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Dr Alexiei Dingli

Web Science Stream

Introduction

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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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What is Web Science?

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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 Lecture2. A short history of the Internet and the WWW3. Web 1.04. Web 2.05. Web X.06. Knowledge management and the knowledge

life cycle7. Acquiring knowledge8. Modelling knowledge

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Introducing to Web Science (2)

9. Retrieving knowledge10.Reusing knowledge11. Publishing knowledge12.Maintaining knowledge13.The Semantic Web in the Industry14.Emerging Technologies15.Case Studies16.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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Logistics

• Lectures

• If you need help– Email me on alexiei.dingli@um.edu.mt– SMS me on 79424536

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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