Course Schedule:
Week 1- (September 2) Course Overview and Introductions
Primary Readings
- Course Syllabus (reviewed in class)
Deliverables
- Personal Introductions
- Class Weblog account setup
- Classwork: Blogging & RSS Readers
Week 2 - (September 9) Semantic Web Roadmap
Primary Readings
-
Daconta, Michael C., et al.
The
Semantic Web : A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and
Knowledge Management
. 2003.
- Chapters 1, 2 and 9
- Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J. and Lassila, O. " The Semantic Web ". Scientific American, May 2001.
- Berners-Lee, T. 1999 Web Architecture from 50,000 Feet .
Secondary Readings
- W3 Org, " Semantic Web Activity ".
Deliverables
- Tagging system account setup
- Topic Introductions
Week 3 - (September 16) Semantic Documents [Top]
Primary Readings
-
Daconta, Michael C., et al.
The
Semantic Web : A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and
Knowledge Management
. 2003.
- Chapter 3 - Understanding XML and it's Impact on the Enterprise
- Chapter 5 - Understanding the Resource Description Framework
- Chapter 6 - Understanding the Rest of the Alphabet Soup
Secondary Readings
Deliverables
- Discussion: What isn't the Semantic Web?
- Classwork: Using feed reader applications and blog posting demonstrations
- Ongoing weblog posting and commentary
Week 4 - (September 23) Lightweight Semantics [Top]
Primary Readings
- Meyer, Eric. (2005). Emergent Semantics . Presentation at South by SouthWest Interactive. March 13, 2005.
- Marshall, Catherine C. (2004). Taking a Stand on the Semantic Web .
- Microformats
- Structured Blogging
- Microformats Wiki
Secondary Readings
- POSH: Plain, Old Semantic HTML
- Harper, Simon (2004). Lightweight Mark-Up for Low Cost Semantics .
Deliverables
-
Classwork: Microformats discussion
- Ongoing weblog posting and commentary
Week 5 - (September 30) Web Services [Top]
Primary Readings
-
Daconta, Michael C., et al.
The
Semantic Web : A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and
Knowledge Management
. 2003.
- Chapter 4 - Understanding Web Services
Secondary Readings
- Skonnard, Aaron. (2003) Understanding SOAP
- Vasudevan, Venu. (2001) A Web Services Primer
- Bausch, Paul. (2005) Yahoo! Web Services
- Yahoo! Developer Network Home
- He, Hao. (2003) What Is Service-Oriented Architecture?
- What is eBay Web Services?
- Amazon Web Services
- Web Services Description Language
- SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework
- Shirky, Clay. (2002) Web Services - An Executive Summary
- Dornfest, Rael and Shirky, Clay. (2002) Emerging Technology Briefs: SOAP
Deliverables
- Discussion: How do Web Services help with Semantic Web Technologies?
- Ongoing weblog posting and commentary
Week 6 - (October 7) Semantic Organization: Taxonomies & Ontologies [Top]
Primary Readings
- Daconta, Michael C., et al. The Semantic Web : A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management . 2003.
- Chapter 7 - Understanding Taxonomies
- Chapter 8 - Understanding Ontologies
Secondary Readings
- Fensel, Dieter and Frank van Harmelen, Ian Horrocks, Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter F. Patel-Schneider. (2001) OIL: An Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems. pp 38-45.
Deliverables
- Ongoing weblog posting and commentary
Week 7 - (October 14) User-driven Semantics: Folksonomies & Tags [Top]
Primary Readings
- Vander Wal, Thomas. (2005). Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies.
- Sterling, Bruce. (2005) Order Out of Chaos. WIRED Magazine 13.04, April 2005.
- Mathes, Adam. (2004) Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata. Computer Mediated Communication - LIS590CMC, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, December 2004.
- Clay Shirky. (2005) Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags.
- Gruber, Tom. (2005) Ontology of Folksonomy: A Mash-up of Apples and Oranges
- Golder, Scott A. and Bernardo A. Huberman. (2005) The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
- Guy, Marieke and Emma Tonkin. (2006) Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? D-Lib Magazine, January 2006. Volume 12 Number 1.
Secondary Readings
- You're It: a blog on tagging
- Weinberger, David. (2006) Taxonomies and Tags: From Trees to Piles of Leaves
- Sinha, Rashmi. (2005) A cognitive analysis of tagging
- Porter, Joshua. (2005) Controlled Vocabularies and Folksonomies: Why Change is Good.
- Merholz, Peter. (2004) Metadata for the Masses
Deliverables
- Classwork - Naming and tagging
- Ongoing weblog posting and commentary
Week 8 - (October 21) Web 2.0 [Top]
Primary Readings
- O'Reilly, Tim. (2005) What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. O'Reilly (http://www.oreilly.com/), Sept. 30, 2005.
- Singel, Robert (2005). Are You Ready for Web 2.0? WIRED Magazine. Oct. 6, 2005.
- Garrett, Jesse James. (2005) Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications . Essay from Adaptive Path Website, Feb. 18, 2005.
Secondary Readings
- ZDNET Web 2.0 Explorer Blog
- Web 2.0 Journal
- ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix (Updated daily)
- Roush, Wade. (2005) Web 2.0 had arrived . MIT Technology Review Magazine. Oct. 7, 2005.
Deliverables
- Ongoing weblog posting and commentary
- Discuss Research Paper and Development Project progress
Week 9 - (October 28) No Class - ASIS&T Annual Meeting [Top]
Week 10 - (November 4) Semantic Collaboration: Social Software [Top]
Primary Readings
- O'Reilly, Tim. (2003) The Architecture of Participation. O'Reilly Developer Weblogs, April 6, 2003.
- Hammond, Tony and Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, Joanna Scott. (2005) Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review D-Lib Magazine, April 2005. Volume 11 Number 4.
- Lund, Ben and Tony Hammond, Martin Flack, Timo Hannay. (2005) Social Bookmarking Tools (II): A Case Study - Connotea. D-Lib Magazine, April 2005. Volume 11 Number 4.
Secondary Readings
Deliverables
- Ongoing weblog posting and commentary
- Discuss Research Paper and Development Project progress
Week 11 - (November 11) Semantic Discovery: Information Retrieval & Agents [Top]
Primary Readings
- Passin, Chris. (2005) Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web, Chapter 5: Searching. Manning Press.
- Guha, R., McCool, Rob and Miller, Eric. (2003) Using the semantic web: Semantic search. Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web. May 2003.
- Finin, Tim and Anupam Joshi (2002) Agents, Trust, and Information Access on the Semantic Web. ACM SIGMOD, December 2002.
- Hearst, Marti A. (2006) Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration. Communications of the ACM, pp 59-61.
- Marchionini, Gary (2006) Exploratory Search: From Finding to Understanding. Communications of the ACM, pp 41-46.
Secondary Readings
- Finin, Tim & Li Ding, Rong Pan, Anupam Joshi, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, and Yun Peng (2005) Swoogle: Searching for knowledge on the Semantic Web. AAAI 05 (intelligent systems demo).
- Mindswap: Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab Semantic Web Agents Project
- Finin, Tim and James Mayfield, Clay Fink, Anupam Joshi and R. Scott Cost (2002) Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on System Sciences. January 03, 2005
Deliverables
- Ongoing weblog posting and commentary
- Discuss Research Paper and Development Project progress
Week 12 - (November 18) Semantic Visualization [Top]
Primary Readings
- Egenhofer, Max J. (2002) Toward the semantic geospatial web. Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems. November 2002
- Turner, T. C., Smith, M. A., Fisher, D., and Welser, H. T. (2005). Picturing Usenet: Mapping computer-mediated collective action. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(4), article 7.
Secondary Readings
- Lamantia, Joe. (2006) Tag Clouds Evolve: Understanding Tag Clouds .
- Benzinger, Brian. Solution Watch Blog. (2005) Visualizing Del.icio.us Roundup
- di Fenizio, Pietro Speroni. (2005) On Tag Clouds, Metric, Tag Sets and Power Laws
- Revealicious: A set of visualizations
- Sinha, Rashmi. (2005) Clustering comes to Flickr
- Weinberger, David. (2004) The Semantic Earth . Release 1.0, January 2004.
- Microsoft MapPoint Home .
- MetaCarta .
- Unofficial Google Maps Embedding How To .
- Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets .
- Google Maps API Home .
- Google Earth Home .
- Weinberger, David. (2004) Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye WIRED Magazine. 12.10. October, 2004.
Deliverables
- Classwork: Designing a tag cloud & presenting dynamic information
- Ongoing weblog posting and commentary
- Discuss Research Paper and Development Project progress
Week 13 - (November 25) Semantic Desktop [Top]
Primary Readings
- Vander Wal, Thomas. (2005) Understanding the Personal Info Cloud (presentation).
- Sauermann, Leo, Bernardi, A. and Dengel, A. (2005) Overview and Outlook on the Semantic Desktop . Semantic Desktop Workshop at 4th International Semantic Web Conference. Galway Ireland.
- Quan, Dennis and Karger, David R. (2004) How to Make a Semantic Web Browser Proceedings of the 2004 World Wide Web Conference. New York, NY.
- Ozzie, Ray (2006) Wiring the Web . Presentation at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference .
- Sauermann, Leo and Schwarz, Sven. (2005) Introducing the Gnowsis Semantic Desktop . Semantic Desktop Workshop at 4th International Semantic Web Conference. Galway Ireland
Secondary Readings
- Moller, Knud and Decker, Stefan. (2005) Harvesting Desktop Data for Semantic Blogging . Semantic Desktop Workshop at 4th International Semantic Web Conference. Galway Ireland.
- Cutrell, E., DC Robbins, D.C., Dumais, S.T. and Sarin, R. (2006) Fast and flexible filtering with PHLAT - Personal search and organization made easy . Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interface (CHI). Montreal, Quebec Canada.
- Chirita, P.A., Gavriloaie, R., Ghita, S., Nejdl, W. and Paiu, R.. (2005) Activity Based Metadata for Semantic Desktop Search Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3532, Jan 2005, Pages 439 - 454.
Deliverables
- Discussion - How can Semantics and Web 2.0 help you work?
Week 14 - (December 2) [Top]
Primary Readings
Secondary Readings
Deliverables
- Discussion - Which will win - Web 2.0, Web services or the (traditional) Semantic Web?
- Final week for weblog posting and commentary applicable for grading.
- Research Papers Due
- Development Project demonstration presentations