Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE ARI5124

 
TITLE Enterprise Knowledge Management

 
UM LEVEL 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course

 
MQF LEVEL 7

 
ECTS CREDITS 5

 
DEPARTMENT Artificial Intelligence

 
DESCRIPTION This unit presents students with an in-depth study of scalable solutions to manage, process and analyse enterprise-level Knowledge Graphs. In particular students will be exposed to the foundations, techniques, and algorithms for building and querying knowledge graphs. Students will be provided with the foundation to applying data governance as an approach to better manage and exploit data and knowledge in an enterprise environment. Topics include Semantic Web, definition of graph schemas, concept interlinking, querying knowledge graphs, concept detection and inferencing, federated querying, data value chains, value creation, and data governance.

Study-unit Aims:

Through this study -unit, students will be given the opportunity to:
- learn the foundations of Semantic Web Technologies;
- learn the relevant techniques used for interlinking, federated querying, reasoning over structured data;
- learn how to design, construct, store and query knowledge graphs;
- learn how to apply big data tools and infrastructure (e.g., Spark) to build and query knowledge graphs;
- learn how to govern data and manage data value chains;
- learn and work both independently and within groups;
- develop balance between theoretical and practical skills.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- gain an in depth understand of the data structures used in the context of knowledge graphs;
- analyse and evaluate the challenges behind knowledge graph creation;
- create, process and manage large knowledge graphs;
- critically understand data governance, data value chains and the principles behind them.

2. Skills
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- employ big data technologies to design, construct and query enterprise-level knowledge graphs;
- design effective techniques to combine and query data from structured and unstructured data sources;
- employ techniques for federated querying over local and external knowledge graphs;
- employ techniques to effectively interlink and reason over structured data;
- design a data value chain based on a real-life use case, optimised through the definition of value creation processes;
- design a data governance approach for a real-life use case.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

- Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs in Large Organisations. Jeff Z. Pan, Guido Vetere, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez and Honghan Wu. ISBN 978-3-319-45652-2.
- DAMA-DMBOK: Data Management Body of Knowledge (2nd Edition). Dama International. ISBN-13: 978-1634622349.

 
ADDITIONAL NOTES Pre-Requisite Study-unit: ICS5111

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture and Independent Study

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Project Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S

 

 
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