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Semantic Technology leverages artificial intelligence to simulate how people understand language and process information. It uses formal semantics to give meaning to the disparate and raw data that surrounds us. Semantic Technology is designed to standardize and support interoperability and integration of information content and capabilities (services) of Web-based systems and components at local and global scale. As a software technology semantic technology encodes meanings separately from data and from application code to enable machines to understand, share and reason with them at execution time. This course provides practical introduction on storing, querying, merging and reasoning with the metadata and ontologies for the semantic applications; as well as covers aspects of semantic programming and Linked Data. At the same time, the course addresses the challenge related to the Web of Things where all the things are interconnected and interoperate with each other regardless of whether a thing is a real world object, a digital entity or human. Following the vision of Everything-as-a-Service, in addition to a traditional GUI (where a user of applications and services is assumed to be a human), the course concerns interfaces needed if a user of the application happens to be some other application, service, device or any other thing. Such Everything-to-Everything interfaces in addition to the traditional service APIs have to enable understanding among interacting entities, which requires either sharing common ontology or the support for the ontology alignment process followed by semantically enhanced interaction. Thus, course will review available techniques and tools for practical design of Semantic Web Services as well.

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Basic information about the course

Lectures:
- Lecture 1 (07.09.2026, at 12:15-14:00, AgC231.1, Zoom): Web of Things and Semantic Web in a nutshell
- Lecture 2 (14.09.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B121.1 Beeta, Zoom): RDF data Serialization and Storing
- Lecture 3 (17.09.2026, at 14:15-16:00, AgC231.1, Zoom): Querying RDF data
- Lecture 4 (21.09.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B431.1 Lea Pulkkisen sali): Ontologies (coming later)
- Lecture 5 (24.09.2026, at 14:15-16:00, AgC231.1): Reasoning (coming later)
- Lecture 6 (12.10.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B121.1 Beeta): Data Exchange and Semantic Annotation (coming later)
- Lecture 7 (19.10.2026, at 12:15-14:00, AgC231.1): Programming with Semantic Web (APIs) (coming later)
- Lecture 8 (22.10.2026, at 14:15-16:00, AgC231.1): Linked Data (coming later)
- Lecture 9 (26.10.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B221.1 Delta): Semantic Web Services (coming later)
- Lecture 10 (16.11.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B431.1 Lea Pulkkisen sali): Ontology Alignment (coming later)

Tasks:
- Task 1: Task 1-1 (deadline 16.09.2026, at 23:59) and Task 1-2 (deadline 21.09.2026, at 23:59)
  - Lecture 2 Task
  - Instructions for Task 1-1
  - "Toolkit" for RDF graphs [PPT]
  - Instructions for Task 1-2
  - Instructions for Task 1-2 (add-on)
- Task 2: Task 2-1 (deadline 21.09.2026, at 23:59) and Task 2-2 (deadline 04.10.2026, at 23:59)
  - Instructions for Task 2-1
  - Instructions for Task 2-2
- Task 3 (deadline 04.10.2026, at 23:59)
  - Instructions: Coming later
- Task 4 (deadline 11.10.2026, at 23:59)
  - Instructions: Coming later
- Task 5 (deadline 14.10.2026, at 23:59)
  - Instructions: Coming later
- Semi-final Assignment (deadline 18.11.2026, at 23:59)
  - Instructions: Coming later
- Task 6 (deadline 04.11.2026, at 23:59)
  - Instructions: Coming later
- Task 7: Task 7-1 (deadline 08.11.2026, at 23:59) and Task 7-2 (deadline 25.11.2026, at 23:59)
  - Instructions: Coming later
- Task 8 (deadline 02.12.2026, at 23:59)
  - Instructions: Coming later

Demos:

Demo 1 (05.10.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B121.1 Beeta, Zoom): Presentation of the Task-3 results.
Demo 2 (15.10.2026, at 14:15-16:00, AgC231.1, Zoom): Presentation of the Task-4 and Task-5 results.
Demo 3 (05.11.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B431.1 Lea Pulkkisen sali, Zoom): Presentation of the Task-6 results.
Demo 4 (09.11.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag D211.1, Zoom): Presentation of the Task-7-1 results.
Demo 4 (extra) (12.11.2026, at 14:15-16:00, Ag B222.1 Gamma, Zoom): Presentation of the Task-7-1 results.
Demo 5 (19.11.2026, at 14:15-16:00, AgC231.1, Zoom): Presentation of the Semi-final Assignment.
Demo 5 (extra) (23.11.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B121.1 Beeta, Zoom): Presentation of the Semi-final Assignment.
Demo 6 (26.11.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag D211.1, Zoom): Presentation of the Task-7-2 results.
Demo 6 (extra) (30.11.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B121.1 Beeta, Zoom): Presentation of the Task-7-2 results.
Demo 7 (03.12.2026, at 14:15-16:00, AgC231.1, Zoom): Presentation of the Task-8 results.
Demo 7 (extra) (07.12.2026, at 12:15-14:00, Ag B121.1 Beeta, Zoom): Presentation of the Task-8 results.
Demo Extra (10.12.2026, at 14:15-16:00, AgC231.1, Zoom): Presentation of any tasks that are left.

Last update: 17.09.2026

TIES4520 Semantic Technologies for Developers

7 ECTS, Dr. Oleksiy Khriyenko

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