Dormitory Information Search Based on Semantic Web
TERM PROJECT REPORT
Submitted to
Professor Atila. Elçi
Eastern Mediterranean University
By
Omid Sharifi
065284
Omid.sharifi@cc.emu.edu.tr
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the course
CMPE 588 ENGINEERING SEMANTIC WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS
in
Department of Computer Engineering
Gazi Magusa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
June 11, 2008
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my teacher Professor Atila. Elçi for his helpful comments and trainers and
criticisms as the research presented here evolved to its current state. Finally, I would like to
thank my family, for creating within me a desire to study.
ABSTRACT
This report presents an overview in the field of a semantic web dormitories information
application.
Dormitory information designed for searching through the available rooms in the cties; it is
assumed that the system is the central information system of all the dormitories in the every city.
The user is asked to distinct his/her sex, the number of the beds available in the room
(double/single), the room condition (air-conditioner, kitchen), market and the preferred distance
between the dorm and university. The aim of this system is to solve the selection problem
through many available options in the campus. The users of this system are students. The system
applies Protégé to design OWL concepts and relations, PHP for Graphical User Interface and
Apache as Web Server.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES ..........................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................6
SEMANTIC WEB AND DORMITORY INFORMATION SEARCH ........................7
ONTOLOGY WEB LANGUAGE(OWL) ......................................................................7
EXPLANTION OF DORMITORY ONTOLOGY ........................................................7
GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) ...................................................................10
RDQL ............................................................................................................................... 11
RDQL SYNTAX..............................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................14
REFERENCES ................................................................................................................15
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. The OWLClasses Tab. ....................................................................................................8
Figure 2. The OWL Properties . .....................................................................................................9
Figure 3. Individuals ......................................................................................................................9
Figure 4. Screen Shot of GUI ......................................................................................................10
Figure 5. Screen Shot of a Sample Query and Its Result ........................................................... 13
INTRODUCTION
Dormitory information system is a web based system that hepls students to find and schuchule
best options on the World Wide Web. Using of the latest information and technologies, such as
semantic web, ontologies , web services, and web processes, have impact role in schuchleing.
Using standard ontologies cause harmonies among data, information on internet, these supply
cooperation internet resources in web technology.
Dormitory Information Search suggests a new way of achieving information in finding
dormitories. I show how this system can use the ontology from the semantic web to help
students for better planning. I further illustrate how this can be successfully implemented with
web service technologies to integrate disparate resources.
The ontology description will be studied in the Protégé which is an open source ontology
editor from Stanford University. The ontology language to be used is the OWL. Also PHP will
be used for the graphical viewing and editing of ontology. The completion of the project is at the
point where the dormitories components are defined in ontology, and the defined ontology gives
the desired results to the queries, which are the query results of semantic mappings of data
structures.
In addition, my approach connains three levels .Firstly I develop my ontology and convert it to
rdfs, creation of GUI is next step of my work. My case become practical with use of RDQL as a
query language which gets some parameters from GUI, entered by users and sends them to a
prewritten query in a php file and runs it over a RDf file then results are returned to screen for
user consuming.