CS 502
Architecture of Web Information Systems
Spring 2003

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 Hollister 110.  Powerpoint slides for each lecture will be available shortly before the lecture.  Feel free to print these out as a note taking aid.  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 Monday evening from 7:30-8:30PM in Phillips 203.  Readings, which relate to the subject of the lecture, are assigned for each discussion 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

Date Event Topic Slides
Mon. 1/20 Lecture Introduction to course and course logistics L1
Wed. 1/22 Lecture The library legacy - theories, models, and systems.
Ross Atkinson - Associate University Librarian for Collections, Cornell U. Library 		L2
Mon. 1/27 Lecture World Wide Web - history, architecture, protocols L3
Mon. 1/27 Section From libraries to the Web: points on a spectrum
[readings]		  
Wed. 1/29 Lecture Principles of content and bibliographic theory  L4
Mon. 2/3 Lecture Identity and data types  L5
Mon. 2/3 Section Content and documents: from physical to digital
[readings]		  
Wed. 2/5 Lecture Introduction to markup: SGML, HTML, XML L6
Mon. 2/10 Lecture XML documents and data L7
Mon. 2/10 Section Documents and data, humans and machines
[readings]		  
Wed. 2/12 Lecture XSLT: transforming data L8
Mon. 2/17 Lecture The library cataloging tradition - Dewey, Ranganathan, and Avram.
Diane Hillmann - Metadata Specialist, Digital Library Research Group		 L9
Mon. 2/17 Section Metadata: changing contexts
[readings]		  
Wed. 2/19 Lecture Metadata for the Web - Issues and simple answers L10
Mon. 2/24 Lecture Metadata for the Web - From discovery to description L11
Mon. 2/24 Section Semantic Web: from data to knowledge
[readings]		  
Wed. 2/26 Lecture Basics of the Semantic Web  L12
Mon. 3/3 Lecture Semantic Web: ontologies and data models L13
Mon. 3/3 Section Interoperability Architectures [readings]  
Wed. 3/5 Lecture Interoperability Architectures L14
Mon. 3/10 Lecture Active and complex documents - FEDORA and Web Services
Sandy Payette - Digital Library Research Group		 L15 
Mon. 3/10 Section FEDORA, SODA, multi-valent documents
[readings]		  
Wed. 3/12 Lecture Quality and annotations L16

BREAK

Date Event Topic Slides
Mon. 3/24 Lecture Finding things: from standard information retrieval to the Web L17
Mon. 3/24 Section Web search engines
[readings]		  
Wed. 3/26 Lecture Web crawling and automatic discovery
Donna Bergmark, Researcher, Cornell Information Science		 L18
Fri. 3/28 Project 1st Project Due  
Mon. 3/31 Lecture Collections: real and virtual L19
Mon. 3/31 Section Automated digital libraries
[readings]		  
Wed. 4/2 Lecture Longevity of information - Physical and born-again digital
Anne Kenney, Assistant University Librarian for Instruction, Research, and Information Services, Cornell University Library		  CANCELLED
Mon. 4/7 Lecture Longevity of information - preservation in the digital world  L21
Mon. 4/7 Section Preservation and longevity issues and approaches
[readings]
Wed. 4/9 Lecture Intellectual Property - Introduction to Copyright
Peter Hirtle, Director of Learning Initiatives, Cornell University Library		   L22
Mon. 4/14 Lecture Rights Management - Languages and Mechanisms L23
Mon. 4/14 Section Special FEDORA Tutorial  
Wed. 4/16 Lecture Scholarly publishing issues L24
Mon. 4/21 Lecture Scholarly publishing case studies: arXiv and the Legal Information Institute
Simeon Warner, Research Associate, Cornell University
Tom Bruce, Co-Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell University		 L25-warner
L25-bruce 
Mon. 4/21 Section Scholarly publishing
[readings]		  
Wed. 4/22 Lecture Portals to distributed information environments  L26
Mon. 4/28 Lecture Applying the Semantic Web, Alex Faaborg, College Scholar Honors Candidate L27
Mon. 4/28 Section Trust and authority in the digital realm
[readings]		  
Wed. 4/30 Lecture National Science Digital Library: building the real thing L28
Fri.. 5/9 Review Paper Last review paper due  
Wed. 5/14 Project 2nd Project Due (Tentative)  

Carl Lagoze
(lagoze@cs.cornell.edu)
Last changed: April 30, 2003