Literature

(under construction, may change)

General Semantic Web Literature

Suggested books

J. Davies et al. (eds) (2006) Semantic Web technologies Wiley
C. Walton (2007) Agency and the Semantic Web OUP
G. Antoniou and F. van Harmelen (2004) A semantic Web Primer The MIT Press
T. Passin (2004) Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web Manning Publications.

Literature per topic

1. The semantic web and the role of agents

(all, preparation for class) T. Berners-Lee et al. (2001). The semantic web The Scientific American
(all, preparation for class) Nigel Shadbolt, Tim Berners-Lee and Wendy Hall (2006). The Semantic Web Revisited IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(3) pp. 96-101
(all) Hendler: Agents and the Semantic Web
Possible risks of the Semantic Web: a short clip from "youtube".
Podcast and transcript of an interview with T. Berners Lee on the development of the Web (2006).
Video of T. Berners Lee on the Semantic Web shown during the lecture (2007)
Q&A with T. Berners Lee on the Semantic Web (2007)
SmartWeb demo (2005)
Wooldridge: Intelligent Agents
van Aart et al: Creating and Using Ontologies in Agent Communication
Tenenbaum: AI meets Web2.0
Schiaffino and Amandi: Polite Personal Agents
Burstein et al.: A Semantic Web Services Architecture
Java et al.: Integrating language Understanding Agents into the Semantic Web
Dickinson, Wooldridge: Towards Pratical Reasoning Agents for the Semantic Web
Chen et al.: Intelligent Agents Meet the Semantic Web in Smart Spaces

Applications you can have a look at:

Screeen scrappers:

Piggy_Bank: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Piggy_Bank
Solvent: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Solvent

'smart' extensions for webpages: Book_burro for Amazon
'real smart' search engines (human smart!!): www.chacha.com

2. Ontologies (XML+RDF)

(all)Vickery: Ontologies
(all) Semy et al: Comparison of upper ontologies, read ch.2-4-6
(all) chapter 2 from Agency and Semantic Web (available in google group)
(all with no previous knolwedge of RDF) Introduction to RDF
Decker et al. The Semantic Web - on the respective Roles of XML and RDF
(practical on development of Protege ontologies) Noy, McGuiness: Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology
(classic) Gruber: Toward Principles for the Design of Ontologies Used for Knowledge Sharing
Protege editor to develop ontologies (for free download, tutorials and other information)
(practical material on XML) A Semantic Web Primer (chapers 2): XML
XML tutorial, XML primer (if you are not really familiar with XML, specially for Arts students)
Getting to learn RDF (you are expected to know this after this week)

3. Folksonomies

(all) Tom Gruber: Ontology of Folksonomy: A Mash-up of Apples and Oranges
(all) Clay Shirky: Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links and Tags
(choice) C. Marlow, M. Naaman, D. Boyd, M. Davis. "Position paper, tagging, taxonomy, flickr, article, toread", WWW 2006 Tagging Workshop (also available on google group)
(choice) Scott Golder and Bernardo A. Huberman. (2006). "Usage Patterns of Collaborative Tagging Systems." Journal of Information Science, 32(2). 198-208.
Extra literature:

Jaeschke et all (2007): Tag Recommendations in Folksonomies
Chen, Roberts (WI'07): Semantic Tagging for Large-scale Content Management
Bibisonomy: a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature

4. Social web and semantic web

(all) Mika, P. (2005) Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics. 4th ISWC
(all) Specia and Motta 2007 Integrating Folksonomies with the Semantic Web
(choice) FolksOntology: Céline Van Damme, Martin Hepp, Katharina Siorpaes (2007): An Integrated Approach for Turning Folksonomies into Ontologies
(choice) Anon Plangprasopchok, Kristina Lerman: Constructing Folksonomies from User-specified Relations on Flickr
(choice) Morgan Ames, Mor Naaman: Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media
(choice) Ciro Cattuto, Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme: Semantic Analysis of Tag Similarity Measures in Collaborative Tagging Systems
Extra literature:

Gao, Yong; Kinoshita, June; Wu, Elizabeth; Miller, Eric; Lee, Ryan; Seaborne, Andy; Cayzer, Steve; Clark, Tim: SWAN: A Distributed Knowledge Infrastructure for Alzheimer Disease Research
Mika: Flink: Who is who in the semantic web

5. Ontology (OWL) and Reasoning on the web

(all) Agency and the Semantic Web (chapter 5): reasoning on the web (available in the google group)
(all) Bry, Marchiori: Reasoning on the Semantic Web: Beyond Ontology Lanaguages and Reasoners
(choice): Henze, Dolog, Nejdl: Reasoning and Ontologies for Personalized E-Learning in the Semantic Web
(choice): Korotkiy, Top:
MoRe Semantic Web Applications
(choice): Siberski, Pan, Thaden. Querying the Semantic Web with Preferences
OWL: web ontology language overview
Antoniou, van Harmelen: Web Ontology Language: OWL
Reasoners:

Sesame
Pellet: Evren Sirin, Bijan Parsia, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Aditya Kalyanpur and Yarden Katz. Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner, Journal of Web Semantics, 5(2), 2007.
Sparql:

Tutorial
Jim Melton: SQL, XQuery and Sparql
SPARQL: Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web, Kendall Clark
Evren Sirin and Bijan Parsia: SPARQL-DL: SPARQL Query for OWL-DL

OWL Reasoning Examples
Check the following: Examples of Ontologies

6. Ontology: automatic development

(all) P. Buitelaar et al: Ontology Learning from Text: An Overview
(all) Specia, L., Motta, E. (2006). A hybrid approach for extracting semantic relations from texts
(choice) Basili et al. 2007 Harvesting Ontologies from Open Domain Corpora: a Dynamic Approach
(choice) Ponzetto and Strube (2007) Deriving a large scale taxonomy from wikipedia
Other readings:

Buitelaar et al: A Protégé Plug-In for Ontology Extraction from Text Based on Linguistic Analysis
Navigli, R., Velardi P. (2004) Learning Domain Ontologies from Document Warehouses and Dedicated Websites, Computational Linguistics (30-2).
Pantel, P., Ravichandran, D., and Hovy, E.H. (2004). Towards Terascale Knowledge Acquisition. Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-04). Geneva, Switzerland
Schutz, A. and Buitelaar, P. (2005). RelExt: A Tool for Relation Extraction from Text in Ontology Extension. 4th ISWC, Galway,593-606
Buitelaar, P., Cimiano, P., Magnini B., (2005) Ontology from Text: Methods, Evaluation and Applications Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series, Vol. 123, IOS Press.

Check the following: Automatic Development Tools

GATE
Onto-LT

7. Ontology integration and web services

(all) Michel Klein (2001) Combining and relating ontologies: an analysis of problems and solutions. Proceedings of the IJCAI-01 Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing Seattle, USA, August 4-5, 2001. (108-118) (53-62)
(all) J. Davies et al (2006) Semantic Web Technologies (Chapter 6: ontology mediation, merging and aligning)
(all) Agency and the Semantic Web (chapter 7): seamnt web services (available in the google group)
More on integration

H. Wache et al (2001) Ontology-Based Integration of Information - A Survey of Existing Approaches Proceedings of the IJCAI-01 Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing Seattle, USA, August 4-5, 2001. (108-118)
d'Aquin, M., Baldassarre, C., Gridinoc, L., Angeletou, S., Sabou, M., Motta, E., (2007) Characterizing Knowledge on the Semantic Web with Watson.
d'Aquin, M., cb7224, Gridinoc, L., Sabou, M., Angeletou, S., Motta, E., (2007) Watson: Supporting Next Generation Semantic Web Applications. WWW/Internet conference 2007, Vila real, Spain
Marta Sabou, Mathieu d’Aquin, and Enrico Motta (2006) Using the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Mapping
J. van Diggelen, et al.: ANEMONE: An Effective Minimal Ontology Negotiation Environment
The Prompt Protegee plug-in for ontology mapping
The Watson project

More on Semantic Web services

Daniel Sonntag, Ralf Engel, Gerd Herzog, Alexander Pfalzgraf, Norbert Pfleger, Massimo Romanelli, Norbert Reithinger: SmartWeb Handheld - Multimodal Interaction with Ontological Knowledge Bases and Semantic Web Services

Roman et al: Web Service Modelling Ontology

Gibbins et al.: Agent-based Semantic Web Services

Trastour et al: Semantic Web Support for the Business-to-Business E-Commerce Lifecycle

Examples of applications

Information access: mSpace (with thanks to Lee for the link)

W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences

8. Trust

(all) Jennifer Golbeck. 2006. Combining Provenance with Trust in Social Networks for Semantic Web Content Filtering. Proceedings of the International Provenance and Annotation Workshop. Chicago, Illinois, May, 2006 (paper on google group)
(all) Paolo Massa, Paolo Avesani Trust-aware Recommender Systems. Proceeding of ACM Recommender Systems Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - 2007 (paper on google group)
(choice) D. Recordon, D. Reed, "OpenID 2.0: a platform for user-centric identity management", Conference on Computer and Communications Security archive, Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Digital identity management, Pages: 11 - 16, 2006 (paper on google group)
(choice) O'Hara, K., Alani, H., Kalfoglou, Y. and Shadbolt, N. (2004) Trust Strategies for the Semantic Web. In: Workshop on Trust, Security, and Reputation on the Semantic Web, 3rd International (ISWC'04), 7-11 November, Hiroshima, Japan. (paper on google group)
Other readings:

Golbeck. 2006. Combining Provenance with Trust in Social Networks for Semantic Web Content Filtering (more on this topic in Trust in Web Based Social Network)
Reagle: Finding Bacon's Key: Does Google Show How the Semantic Web Could Replace Public Key Infrastructure?
(worth to read) TriQL.P - A Query Language for Querying Named Graphs Published by Untrustworthy Sources
Ashri et al: Towards a SemanticWeb Security Infrastructure
Broekstra, Kampman: Inferencing and Truth Maintenance in RDF Schema
Carroll: Named Graphs, Provenance and Trust (quite formal, may be difficult to read, but gives a sound formal proposal for the trust layer)
V. Dignum, R. van Eijk: Towards a Model to Understand the Influence of Trust in Knowledge Sharing Decisions.
(just for refence, don't need to read all!) Semantic Web Trust and Security Resource Guide

Literature

(under construction, may change)

General Semantic Web Literature

Suggested books

Links

Literature per topic

1. The semantic web and the role of agents

2. Ontologies (XML+RDF)

3. Folksonomies

4. Social web and semantic web

5. Ontology (OWL) and Reasoning on the web

6. Ontology: automatic development

7. Ontology integration and web services

More on integration

More on Semantic Web services

8. Trust