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Introducing myself …• B.Sc IT (Hons)
– UOM– Multiple Platform Authoring Tool (MultiPlAT)
• Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence– University of Sheffield (UK)– Annotating the Semantic Web
• MBA in Technology Management– Grenoble Business School (France)– Aligning operations to strategy using the Balanced Scorecard
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Aim of the stream
• Look at the web– Its present form– Its future form
• How to make the best of the web
• Take a look from a practical perspective
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• To advance One Web that is free and open
• To expand the Web's capability and robustness
• To extend the Web's benefits to all people on the planet
Goals
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Who is who in Web Science?
• The stream was created (in alphabetical order) by ...
– Mr Charlie Abela– Dr Alexiei Dingli– Dr Matthew Montebello
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• Yr 2– Foundations of Web Science
• Yr 3– Engineering Web Science– Connecting Web Science
• MSc Web Science
How is the stream divided?
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Introducing the subject
• Foundations of Web Science
– Introduction to Web Science
– Introduction to XML Technologies
– Introduction to Knowledge Representation
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Introducing the Web Science (1)
1. Introductory Lecture
2. A short history of the Internet and the WWW
3. Web 1.0
4. Web 2.0
5. Web X.0
6. Knowledge management and the knowledge life cycle
7. Acquiring knowledge
8. Modelling knowledge
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Introducing to Web Science (2)
9. Retrieving knowledge
10.Reusing knowledge
11. Publishing knowledge
12.Maintaining knowledge
13.The Semantic Web in the Industry
14.Emerging Technologies
15.Case Studies
16.Assignment Presentation
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Introducing to XML Technologies (1)
• 1 XML • 2 DTD• 3 X-Schema• 4 SAX• 5 DOM• 6 X-Path• 7 X-Query
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Introducing to XML Technologies (2)
• 8 XSLT• 9 FOP• 10 X-Link• 11 X-Form• 12 Case Studies
• Lectures from industry
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Reading Material1. Stay updated via the WWW
2. Links – http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/– http://webscience.org/
3. Books
• A Semantic Web Primer• Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen
• Spinning the Semantic Web• Berners-Lee et All