HTML5 Microdata – Easily Add Semantic Meaning to Your Site

With just a few simple lines of code, easily memorable HTML5 Microdata allows you to mark up pages with semantic meaning without having to worry about complexities normally associated with RDF implementation. You can easily mark up an article with semantic meaning utilizing HTML5 Microdata to specify if it is an event, organization, product, person and more.

In this video, Michael Latulippe, Director of Business Development for Get Noticed, Inc will explain many facets of HTML5 Microdata including how it arose, why it arose, how to implement it easily in sites, and how to check your work utilizing the Google Rich Snippet Tool.

Semantic Web: The Search for Intelligence on the Internet

Series: Collaboration Technology and Engaging the Campus 2009
Title: Semantic Web, The Search for Intelligence on the Internet
Speakers: Martin Mueller, Northwestern University

Recorded in Meeting Room B in the Thwing Center on the Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio
Date: Thursday May 7, 2009

The Value of Structured Data

The topic of our talk was how structure add value to your data. We start by talking about structured data in a general context. This then leads to the Semantic Web, and finally we talked about structured data in the context of CMS systems.

 

Semantic Web and Architecting the Future of Major Software Systems

Series: Collaboration Technology and Engaging the Campus 2009
Title: Semantic Web and Architecting the Future of Major Software Systems for the University and the Enterprise
Speaker: Dan Sholler – Gartner

Recorded in Meeting Room B Room in the Thwing Center on the Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio
Date: Thursday May 7, 2009

 

Knowledge Representation and the Semantic Web

Google TechTalks
January 25, 2006

Peter Patel-Schneider
http://www-db.research.bell-labs.com/user/pfps/

ABSTRACT
The Semantic Web has been attracting considerable attention the last few years. From the point of view of Knowledge Representation, the Semantic Web affords opportunities for both research and application.

However, several aspects of the Semantic Web, as it has been envisioned, cause problems from the Knowledge Representation viewpoint. Overcoming some of these problems has resulted in a more formal basis for the Semantic Web and an increase in expressive power in Semantic Web languages.

 

Frame Relay

Frame Relay is a virtual circuit technology that provides low-level (physical and data link layers) services in response to following demands:
o Higher data rate at lower cost
o Bursty data—bandwidth on demand—bursty data requires different bandwidth allocation at different times.
o Less overhead due to improved transmission media
• The most technical innovation to come out of the standardization work on narrowband ISDN is the frame relay.
• Frame relay is a streamlined technique for packet switching that operates at the data link layer with much less overhead than packet switching X.25
• Standardization of the frame-mode bearer service, or frame relay, was done by both ITU-T and ANSI.

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Data Link Protocol

Data Link protocols
• Asynchronous Protocols
• Not complex and inexpensive to implement
• Data unit is transmitted with no timing co-ordination between sender and receiver.
• Receiver does not know when data unit is sent- only recognizes the beginning and    ending of frame-accomplished by start and stop bit.
• Used primarily in modem, features start and stop bits and variable length gaps between    characters.
• Synchronous Protocols

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Data Link Layer Functions

Line Discipline: co-ordinates the link system-determines which device can send and when it can send.
• Flow Control: co-ordinates the amount of data that can be sent before receiving ack.
• Error Control: error detection/correction-allows receiver to inform the sender of any frame lost or damaged and co-ordinate the retransmission

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UBICOM: Applications

Ubiquitous computing is changing our daily activities in a variety of ways. When it comes to using today’s digital tools users tend to….

  • communicate in different ways
  • be more active
  • conceive and use geographical and temporal spaces differently
  • have more control

In addition, ubiquitous computing is…

  • global and local
  • social and personal
  • public and private
  • invisible and visible

an aspect of both knowledge creation and information dissemination.

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Digital Communication Systems

Learning material by

Prof.H. S. Jamadagni, CEDT, IISc, Bangalore

Topics in Digital Communications

  1. Digital communication system advantages and disadvantages
  2. Digital communication system classification
  3. Digitization of analog signals
  4. Digital transmission systems
  5. Data communication systems
  6. Integrated Services Digital Network and other advanced digital communication systems

View / download : DCN-LearningMaterial (size 1.44MB)

 

Optimize visual image search for semantic web

Abstract: In today’s web image search engines find more irrelevances in the search result. By adding semantic meaning to the document this irrelevance can be reduced. SIEVE image search algorithm combine the text based and content based method and shows the result. Also “IN-Picture” search algorithm mixing the images higher level and lower level contents. In this paper it shows some image searching framework like “SAFE” describe how image are searched using its attributes. Also describes some semantic web technology, which helps in image search and shows how detailed indexing system can use SPARQL query and ontology of an image to build semantic web based framework.

View Full Paper : ijcsit_survey optimize visual image search for semantic web (size 375 KB)

 

Optimizing Query execution over Linked Data

Abstract Linked open data also known as web of linked data is a globally distributed database. The four fold increase in the use of linked open data shows its need in the future. This linked data can be queried with SPARQL protocol and RDF query language also known as SPARQL. Various optimization techniques have been proposed but just a couple implemented as yet. In this paper two most feasible query optimization methods are proposed. Solution one is applying federation and query rewriting. Solution two is expressing the RDF structure as a context graph and pruning intermediate results based on probability or selectivity of the result. The paper gives a brief understanding for both solutions.

View Full Paper: IJETAE_Optimizing Query execution over Linked Data (size 354 KB)

SEMANTIC WEB and COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS of INFERENCE ENGINES

Abstract Semantic Web is an emerging technology for efficient reasoning support over the knowledge represented on the Web. This paper presents the semantic web standards and survey a number of Inference Engines that supports reasoning with OWL. Also analyzed the reasoner with set of ontologies and based on supported features.

View Full paper: Survey Paper on Semantic Web and Inference Engine  (Size 567KB)

UBICOM: Basics and Vision

Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. In the course of ordinary activities, someone “using” ubiquitous computing engages many computational devices and systems simultaneously, and may not necessarily even be aware that they are doing so.

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Semantic Web Google Tech Talk

The Semantic Web is a field aiming a the creation, deployment, and interoperation of machine readable data on the Internet. In the talk we present some projects in DERI on Semantic Web technologies – notably Semantic Interlinking of Online Community sites, Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering, and ActiveRDF, a library for Browsing, programming and navigating Semantic Web data.

The SIOC (Semantic Interlinking of Online Communities) project [1] is an effort aiming at establishing and deploying a metadata vocabulary for interlinking and connecting distributed conversation on blogs, bulletin boards, and mailing lists. The vocabulary has been implemented…

 

 

Making the Semantic Web Accessible to the Casual User

The Semantic Web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest Boolean
expression. So how can we help users to query a web of logic that they do not seem to understand? One frequently proposed solution to address this problem is the use of natural language (NL) for
knowledge specification and querying. We propose to regard formal query languages and NL as two extremes of a continuum, where semistructured languages lie somewhere in the middle.

To evaluate what degree of structuredness casual users prefer, we introduce four query interfaces, each at a different point in the continuum, and evaluate the users’ preference and their query performance in a study with 48 subjects. The results of the study reveal that while the users dislike the constraints of a fully
structured formal query language they also seem at a loss with the freedom of a full NLP approach. This suggests that restricted query languages will be preferred by casual users because of their
guidance effect, mirroring findings from social science theory on human activity in general.
Speaker: Prof. Bernstein
Abraham Bernstein is a full Professor at the Department of Information Technology (Institut für Informatik) of the University of Zurich. He conducts research on various aspects of supporting dynamic (intra- and inter-) organizational processes. His work draws from both social science (organizational psychology/sociology) and technical (computer science, artificial intelligence) foundations.

Before coming to Zurich he was an Assistant Professor, at the Information Systems Department in New York University’s Stern School of Business, and received a Ph.D. at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he worked with Prof. Thomas W. Malone at the Center for Coordination Science.

Software Engineering

Roger S. Pressman is an internationally recognized authority in software process
improvement and software engineering technologies. For over three decades, he has
worked as a software engineer, a manager, a professor, an author, and a consultant, focusing on software engineering issues.

Software Engineering Practitioner Approach is a book written by Pressman.

Download: Software Engineering Practitioner Approach [size 4.13 MB]

Download: Summary of the book for quick reference.

1_The Product

2_The Process

3_Project Management Concepts

4_Software Process and Project Metrics

5_Software Project Planning

6_Risk Analysis and Management

7_Project Scheduling and Tracking

8_Software Quality Assurance

9_Software Configuration Management

10_System Engineering

11_Analysis Concepts and Principles

13_Design Concepts and Principles

14_Architectural Design

15_User Interface Design

16_Component-Level Design

17_Software Testing Techniques

18_Software Testing Strategies

19_Technical Metrics for Software

21_Object-Oriented Analysis

22_Object-Oriented Design

24_Technical Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems

26_Cleanroom Software Engineering

27_Component-Based Software Engineering

28_Client-Server Software Engineering

29_Web Engineering

30_Re-engineering

31_Computer-Aided Software Engineering

32_The Road Ahead

The Semantic Web – An Overview

Find out what the Semantic Web is all about and how it might be structured. How can we make computers smarter so we can get the information we need in context?
From the online Web Services class offered by Computer Careers at South Central College located in North Mankato, MN 56003 USA.