CS/INFO 431 - Lectures

Lecture Schedule

Lectures over the semester will 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

This list of topics may be adjusted according to the interests and needs of the class. The following table will record the exact lecture schedule through the semester. Slides set in pdf and appropriate examples will be posted shortly following each lecture.

	Date	Topic	Lecture Materials
1	1/21	Course Introduction - Points on a Spectrum	Lecture Notes
1	1/23	Coherence and Invisibility: The Library Behind the Curtain	Lecture Notes
2	1/28	Internet and Web: History, Politics, Standards	Lecture Notes
2	1/30	Architecture of the World Wide Web	Lecture Notes
3	2/04	Content: What is stuff	Lecture Notes
3	2/06	Identifiers	Lecture Notes
4	2/11	Markup Language	Lecture Notes Examples
4	2/13	Namespaces and XML Schema	Lecture Notes Examples
5	2/18	Manipulating XML (XPath and XSLT)	Lecture Notes Examples
5	2/20	No Lecture
6	2/25	XSLT (2)	Lecture Notes Examples
6	2/27	XSLT 3	Lecture Notes Examples
7	3/3	Metadata Guest Lecture: Elaine Westbrooks
7	3/5	Syndication and Mashups	Lecture Notes
	3/7	Position Paper Due
8	3/10	Project 1 Overview	Assignment Examples
8	3/12	Web Publishing and Editing (Atom Publication Protocol)	Lecture Notes
	3/17	Spring Break
	3/19	Spring Break
9	3/24	Semantic Web: Knowledge Representation on the Web	Lecture Notes
9	3/26	Semantic Web Basics (RDF)	Lecture Notes
10	3/31	RDF Meta Model and RDF Schema	Lecture Notes
10	4/2	Description Logics and Web Ontology Language	Lecture Notes
11	4/7	Project 1 Due Inference and Querying Triple Stores(cont.)	Lecture Notes Examples
11	4/9	Building and Testing Ontologies with Protege and Racer	Lecture Notes
12	4/14	Building and Testing Ontologies with Protege and Racer (2)	Lecture Notes
12	4/16	Microformats and RDF-A	Lecture Notes
13	4/21	Reaction Paper 2 Due Compound Information Objects	Lecture Notes
13	4/23	Scholarly Communication, Escholarship, repositories	Lecture Notes
14	4/28	Longevity and Preservation of Digital Information	Lecture Notes
14	4/30	Wrap-up/Elevator Speak
	5/12	Project 2 Due