Contents

• Data models for web data.
• Essentials of XML (Extensible Markup Language)
• XML dialicts - XHTML, SOAP,
• Semantic Web concepts
• RDF (Resource description framework)
• Ontologies
• Link to classical databases
• XML-enabled and native-XML databases
• Survey of typical applications
• Cases study

Goal

Computer applications increasingly have access to online data and exchange data with other online applications. Huge amounts of data are now stored in "the Cloud". This "web of data" includes data mined from online sources such as social websites. The first goal of this course is to introduce the essentials necessary for designing systems and exploiting the possibilities opened up for sharing data and building information systems and services around the web of data. The second goal is to introduce concepts that turn "data" into "knowledge"; how to attach semantics to data so that applications can process it more meaningfully and intelligently.

Collection of articles.

Tuesdays at 1.00 - 5.15 p.m. in the period from 4 February - 22 April 2014.

Lectures and exercises.

20 min. individual oral exam based on a written assignment incl. grading.

External examiner and 7 step scale.

Wednesday 4 June 2014.

20 min. individual oral exam based on a written assignment incl. grading.

External examiner and 7 step scale.

Before end of August 2014.

The student taking this course will

• be familiar with XML and associated languages such as DTD and Query;
• know how to use XML for modelling data, storing and retrieving it in databases;
• know how online data can be exploited by applications;
• understand the basic concepts of the Semantic Web;
• know how to store, query and retrieve XML data in conventional databases.