CS 431
Architecture of Web Information Systems
Spring 2004

Syllabus

Note: changes may be made in this syllabus as the semester progresses.

Class Formats

Lectures

Twice weekly lectures are held Monday and Wednesday from 1:25 to 2:15 in Phillips 219.  Powerpoint slides for each lecture will be available shortly after the lecture.  I don't like one-way lectures and strongly encourage questions and discussion., which I will sometimes provoke through questions to you during lecture.  Participation in lectures will be a factor in overall participation grades.

Guest Lectures:  We are fortunate to have on campus a number of experts in fields related to the course.  Therefore, there will occasionally be a guest lecturer.  These are NOT optional and are considered part of the core material in the course.
 
Discussion Sections
Once a week discussion sections are held on Fridays.  Readings, which relate to the subject of the lecture, are assigned for each discussion section and will be listed the week before the section. It  is essential that everybody comes to class prepared to critically discuss the readings.

NOTE: Discussions dates that are in bold correspond to the due date/time of a review paper.  

Course Schedule

Preliminary and subject to change as the semester progresses

Date Event Topic Slides
Mon. 1/26 Lecture 1 Introduction to course and course logistics L1
Wed. 1/28 Lecture 2 The library legacy - theories, models, and systems.
John Saylor -  Director of Engineering and Computer Science Library		 L2
Fri. 1/30 Section 1 From libraries to the Web: points on a spectrum
[readings]		  
Mon. 2/2 Lecture 3 World Wide Web - history, architecture, protocols  L3
Wed. 2/4 Lecture 4 Principles of content and bibliographic theory  L4
Fri. 2/6 Section 2 Bibliographic Theory
[readings]		  
Mon. 2/9 Lecture 5 Identity and data types  L5
Wed. 2/11 No lecture - moved to Monday evening 2/16  
Fri. 2/13 Lecture 6 The library cataloging tradition
Marty Kurth - Metadata Specialist, Cornell University Libraries		 L6
Mon. 2/16 Section 3 Cataloging and Identifiers
[readings]		  
Mon. 2/16 Lecture 7 Introduction to markup: SGML, HTML, XML (special evening lecture, 7:30 301 College Ave.) L7
Wed. 2/18 Lecture 8 Metadata for the Web - Issues and simple answers L8
Fri. 2/20 Section 4 Metadata: changing contexts
[readings]		  
Mon. 2/23 Section 5 Document Architectures [readings]  
Mon.2/23 Lecture 9 XML documents and data (special evening lecture, 7:30 301 College Ave.) L9
Wed. 2/25 Lecture 10 XSLT: transforming data L10
Fri. 2/27   No Section  
Mon. 3/1 Lecture 11 Document Architectures - Sandy Payette, Researcher, Cornell Information Science  L11
Wed. 3/3 Lecture 12 Metadata Harvesting - Simeon Warner, Researcher, Cornell Information Science L12 (pdf)
Fri. 3/5   No Section  
Mon. 3/8 Section 6 Semantic Web: from data to knowledge
[readings]		  
Mon. 3/8 Lecture 13 Basics of the Semantic Web (special evening lecture, details to be announced) L13 
Wed. 3/10 Lecture 14 More semantic web L14
Fri. 3/12 Section 7 Applying the semantic web  [readings]  
Mon. 3/15 Lecture 15 RSS and Project Overview  L15
Wed. 3/17 Lecture 16 Semantic Web: ontologies L16
Fri. 3/19 No Section  

BREAK

Date Event Topic Slides
Mon. 3/29 Lecture 17 Web Scale Information Discovery L17
Wed. 3/31 Lecture 18 Web crawling and automatic discovery L18
Fri. 4/2 Section 8 Web Scale Information Analysis
[readings]		  
Mon. 4/5 Lecture 19 Focused web crawling and the NSDL
Introduction to Project 2		 L19
Wed. 4/7 Lecture 20 Longevity of information - Physical and born-again digital L20
Fri. 4/9 Section 9 Preservation and longevity issues and approaches
[readings]
Mon. 4/12 Lecture 21 Scholarly Publishing L21
Wed. 4/14 Section 10 Scholarly Publishing  Issues [readings]
Fri. 4/16 Lecture 22 Social Networks and Scholarly Publishing - Shay David, Ph.D. Student ST&S L22
Mon. 4/19 Lecture 23 Rights Management Overview - Peter Hirtle, Intellectual Property Officer, Cornell University Library L23 
Wed. 4/21 Lecture 24 Formal methods for rights management - Vicky Weissman, Ph.D. Student Computer Science L24
Fri. 4/23 Section 12 Rights Management
[readings]		  
Mon. 4/26 Lecture 25 Fedora Tutorial  
Wed. 4/28 Lecture 26 Case Study: The Legal Information Institute
Tom Bruce, Director LII		 L26 
Fri. 4/30 Section 13 Trust and authority in the digital realm
[readings]		  
Mon. 5/3 Lecture 27 Peer to Peer Systems L27
Wed. 5/5 Lecture 28 Elevator Speak L28

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Carl Lagoze (lagoze@cs.cornell.edu) 
Last changed: 05/05/2004