CSW XML Summer School

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Sun 24th - Fri 29th July 2005
Wadham College, University of Oxford

A Practical Introduction to Ontologies & OWL
Friday 29th July

Speakers: Duncan Hull and Nick Drummond, Dept of Computer Science, Manchester University

Ontologies are a critical piece of the Semantic Web jigsaw puzzle, and are already used in various forms to capture knowledge in a machine understandable language. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a W3C standard that allows the formalisation of knowledge in a semantically rich model with explicit meaning.

This introductory level tutorial is aimed at newcomers to ontologies and those using formalisms other than OWL and will provide attendees with both the theoretical foundations and hands-on experience in the construction of ontologies.

In particular, attendees will:

Be given an overview of ontologies and motivation for their use
Understand OWL language elements, and their explicit semantics
Learn the basic principles of modelling using Description Logic based ontologies
Use informal modelling techniques to uncover issues relating to knowledge capture
Gain hands-on experience with ontology development using the Protege-OWL tools
Learn how to take advantage of inferencing capabilities to build robust, reusable models
Be exposed to the growing community of users/developers of OWL

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