Learning Material 1
Learning Material
As mentioned in the Welcome Video large parts of this course are based on the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, and Sebastian Rudolph (german version: Semantic Web Grundlagen).
P. Hitzler, M. Krötzsch, S. Rudolph: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies . - CRC Press, 2009. Website
Additionally the following videos are helpful to understand the WWW and the vision of the Semantic Web:
Tim Berners-Lee about the invention of the WWW
Computer Networks - The Heralds of Resource Sharing
Further reading material concerning the WWW and the its development:
It all started with a proposal. Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for an information management system at the CERN. Later called the World Wide Web...
The Scientific American published an article by Tim Berners-Lee (and others) about the Semantic Web in 2001.
(alternatively you might access the article here)
In 1945 The Atlantic published an article about the Memex - a predecessor of the WWW - by Vannevar Bush.
Tim O'Reilly answered the question "What is Web 2.0" in this article.
The PDF files of the lecture slides and the audio streams can be downloaded here:
- Lecture 1 - Part 1, Week 1 - lecture slides at Slideshare
- Lecture 1 - Part 2, Week 1 - lecture slides at Slideshare
- Lecture 1 - Part 3, Week 1 - lecture slides at Slideshare
- Lecture 1 - Part 4, Week 1 - lecture slides at Slideshare
- Lecture 1 - Part 5, Week 1 - lecture slides at Slideshare
- Lecture 1 - Part 6, Week 1 - lecture slides at Slideshare
- Lecture 1 - Part 7, Week 1 - lecture slides at Slideshare