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)