UNIT – I: Introduction

  • Introduction to Semantic Web
  • The Business Case for the Semantic Web
  • XML and Its Impact on the Enterprise

UNIT – II: Web Services

  • Uses of Web Services
  • Basics of Web Services
  • SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
  • UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration)
  • Orchestrating Web Services
  • Securing Web Services
  • Grid Enabled Web Services
  • Semantic Web of Web Services

UNIT – III: Resource Description Framework & XML Technologies

Resource Description Framework (RDF)

  • Features of RDF
  • Capturing Knowledge with RDF

XML Technologies

  • XPath
  • The Style Sheet Family:
    • XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language)
    • XSLT (XSL Transformations)
    • XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects)
  • XQuery
  • XLink
  • XPointer
  • XInclude
  • XMLBase
  • XHTML
  • XForms
  • SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)

UNIT – IV: Taxonomies and Ontologies

  • Overview of Taxonomies
  • Defining the Ontology Spectrum
  • Topic Maps
  • Overview of Ontologies
  • Syntax, Structure, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Ontologies
  • Expressing Ontologies Logically
  • Knowledge Representation

UNIT – V: Semantic Web Applications & Semantic Search Technology

Semantic Web Applications

  • Semantic Web Services
  • e-Learning Applications
  • Semantic Bioinformatics
  • Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
  • Knowledge Base Systems

Semantic Search Technology

  • Traditional Search Engines
  • Semantic Search
  • Semantic Search Technology
  • Web Search Agents
  • Semantic Methods
  • Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) Search
  • TAP (The Application Protocol / Stanford’s TAP Project)
  • Swoogle (Semantic Web Search Engine)