Inc. Mr. Wallace has over 25 years experience in software development, and 15 years experience as lead architect on software projects for the US Air Force, USMC, and private industry. He has worked both in research and in commercial product development. Prior to re-joining Modus Operandi in 2009, Mark served as Chief Architect and Ontologist at 3 Sigma Research. Mr. Wallace served previously at Modus Operandi as Director of Product Development for the Wave(tm) Product, an enterprise data federation and transformation product utilizing XML, XQuery, and semantic technologies, which extended the AquaLogic Data Services Platform developed by BEA Systems, Inc (later acquired by Oracle). Mr. Wallace's recent work has focused on applying and exploiting semantic wikis and RDF/OWL knowledge bases for the Navy and US Marine Corps.