Readings will be posted one week in advance, lecture slides will be online after lectures. You should be able to resolve the links to the listed readings from within the Cornell domain. Please let us know if a link doesn't work.
Week1: Course Introduction
Readings
- V. Bush. As We May Think; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945.
- T. Berners-Lee et al. Creating a Science of the Web
- T. Heath, C. Bizer Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space, Chapters 1-3
Lectures
Week2: History and Architecture of The Internet
Lectures
Week3: History and Architecture of The Web
Recommended Background Readings:
- I. Jacobs, N. Walsh, Architecture of the World Wide Web, W3C 2004
- R. Fielding et al., Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, 1999
Lectures:
Week4: Web Architecture - Structured Formats
Recommended Background Readings:
- XML Schema Part 0: Primer, 2004
- RELAX-NG Home Page, 2011
- Bray, T., Hollander, D., and Layman, A., Namespaces in XML ., W3C 2009
Lectures:
Week5: Web Architecture - Structured Formats (cont'd)
Recommended Background Readings:
- Tobias Schlitt & Jacob Westhoff 'XPath'. [html], [pdf]
- Eric Wilde. XML Foundations, Berkley University (Fall 2010)
Lectures:
Week6: Recap & Cross Cutting Issue 1
Required Readings on Internet Surveillance:
- Alissa Cooper. Doing the DPI Dance - Assessing the Privacy Impact of Deep Packet Inspection (2011), In Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Bill Aspray and Phil Doty, 139 – 165. Scarecrow Press.
- Fuchs, C. New Media, Web 2.0 and Surveillance. (2011), Sociology Compass, 5: 134–147. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00354.x
- Hal Roberts and John Palfrey. The EU Data Retention Directive in an Era of Internet Surveillance. (2011), Chapter 3. In Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace, ed. R. Deibert, J. Palfrey, R. Rohozinski, and J. Zittrain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lectures:
Week7: RESTful Webservice APIs
Recommended Readings:
- Foy Fielding: Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (Chapters 4-6).
- Brian Mulloy: RESTful API Design - Second Edition (free eBook + Webcast)
Lectures:
Week8: Global Data Networks
No readings this week because of fall break
Lectures:
- TUE: Fall Break
- THU: Global Data Networks Intro
Week9: Linked Data Technologies
Readings:
Lectures:
Week10: Publishing Structured Web Data
Readings:
- Heath, Bizer: Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (Chapter 5)
- Mika, Potter: Metadata Statistics for a Large Web Corpus
- Schema.org Tutorial
- Open Graph Protocol
Lectures:
Week11: Making Use of Structured Web Data
Readings:
- Google Knowledge Graph: things, not strings
- Google Refine tutorials
- Kalyanpur et al.: Structured data and inference in DeepQA
Lectures:
Week12: Student Projects - Preliminary Results Presentations
There are no lectures this week and therefore no readings and no slides.
But you will have the opportunity to present your preliminary project results to us and your fellow students.
Week13: Cross Cutting Issues 2 + 3
Readings:
- Herbert Van de Sompel et al.: Memento: Time Travel for the Web
- Edith Law and Luis von Ahn: Human Computation (Chapters 1,2,5,6,7).
Lectures:
Week14: Cross Cutting Issue 4: Citizen Science
Readings:
Lectures:
- TUE: tba
- There is no class on Thursday. Have a nice Thanksgiving!