CS/INFO 431
Architecture of Web Information Systems
Spring 2006

Lecture Schedule and Slides

The exact lecture schedule will develop as the semester progresses.  Lecture slides will usually be available the day of the scheduled lecture.

1/23 Course Introduction - Points on a spectrum slides
1/25 Coherence and Invisibility: The
Library Behind the Curtain
slides
1/30 Basic Web Technologies and Standards slides
2/1 Bibliographic Theory - Information Unit Abstractions slides
2/6 Identifiers for Digital Objects slides
2/8 David Levy Guest - Information and Quality of Life  
2/13 Markup Languages - SGML, HTML, XML slides
2/15 Resource Description - Cataloging, Metadata, and Beyond slides
2/20 XML meta-languages - DTDs and Schema slides
2/22 Transforming and Manipulating XML - XPath, XSLT slides
2/27 XSLT Continued slides
3/1 XML/XSL Wrap up slides
3/6 Information Interoperability slides
3/8 Interoperability Continued - metadata syndication and harvesting slides
3/13 Interoperability Protocols - Dienst and OAI-PMH slides
3/15 Ontology Concepts and Design slides
3/27 Semantic Web Basics - Motivation and RDF slides
3/29 Semantic Web Basics continued - RDF model slides
4/3 Semantic Web Schema and Ontologies slides
4/5 Semantic Web - OWL slides
4/10 Building ontologies with Protege/OWL slides
4/12 Integrating Web Services, Content, and Semantic Relationships slides
4/17 Fedora slides
4/19 Information Network Overlays slides
4/21 Intellectual Property in the Digital Age - Peter Hirtle
(NOTE: Section will be on Monday 4/24)
slides
4/26 Scholarly publishing in the digital age slides
4/28 Expressing and enforcing policies for intellectual property - Vicky Weissman
(NOTE: Section will be on Monday 5/1)
slides
5/3 Wrap-up and Conclusions slides

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Carl Lagoze (lagoze@cs.cornell.edu
Last changed: 05/03/2006