INFS3101/7100 Ontology and the Semantic Web

Exercises from Week 8-9

For discussion in tutorial week 10

Key concepts from lecture: RDF elaboration of hyperlink as triple, resources linking resources in namespaces. Allows literals and blank nodes. RDFS allows class, subclass, subproperty, domain, range. But not structure comparable to UML. Need OWL for that.

1.     Consider the rental accommodation exchange from the week 2 tutorial and the representation in the solution to the week 4 tutorial and following.

a.      Represent a significant portion of the ontology in RDFS along the lines of Appendix B, using all the key concepts from the lecture.

b.     What concepts are you using that might be in more general namespaces? Suggest who might maintain these namespaces, if they do not already exist.

c.      How would you represent the players and speech acts in RDF?