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A Hands On Overview Of The Semantic Web

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Shamod Lacoul

The document provides an overview of the Semantic Web and introduces key concepts such as RDF, RDFS, SPARQL, OWL, and Linked Open Data. It begins with defining what the Semantic Web is, why it is useful, and how it differs from the traditional web by linking data rather than documents. It then covers RDF for representing data, RDFS for defining schemas, and SPARQL for querying RDF data. The document also discusses OWL for building ontologies and Linked Open Data initiatives that have published billions of RDF triples on the web.

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A Hands-On Overview of the Semantic Web Shamod Lacoul Mike Hewett League of Extraordinary Modelers Image Source: http://www.e-clipsblog.co.uk/wp-content/semantic-web.jpg
Outline What is the Semantic Web? Why use the Semantic Web? RDF for data representation RDFS - data schemas (models) SPARQL - RDF query language RDFa Linked Open Data OWL - Web Ontology Language SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language Useful links ... interspersed with demos See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials.
Who is this person?
Who has seen this diagram before? http://mmt.me.uk/slides/barcamp09/images/semantic-web-layer-cake.png
Web vs. Semantic Web Web --> links documents to documents Semantic Web --> links data to data. aka. Data Web (Web of Data), Structured Web or LINKED DATA.
Semantic Web Advantages Universal data representation (using RDF) Reusable data models (using RDF, RDFS, and OWL) W3C Standard query language (SPARQL) Information validation and classification (reasoners) Rule-based inferencing (SWRL)
Use Cases for Semantic Data Common Data Model RDF is a universal data format RDF data can be mapped to and from relational, XML and object models Even better, execute SPARQL queries remotely to retrieve just the subset of data you need
Use Cases for Semantic Data Biomedical modeling and processing Hundreds of OWL biomedical knowledge bases available Reuse knowledge in different applications Other domains: Business Engineering Scientific E-Commerce ...
Uses of XML in RDF RDF/XML is one type of RDF serialization XSD datatypes Namespaces Image Source: http://www.spycomponents.com/images/xml_at_work.gif
Vocabulary: Namespace Namespace - a concept borrowed from XML PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> prefix -> rdf: namespace URI -> http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> is the same as rdf:type
Vocabulary: URI Universal Resource Identifier - a unique ID http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions#SemWeb Namespace - http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions# Fragment Identifier - SemWeb
Any questions so far? See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: RDF - data model and examples RDFS - data schemas (models) SPARQL - RDF query language SPARQL demos OWL - Web Ontology Language SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language
What is RDF? A Universal Data Model consisting of statements: subject - predicate - object the set of RDF statements form a graph Informal example: ns1:myHouse ns2:hasColor pantone:chartreuse pantone:chartreuse pantone:redComponent "13"^^xsd:int pantone:chartreuse pantone:greenComponent "214"^^xsd:int
An RDF Example This particular SVCC session (let's call it "SemWeb") has the title "A Hands-On Introduction to the Semantic Web" a the description "The Semantic Web is in its infancy ..." <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/sessions#SemWeb> <http://www. w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#Sessions> has the <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title> of "A Hands-On Introduction to the Semantic Web"^^xsd:string and the <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description> of "The Semantic Web is in its infancy ..."^^xsd:string
RDF Graph
RDF/XML <?xml version="1.0"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:svcc="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#" xml:base="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/sesssions"> <rdf:Description rdf:ID="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/sesssions#SemWeb"> <rdf:type rdf:resource="svcc:Session" /> <dc:title>A Hands-On Introduction to the Semantic Web</dc:title> <dc:description>The Semantic Web is in its infancy ...</dc:description> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF>
Other forms of RDF Serialization N3, TURTLE, N-Triple, etc. @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> . @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix svcc: <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> . <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/sesssions#SemWeb> a svcc:Session ; dc:description "The Semantic Web is in its infancy ..." ; dc:title "A Hands-On Introduction to the Semantic Web" ;
RDF vs. XML RDF (Graph-based) != XML (Tree-based). RDF graphs represent information XML trees represent data RDF/XML serializes RDF
RDF storage RDF statements are stored in RDF Repositories Also called triple stores Data can be accessed via: SPARQL queries API calls Text searches
What is RDFS? a representation for defining schemas for RDF
RDF Schema <?xml version="1.0"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xml:base="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs"> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Session" /> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Speaker"> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person" /> </rdfs:Class> <rdf:Property rdf:ID="presenter"> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Session" /> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="#Speaker" /> <rdfs:label>Presenter</rdfs:label> </rdf:Property> </rdf:RDF>
RDFS: Classes Class Name Property Name and Properties rdf:List rdf:type rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:Container rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:Alt rdfs:domain rdf:Seq rdfs:range rdf:Bag rdfs:label rdf:Statement rdfs:comment rdfs:Datatype rdfs:member rdf:Property rdf:first rdfs:Class rdf:rest rdf:XMLLiteral rdfs:seeAlso rdfs:Resource rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:value rdf:subject rdf:object Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/ rdf:predicate
RDF or RDFS questions? Any questions on RDFS? See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: SPARQL - Semantic Web Query Language RDFa Linked Open Data OWL - Web Ontology Language SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language
SPARQL a W3C standard query language to fetch data from distributed Semantic Web data models (mainly, RDF and OWL) a concept similar to SQL for Database can query a triple-store (local RDF repository) or data on the Web (at a URL)
SPARQL - a query language for RDF PREFIX svcc:<http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> PREFIX dc:<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> PREFIX rdfs:<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX rdf:<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> SELECT DISTINCT ?title ?presenter ?description WHERE { ?session rdf:type svcc:Session . ?session dc:title ?title . ?session svcc:presenter ?presenter . ?session dc:description ?description . }
SPARQL - a query language for RDF PREFIX svcc:<http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> PREFIX dc:<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> PREFIX rdfs:<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX rdf:<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> PREFIX fn: <http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions#> SELECT ?title ?presenter ?description WHERE { ?session dc:title ?title . ?session svcc:presenter ?presenter . ?session dc:description ?description . FILTER (fn:string-length(?description) < 100) }
SPARQL - a query language for RDF PREFIX svcc:<http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> CONSTRUCT { ?session svcc:abstract ?description } WHERE { ?session dc:description ?description . } LIMIT 2
SPARQL - a query language for RDF PREFIX svcc: <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> PREFIX speaker: <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp. com/speakers#> ASK { ?x svcc:presenter speaker:Shamod_Lacoul }
Other SPARQL operations Operation WHERE operations Reference Clause DESCRIBE OPTIONAL FROM UNION FROM NAMED ORDER BY DISTINCT REDUCED OFFSET LIMIT SPARQL/UPDATE - a query language to fulfill CRUD operations INSERT & DELETE
SPARQL results Many different formats: SPARQL/XML JSON CSV RDF/XML You will need to parse the results for your needs Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
SPARQL endpoints A SPARQL endpoint is a web service that accepts SPARQL queries and returns results Example: http://www.govtrack.us/developers/rdf.xpd PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> SELECT * WHERE { <http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/109/bills/h867> ?p ?o } Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
Setting up a SPARQL endpoint Use Sesame - http://www.openrdf.org/ Includes a web service that runs under Tomcat Configure it to use your favorite backend RDF store or use the built-in RDF store Some good, scalable RDF stores that support Sesame: SwiftOWLIM - http://ontotext.com/owlim/ AllegroGraph - http://www.franz. com/agraph/allegrograph/ Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
SPARQL demo See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials.
RDFa RDF + attributes = RDFa -> a way to embed RDF concepts within XHTML index anything that has RDFa/Microformat tags embedded in the web page.
RDFa example <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="XHTML+RDFa 1.0" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>Silicon Valley Code Camp Session</title></head> <body> <h3>Silicon Valley Code Camp Session Registration</h3> <div about="http://www.silicon-valley.com/sessions#SemWeb"> <div> <b>Title: </b> <span id="title" property="dc:title">A Hands-On Intro To the Semantic Web</span> </div><br /><br /> <div> <b>Description: </b> <span id="desc" property="dc:description">The Semantic Web is in its infancy ... </span> </div><br /><br /> </div> </body> </html>
Linking Open Data (RDF) 4.7 billion RDF triples 142 million RDF links (as of May 2009) LOD examples DBPedia, Freebase BBC, MusicBrainz, Flickr SIOC, FOAF Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
How to access SW information? Semantic Web Search Engines Indexing RDF information by keywords Zemanta, Sindice, SWSE, Swoogle Query SPARQL endpoints Apply SPARQL queries directly to the RDF data Query SWRL endpoints (when they exist) Run rules on OWL ontologies Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
Questions about SPARQL or RDFa? See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: OWL - Web Ontology Language SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language
Web Ontology Language (OWL) An extension to RDF/RDFS to enable complex knowledge representations a language for defining and instantiating ontologies An OWL ontology may include descriptions of classes, properties and their instances. Based on Open-World Assumption - what is not known is not "untrue", just "unknown".
Flavors of OWL ontologies OWL Lite - supports classification in hierarchies and simple constraints OWL DL - correspondence with Description Logics OWL Full - maximum expressiveness OWL 2 - (W3C Candidate Recommendation, June 2009) OWL 2 EL - has computational guarantees OWL 2 QL - maps to database technologies OWL 2 RL - computationally efficient
OWL <?xml version="1.0" ?> <rdf:RDF xml:base = "http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/tags#" xmlns:dc = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:owl = "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#" xmlns:rdf = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs= "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:tags = "http://www.holygoat.co.uk/owl/redwood/0.1/tags/"> <owl:Ontology rdf:about=""> <rdfs:comment>An ontology to define tags of Silicon Valley Code Camp</rdfs: comment> <rdfs:label>A tag ontology</rdfs:label> <owl:imports rdf:resource="http://www.holygoat.co.uk/owl/redwood/0.1/tags/" /> <dc:creator>Shamod Lacoul</dc:creator> </owl:Ontology> <tags:Tag rdf:ID="OWL"> <tags:name>Web Ontology Language</tags:name> <tags:isTagOf rdf:resource="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp. com/sesssions#SemWeb" /> <tags:relatedTag rdf:resource="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/tags#RDF" /> </tags:Tag> </rdf:RDF>
OWL: Classes Properties Property Charactersitic and Properties owl:ObjectProperty owl:TransitiveProperty Classes owl:DatatypeProperty owl:Class owl:FunctionalProperty rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subClassOf owl:inverseOf rdfs:domain Property Restrictions rdfs:range owl:InverseFunctionalProperty owl:allValuesFrom Equivalence Complex Classes owl:someValuesFrom owl:equivalentClass owl:intersectionOf owl:cardinality owl:equivalentProperty owl:unionOf owl:hasValue owl:sameAs owl:complementOf NOTE: A subset of OWL Classes and Properties Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/
Compare other models to SemWeb Models Database XML RDF OWL Expressiveness medium low medium high Accessibility low medium high high Inferencing low low medium high Flexibility low medium medium medium
Advantages of RDF and OWL Expressiveness (explicit metadata) Inherently Distributed Easier data interchange Reasoning and Inferencing capabilities.
Reasoning / Inferencing Both refer to ways of inferring more information than is in the asserted data model Reasoning does two things: Validates information: domain & range of properties valid subclasses & instances Classifies instances based on their properties Uses logic - usually first-order predicate logic Inferencing uses explicit rules typically domain-specific rules SWRL and RIF are the W3C standard rule languages
OWL example / demo See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language Useful tools, companies and links
SWRL The proposed W3C standard rule language Part of the RuleML family of languages Use it to reason with data in OWL knowledge bases Support for OWL is still fairly primitive Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
SWRL example hasParent(Adam, ?parent) ^ hasParent(?parent, ?g-parent) ^ hasGender(?g-parent, Male) hasParent(Adam, ?parent) ; Clause 1 hasParent(?parent, ?g-parent) ; Clause 2 hasGender(?g-parent, Male) ; Clause 3 Each clause may have multiple bindings for its variable(s) Bindings carry forward to the next clause At the end, all binding sets are returned Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
Results hasParent(Adam, ?parent) ^ hasParent(?parent, ?g-parent) ^ hasGender(?g-parent, Male) Result 1: ?parent = Bob ?g-parent = Cassius Result 2: ?parent = Betty ?g-parent = Charles Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
SWRL Summary More complex queries and actions than SPARQL Support is weak at this point JESS – now supports SWRL Pellet – free reasoner that partially supports SWRL Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
SWRL questions? See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: Useful tools, companies and links
Semantic Web Tools Java libraries for RDF/OWL Jena (O) RDF Repositories (Triplestores) AllegroGraph (OC) Sesame (O) Virtuoso (C) Semantic Web Editor OWLIM (OC) Protege (O) TopQuadrant (OC) O - Open Source C - Closed Source OC - Open & Closed
Popular Public Ontologies FOAF NCBO Dublin Core GoodRelations MusicBrainz
NCBO BioPortal OWL Ontologies http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ 161 ontologies 723,806 concepts From ATMO (African Traditional Medicine) to ZFA (Zebrafish Anatomy and Development) Government funded, freely available Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
Prominent SemWeb Companies
Helpful References and Books http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/Tutorials http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/ http://jena.sourceforge.net/documentation.html http://protege.stanford. edu/publications/ontology_development/ontology101-noy- mcguinness.html http://www.devx.com/semantic/Door/34578 http://semanticweb.com http://semanticuniverse.com/ http://www.mkbergman.com/
Final Remarks Semantic Web is not that hard. It comes with a learning curve, but so does everything else in life. "If Yan can cook, so can you!"
The END
See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. shamod@gmail.com mike@hewettresearch.com

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A Hands On Overview Of The Semantic Web

  • 1. A Hands-On Overview of the Semantic Web Shamod Lacoul Mike Hewett League of Extraordinary Modelers Image Source: http://www.e-clipsblog.co.uk/wp-content/semantic-web.jpg
  • 2. Outline What is the Semantic Web? Why use the Semantic Web? RDF for data representation RDFS - data schemas (models) SPARQL - RDF query language RDFa Linked Open Data OWL - Web Ontology Language SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language Useful links ... interspersed with demos See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials.
  • 3. Who is this person?
  • 4. Who has seen this diagram before? http://mmt.me.uk/slides/barcamp09/images/semantic-web-layer-cake.png
  • 5. Web vs. Semantic Web Web --> links documents to documents Semantic Web --> links data to data. aka. Data Web (Web of Data), Structured Web or LINKED DATA.
  • 6. Semantic Web Advantages Universal data representation (using RDF) Reusable data models (using RDF, RDFS, and OWL) W3C Standard query language (SPARQL) Information validation and classification (reasoners) Rule-based inferencing (SWRL)
  • 7. Use Cases for Semantic Data Common Data Model RDF is a universal data format RDF data can be mapped to and from relational, XML and object models Even better, execute SPARQL queries remotely to retrieve just the subset of data you need
  • 8. Use Cases for Semantic Data Biomedical modeling and processing Hundreds of OWL biomedical knowledge bases available Reuse knowledge in different applications Other domains: Business Engineering Scientific E-Commerce ...
  • 9. Uses of XML in RDF RDF/XML is one type of RDF serialization XSD datatypes Namespaces Image Source: http://www.spycomponents.com/images/xml_at_work.gif
  • 10. Vocabulary: Namespace Namespace - a concept borrowed from XML PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> prefix -> rdf: namespace URI -> http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> is the same as rdf:type
  • 11. Vocabulary: URI Universal Resource Identifier - a unique ID http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions#SemWeb Namespace - http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions# Fragment Identifier - SemWeb
  • 12. Any questions so far? See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: RDF - data model and examples RDFS - data schemas (models) SPARQL - RDF query language SPARQL demos OWL - Web Ontology Language SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language
  • 13. What is RDF? A Universal Data Model consisting of statements: subject - predicate - object the set of RDF statements form a graph Informal example: ns1:myHouse ns2:hasColor pantone:chartreuse pantone:chartreuse pantone:redComponent "13"^^xsd:int pantone:chartreuse pantone:greenComponent "214"^^xsd:int
  • 14. An RDF Example This particular SVCC session (let's call it "SemWeb") has the title "A Hands-On Introduction to the Semantic Web" a the description "The Semantic Web is in its infancy ..." <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/sessions#SemWeb> <http://www. w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#Sessions> has the <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title> of "A Hands-On Introduction to the Semantic Web"^^xsd:string and the <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description> of "The Semantic Web is in its infancy ..."^^xsd:string
  • 16. RDF/XML <?xml version="1.0"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:svcc="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#" xml:base="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/sesssions"> <rdf:Description rdf:ID="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/sesssions#SemWeb"> <rdf:type rdf:resource="svcc:Session" /> <dc:title>A Hands-On Introduction to the Semantic Web</dc:title> <dc:description>The Semantic Web is in its infancy ...</dc:description> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF>
  • 17. Other forms of RDF Serialization N3, TURTLE, N-Triple, etc. @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> . @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix svcc: <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> . <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/sesssions#SemWeb> a svcc:Session ; dc:description "The Semantic Web is in its infancy ..." ; dc:title "A Hands-On Introduction to the Semantic Web" ;
  • 18. RDF vs. XML RDF (Graph-based) != XML (Tree-based). RDF graphs represent information XML trees represent data RDF/XML serializes RDF
  • 19. RDF storage RDF statements are stored in RDF Repositories Also called triple stores Data can be accessed via: SPARQL queries API calls Text searches
  • 20. What is RDFS? a representation for defining schemas for RDF
  • 21. RDF Schema <?xml version="1.0"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xml:base="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs"> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Session" /> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Speaker"> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person" /> </rdfs:Class> <rdf:Property rdf:ID="presenter"> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Session" /> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="#Speaker" /> <rdfs:label>Presenter</rdfs:label> </rdf:Property> </rdf:RDF>
  • 22. RDFS: Classes Class Name Property Name and Properties rdf:List rdf:type rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:Container rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:Alt rdfs:domain rdf:Seq rdfs:range rdf:Bag rdfs:label rdf:Statement rdfs:comment rdfs:Datatype rdfs:member rdf:Property rdf:first rdfs:Class rdf:rest rdf:XMLLiteral rdfs:seeAlso rdfs:Resource rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:value rdf:subject rdf:object Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/ rdf:predicate
  • 23. RDF or RDFS questions? Any questions on RDFS? See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: SPARQL - Semantic Web Query Language RDFa Linked Open Data OWL - Web Ontology Language SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language
  • 24. SPARQL a W3C standard query language to fetch data from distributed Semantic Web data models (mainly, RDF and OWL) a concept similar to SQL for Database can query a triple-store (local RDF repository) or data on the Web (at a URL)
  • 25. SPARQL - a query language for RDF PREFIX svcc:<http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> PREFIX dc:<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> PREFIX rdfs:<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX rdf:<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> SELECT DISTINCT ?title ?presenter ?description WHERE { ?session rdf:type svcc:Session . ?session dc:title ?title . ?session svcc:presenter ?presenter . ?session dc:description ?description . }
  • 26. SPARQL - a query language for RDF PREFIX svcc:<http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> PREFIX dc:<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> PREFIX rdfs:<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX rdf:<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> PREFIX fn: <http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions#> SELECT ?title ?presenter ?description WHERE { ?session dc:title ?title . ?session svcc:presenter ?presenter . ?session dc:description ?description . FILTER (fn:string-length(?description) < 100) }
  • 27. SPARQL - a query language for RDF PREFIX svcc:<http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> CONSTRUCT { ?session svcc:abstract ?description } WHERE { ?session dc:description ?description . } LIMIT 2
  • 28. SPARQL - a query language for RDF PREFIX svcc: <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/rdfs#> PREFIX speaker: <http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp. com/speakers#> ASK { ?x svcc:presenter speaker:Shamod_Lacoul }
  • 29. Other SPARQL operations Operation WHERE operations Reference Clause DESCRIBE OPTIONAL FROM UNION FROM NAMED ORDER BY DISTINCT REDUCED OFFSET LIMIT SPARQL/UPDATE - a query language to fulfill CRUD operations INSERT & DELETE
  • 30. SPARQL results Many different formats: SPARQL/XML JSON CSV RDF/XML You will need to parse the results for your needs Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 31. SPARQL endpoints A SPARQL endpoint is a web service that accepts SPARQL queries and returns results Example: http://www.govtrack.us/developers/rdf.xpd PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> SELECT * WHERE { <http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/109/bills/h867> ?p ?o } Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 32. Setting up a SPARQL endpoint Use Sesame - http://www.openrdf.org/ Includes a web service that runs under Tomcat Configure it to use your favorite backend RDF store or use the built-in RDF store Some good, scalable RDF stores that support Sesame: SwiftOWLIM - http://ontotext.com/owlim/ AllegroGraph - http://www.franz. com/agraph/allegrograph/ Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 34. RDFa RDF + attributes = RDFa -> a way to embed RDF concepts within XHTML index anything that has RDFa/Microformat tags embedded in the web page.
  • 35. RDFa example <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="XHTML+RDFa 1.0" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>Silicon Valley Code Camp Session</title></head> <body> <h3>Silicon Valley Code Camp Session Registration</h3> <div about="http://www.silicon-valley.com/sessions#SemWeb"> <div> <b>Title: </b> <span id="title" property="dc:title">A Hands-On Intro To the Semantic Web</span> </div><br /><br /> <div> <b>Description: </b> <span id="desc" property="dc:description">The Semantic Web is in its infancy ... </span> </div><br /><br /> </div> </body> </html>
  • 36. Linking Open Data (RDF) 4.7 billion RDF triples 142 million RDF links (as of May 2009) LOD examples DBPedia, Freebase BBC, MusicBrainz, Flickr SIOC, FOAF Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 37. Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 38. How to access SW information? Semantic Web Search Engines Indexing RDF information by keywords Zemanta, Sindice, SWSE, Swoogle Query SPARQL endpoints Apply SPARQL queries directly to the RDF data Query SWRL endpoints (when they exist) Run rules on OWL ontologies Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 39. Questions about SPARQL or RDFa? See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: OWL - Web Ontology Language SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language
  • 40. Web Ontology Language (OWL) An extension to RDF/RDFS to enable complex knowledge representations a language for defining and instantiating ontologies An OWL ontology may include descriptions of classes, properties and their instances. Based on Open-World Assumption - what is not known is not "untrue", just "unknown".
  • 41. Flavors of OWL ontologies OWL Lite - supports classification in hierarchies and simple constraints OWL DL - correspondence with Description Logics OWL Full - maximum expressiveness OWL 2 - (W3C Candidate Recommendation, June 2009) OWL 2 EL - has computational guarantees OWL 2 QL - maps to database technologies OWL 2 RL - computationally efficient
  • 42. OWL <?xml version="1.0" ?> <rdf:RDF xml:base = "http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/tags#" xmlns:dc = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:owl = "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#" xmlns:rdf = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs= "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:tags = "http://www.holygoat.co.uk/owl/redwood/0.1/tags/"> <owl:Ontology rdf:about=""> <rdfs:comment>An ontology to define tags of Silicon Valley Code Camp</rdfs: comment> <rdfs:label>A tag ontology</rdfs:label> <owl:imports rdf:resource="http://www.holygoat.co.uk/owl/redwood/0.1/tags/" /> <dc:creator>Shamod Lacoul</dc:creator> </owl:Ontology> <tags:Tag rdf:ID="OWL"> <tags:name>Web Ontology Language</tags:name> <tags:isTagOf rdf:resource="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp. com/sesssions#SemWeb" /> <tags:relatedTag rdf:resource="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/tags#RDF" /> </tags:Tag> </rdf:RDF>
  • 43. OWL: Classes Properties Property Charactersitic and Properties owl:ObjectProperty owl:TransitiveProperty Classes owl:DatatypeProperty owl:Class owl:FunctionalProperty rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subClassOf owl:inverseOf rdfs:domain Property Restrictions rdfs:range owl:InverseFunctionalProperty owl:allValuesFrom Equivalence Complex Classes owl:someValuesFrom owl:equivalentClass owl:intersectionOf owl:cardinality owl:equivalentProperty owl:unionOf owl:hasValue owl:sameAs owl:complementOf NOTE: A subset of OWL Classes and Properties Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/
  • 44. Compare other models to SemWeb Models Database XML RDF OWL Expressiveness medium low medium high Accessibility low medium high high Inferencing low low medium high Flexibility low medium medium medium
  • 45. Advantages of RDF and OWL Expressiveness (explicit metadata) Inherently Distributed Easier data interchange Reasoning and Inferencing capabilities.
  • 46. Reasoning / Inferencing Both refer to ways of inferring more information than is in the asserted data model Reasoning does two things: Validates information: domain & range of properties valid subclasses & instances Classifies instances based on their properties Uses logic - usually first-order predicate logic Inferencing uses explicit rules typically domain-specific rules SWRL and RIF are the W3C standard rule languages
  • 47. OWL example / demo See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: SWRL - Semantic Web Rule Language Useful tools, companies and links
  • 48. SWRL The proposed W3C standard rule language Part of the RuleML family of languages Use it to reason with data in OWL knowledge bases Support for OWL is still fairly primitive Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 49. SWRL example hasParent(Adam, ?parent) ^ hasParent(?parent, ?g-parent) ^ hasGender(?g-parent, Male) hasParent(Adam, ?parent) ; Clause 1 hasParent(?parent, ?g-parent) ; Clause 2 hasGender(?g-parent, Male) ; Clause 3 Each clause may have multiple bindings for its variable(s) Bindings carry forward to the next clause At the end, all binding sets are returned Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 50. Results hasParent(Adam, ?parent) ^ hasParent(?parent, ?g-parent) ^ hasGender(?g-parent, Male) Result 1: ?parent = Bob ?g-parent = Cassius Result 2: ?parent = Betty ?g-parent = Charles Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 51. SWRL Summary More complex queries and actions than SPARQL Support is weak at this point JESS – now supports SWRL Pellet – free reasoner that partially supports SWRL Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 52. SWRL questions? See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. Coming next: Useful tools, companies and links
  • 53. Semantic Web Tools Java libraries for RDF/OWL Jena (O) RDF Repositories (Triplestores) AllegroGraph (OC) Sesame (O) Virtuoso (C) Semantic Web Editor OWLIM (OC) Protege (O) TopQuadrant (OC) O - Open Source C - Closed Source OC - Open & Closed
  • 54. Popular Public Ontologies FOAF NCBO Dublin Core GoodRelations MusicBrainz
  • 55. NCBO BioPortal OWL Ontologies http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ 161 ontologies 723,806 concepts From ATMO (African Traditional Medicine) to ZFA (Zebrafish Anatomy and Development) Government funded, freely available Copyright © 2009 Hewett Research, LLC
  • 57. Helpful References and Books http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/Tutorials http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/ http://jena.sourceforge.net/documentation.html http://protege.stanford. edu/publications/ontology_development/ontology101-noy- mcguinness.html http://www.devx.com/semantic/Door/34578 http://semanticweb.com http://semanticuniverse.com/ http://www.mkbergman.com/
  • 58. Final Remarks Semantic Web is not that hard. It comes with a learning curve, but so does everything else in life. "If Yan can cook, so can you!"
  • 60. See http://www.hewettresearch.com/svcc2009/ for related materials. shamod@gmail.com mike@hewettresearch.com