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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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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
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