Web Information Systems

Lectures cover the following topics in this approximate order:

• Introduction and Context: libraries and the web
• Bibliographic and information theory: identity, objects, and description
• Markup and semi-structured data: XML, Schema, XSLT
• Inteoperability (extracting and manipulating web information)
• Ontologies
• Semantic web: RDF, OWL
• Information networks
• Practices: intellectual property, eScience, preservation of information

Slides set in pdf and appropriate examples will be posted shortly following each lecture.

S#	Topic	Download PDF
1	Course Introduction - Points on a Spectrum	Lecture Notes
2	Coherence and Invisibility: The Library Behind the Curtain	Lecture Notes
3	Internet and Web: History, Politics, Standards	Lecture Notes
4	Architecture of the World Wide Web	Lecture Notes
5	Content: What is stuff	Lecture Notes
6	Identifiers	Lecture Notes
7	Markup Language	Lecture Notes Examples
8	Namespaces and XML Schema	Lecture Notes Examples
9	Manipulating XML (XPath and XSLT)	Lecture Notes Examples
10	XSLT (2)	Lecture Notes Examples
11	XSLT 3	Lecture Notes Examples
12	Syndication and Mashups	Lecture Notes
13	Project 1 Overview	Assignment Examples
14	Web Publishing and Editing (Atom Publication Protocol)	Lecture Notes
15	Semantic Web: Knowledge Representation on the Web	Lecture Notes
16	Semantic Web Basics (RDF)	Lecture Notes
17	RDF Meta Model and RDF Schema	Lecture Notes
18	Description Logics and Web Ontology Language	Lecture Notes
19	Inference and Querying Triple Stores(cont.)	Lecture Notes Examples
20	Building and Testing Ontologies with Protege and Racer	Lecture Notes
21	Building and Testing Ontologies with Protege and Racer (2)	Lecture Notes
22	Microformats and RDF-A	Lecture Notes
23	Compound Information Objects	Lecture Notes
24	Scholarly Communication, Escholarship, repositories	Lecture Notes
25	Longevity and Preservation of Digital Information	Lecture Notes