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Background Reading/References
 

Resources

Note: A lot of material below is on semi-structured data, which is only one component of this course as this is not primarily a database course (and hence we will not cover small subset of reading on this topics).

Search Engines

• Web Search
  • General: World Wide Web Search Technologies - Wen-Chen Hu
  • Example Search Engine: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
  • Usage: Introduction to Search Engines - Kansas City Public Library
  • Crawling Technical: High-Performance Web Crawling, Najork, Marc ; Heydon, Allan, HP Report.(html)
  • General Technical: "Searching the Web," Arvind Arasu, Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Andreas Paepcke.
    ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 1 (1), pp. 2-43, August 2001
  • Ranking: Google: Page Rank, Teoma: Subject-Specific Popularity
  • Example Simple Web Crawler with Code
• MetaSearch: Technical Tutorial (Weyi Meng),
• Specialized Search
  • Digital Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing (1999) - Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Kurt Bollacker IEEE Computer
• "Web Mining : A Bird's Eye view" Tutorial at WISE 2002.

Web Directories and Categorization

• Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Gullì, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Automatic Web Page Categorization by Link and Context Analysis (1999)  
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• Tools for Taxonomies, Browsable Directories, and Classifying Documents into Categories
• A Nice Overview Presentation on Automatic Categorization (Industry Perspective) by R. Kirk Lubbes

Enterprise and B2B Portals

• Portal Building: Example of State of the art Portal Building Software by Microsoft
• Portal Fundamentals (from Portal Community)
• Enterprise Information Portals White Paper (Unitas Corp)
• Managing Unstructured Content in Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs) (Unitas Corp)
• A Single View: Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data/Information within the Enterprise (Unitas Corp)

Component technologies

• A. Sheth et al. Semantic Content Management for Enterprises and the Web, IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2002, pp. 80-87.
• B. Hammond, et al, Semantic Enhancement Engine: A Modular Document Enhancement Platform for Semantic Applications over Heterogeneous Content

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Background Reading Material

Books:

• Web-Powered Databases - Johanna Wenny Rahayu , David Taniar; Monash University
• Data on the Web From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML - Serge Abiteboul
• Web-Enabled Systems Integration: Practices and Challenges Ajantha Dahanayake , Waltraud Gerhardt

Semi-structured Data, XML, RDF & related Technology

• XML Tutorial  Another XML Tutorial
• RDF Tutorial  Another RDF Tutorial  Yet Another RDF Tutorial
• RDF Schema
• XML Databases - Ronald Bourret
• XML Query
• RDF Query Language: RQL
• "XML: The Base Technology for the Semantic Web"  Tutorial at WISE 2002.
• Semi-structured Data Models: OEM, XML DTD, XML Schema, ...
• Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology - Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness

Readings on metadata (content and applications)

• Metadata Management with JMI (Article by Mosher, presentation at JavaOne-2001),
• Review papers:  Metadata for building the MultiMedia Patch Quilt by Shah et al 1995,
• Overview on Using Metadata to Manage Multimedia Data by Boll et al 1998

Tutorials/Talks/Resources:

• Search Engines
  • Search Engines: The Hunt Is On
  • The Streaming Search Engine That Reads Your Mind
  • Structuring and Indexing the Internet: Ray Denenberg
  • Search Engines for the World Wide Web: A Comparative Study and Evaluation Methodology: Heting Chu, Marilyn Rosenthal
• Crawler
  • FunnelBack
• Indexing
  • Getting to the Heart of the Matter: The Art of Indexing Web Sites By Cheryl A. Lemmens
• Web Services
  • Serge Abiteboul: Web Services and Web Integration Keynote at WISE 2002.
  • Amit Sheth Mysteries of Metadata: tutorial by at Content World, Burlingame, Ca, May 2001
  • Jan Newmarch "Web Services for the Technical Practitioner"  Tutorial at WISE 2002.
  • Tutorial on Java Web Services 
  • Cardoso, Bussler, Sheth: Tutorial on Semantic Web Services and Processes: Semantic Composition and Quality of Service

Tim Finin, An Overview and Underview of the Semantic Web, October 2002

Other reading:

Related Courses:

• Course by Christopher Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze on Text Information Retrieval, Mining, and Exploitation
• Weiyi Meng's Course on Web Data Management
• Dan Suciu's graduate course on Managing XML and Semistructured Data
• Joachim Hammer's graudate course on Data Management and XML

• Information Systems 202 - Information Organization and Retrieval

Robert Meersman and Amit Sheth, SIGMOD Record Special Issue on "Semantic Web, Database Management and Information Systems," December 2002.

Michael Denny's Survey of Ontology Editing software

Russel Letson, Taxonomies put Content in Context, Transform, December 2001

Ontology in a Nutshell (cache), Fabien Gandon's 2d Knowledge Management Summer School (INRIA). Source

Taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and other systems of knowledge organization  Terms defined
Ontology and Information Systems by Barry Smith What is Ontology at Ontolog.org

Magkanaraki et al  Ontology Storage and Querying

Industry reports with substance:

• General: Delphi on Taxonomy and Content Classification, Yankee Group on Enterprise Content Management,
• Company Specific: Documentum Content Intelligence, Semagix Enterprise Semantic Platform

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Where can you go to find more information:

• NEC's Scientific Literature Digital Library (CiteSeer)

• Science Direct

• Lukas C. Faulstich's Bibliography on Semistructured Data

• Portals Magazine Research Center

• Google

• Search Engine News

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