Flawless Semantic Modeling in OWL and SKOS - The Practice

About this talk

Hands-on experience of developing a semantic model in OWL and SKOS, with progressive exercises designed to illustrate pitfalls we need to avoid and dilemmas we need to break during the modeling process.

Based on the O'Reilly book "Semantic Modeling for Data"

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Key Topics

• When to use SKOS versus when to use OWL
• When to model an entity as a class versus when to model it as an individual
• How to properly model subclasses, parts and other semantic relations
• How to choose meaningful names for the model’s elements
• How to document assumptions and design decisions
• How to deal with vagueness

Target Audience

• Knowledge engineers
• Ontologists
• Taxonomists
• Data practitioners who develop semantic data models
• Technical leaders who want hands-on semantic modeling experience

Goals

Get hands-on experience using schemas, knowledge graphs and NLP to develop a long-tail SEO strategy

Session outline

Hands-on experience with OWL, SKOS, and Protege

Format

This class will be highly collaborative and interactive.

For the modeling exercises we will work on ​Protege (standalone and/or web version)

All the exercises and solutions will be made available to the attendees after the conclusion of the masterclass.

Level

Beginner - Intermediate

Prerequisite Knowledge

• Basic knowledge of OWL and SKOS
• Attendance of Flawless Semantic Modeling in OWL and SKOS - The Theory is recommended but not obligatory