Introduction to the Semantic Web – What is Semantics; Syntax, Structure and Semantics, Layered Cake Architecture; Structured Web Documents and Resource Description Framework – Understanding content, Metadata, metadata standards, XML + metadata specification, RDF and metadata processing; Programming with RDF/XML; Web Ontology Language (OWL)- Domain Modeling, Logic, Inferencing, Context; Logic Reasoning for the Semantic Web- Classification and semantic metadata extraction techniques: statistical, statistical learning/AI, lexical and natural language, knowledge based; Programming with Ontologies; Semantic Applications- semantic technology for services, search, personalization, contextual/custom/ enterprise applications; Linked Open data and next generation semantic content management; Research trends and open issues.