A growing collection of Web links relevant for this course.
Open Datasets
US Open Government Data (Data.gov), Other Open Government Data Sources
International Open Government Data Search
Project inspiration / Open Data Challenges
Background Readings
In addition to the readings recommended for each week of lecture the following background readings may be useful to further advance your conceptual understanding of web information systems and inspire your project ideas:
- B. Leiner et al. A Brief History of the Internet, 1999
- Bizer, C. and Heath, T. and Berners-Lee, T. (2009) Linked data-the story so far. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) 5(3). eprint version available at http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/271285/1/bizer-heath-berners-lee-ijswis-linked-data.pdf
- Sören Auer et al: Dbpedia: A nucleus for a web of open data. In: The Semantic Web, 2007.
- Georgi Kobilarov et at: How the BBC Uses DBpedia and Linked Data to Make Connections. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009, 5554, pp 723-737, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_53
- Herbert van de Sompel et al: An HTTP-Based Versioning Mechanism for Linked Data, Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010)
- Herbert van de Sompel et al: Adding eScience Assets to the Web of Data, Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009)
- US Open Government Directive
- John Sheridan and Jeni Tennison: Linking UK Government Data, Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010)
- Robert Sanderson and Herbert van de Sompel: Open Annotation
- Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish: Designing games with a purpose. Communications of the ACM 51(8), 58–67, 2008
Important Specifications
- URI: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax. (2005) RFC 3986
- http: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1. (1999) RFC 2616
- Web Architecture: Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One. (2004) W3C Recommendation
- HTML: HTML 4.01 Specification. (1999) W3C Recommendation
- XHTML: XHTML 1.0 - A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0. (2000/2002) W3C Recommendation
- XML: Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) (2008) W3C Recommendation
- XML Namespaces: Namespaces in XML. (2009) W3C Recommendation
- XML Schema (3 parts):
- XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition. (2004) W3C Recommendation
- W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures. (2012) W3C Recommendation
- W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes. (2012) W3C Recommendation
- XPath: XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (Second Edition). (2010) W3C Recommendation
- XSLT: XML Transformations.,(1999) W3C Recommendation
- DOM:
- DOM Version 1.0 (Level 1). (1998)
- DOM Version 1.0 (Level 2 Core). (2000)
- RELAX NG: RELAX-NG Home Page. (2011)
- JSON: Introducing JSON.
- YAML: YAML Specification (Version 1.2). (2009)
Tutorials
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