Global Information Systems

CSCI 4350/6350 for Spring 2005.

Reading/Reference:

• XML:
  • Annotated XML Tutorial

  • XML Tutorial

  • XSLT

  • More XML Resources

• XSLT:
  • XSLT Introduction

  • Online XSLT tutorial with many examples

  • XML -> HTML conversion tutorial, good and simple

  • A higher-level introduction to XSL, XPath and XSLT

• XPath and XQuery
  • XPath Presentation

  • Xquery Presentation

  • Test your own XQuery

• XML Parsing
  • XPP Home

  • Joy of XML - from Stanford

  • Sax Home

  • Java Dom API- From Blackwood Project

• RDF:
  • W3C RDF resource page

  • Stefan Decker, Frank van Harmelen, Jeen Broekstra, Michael Erdmann, Dieter Fensel, Ian Horrocks , Michel Klein, Sergey Melnik: XML and RDF for the semantic Web

  • RDF Intro 1

  • RDF Intro 2

• RDF Query:
  • RDF Query Survey

  • RQL Demo

• RSS:
  • Pluck RSS browser plugin

• Semantic Web:
  • How it all began. "The semantic web." Scientific American Article by Tim Berners Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila.

  • Article: Semantic Meta Data For Enterprise Information Integration

  • Introduction to OWL, but also a very comprehensive explanation of Metadata, RDF(S), etc

• Ontologies:
  • Protege Ontology design tool

  • Holger Knublauch: Editing OWL Ontologies with Protégé

  • Mark A. Musen: Building Ontologies from the Ground Up

• Search Engines:
  • Jakarta Lucene open source text search engine

  • Nutch: A Flexible and Scalable Open-Source Web Search Engine

  • IBM future search engine

• Web Services
  • Perfect XML Web Service Tutorial

  • From Sun

  • W3 Schools : SOAP