Authors:
Daniela Giordano
and
Francesco Maiorana
Affiliation:
University of Catania, Italy
Keyword(s):
Information Systems Applications, Mash-ups, RDF, RDS, OWL, Linked Open Data, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Ontology Engineering, Triplify, SPARQL, Gruff, Jena.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Pedagogy Enhancement with e-Learning
;
Project Based Learning and Engineering Education
Abstract:
The fast growing importance of the semantic web and semantic web applications is demonstrated by the exponentially growing amount of semantic data produced on the web and by the rise of the linked open data movement. Besides this strong interest there is a request both from academia and industry for well-prepared students in order to minimize the training effort needed to prepare them for productive work. This paper describes the teaching experience of a Master's course entitled “Laboratory in software design and development – semantic technologies”. A detailed description of the curriculum, the rationale underlying the choice of content and the software tools used, as well as the main lessons learnt from the experience, are presented.