Lecturer: Conor Hayes
Hours per week: 1
This course provides a foundation to the area of the Semantic Web (and Semantic Web Services). The course begins by introducing the history of the Web and standards such as HTML and XML. We will continue by detailing recent collaborative and social applications in what is called "Web 2.0" (blogs, wikis, etc.). In the second half of the course we will describe the move towards the Semantic Web, where computers can make sense of the underlying meaning in the Web and thereby aid people to use this information in new ways. Finally we will introduce the languages of the Semantic Web: RDF (resource description framework) and OWL (web ontology language).
The main topics are as follows:
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Lecturer: Siegfried Handschuh
Hours per week: 2
The course deals about the efficient access on multimedia data as well as the need for the support in structuring the data. Semantic Web techniques (XML, RDF) in combination with multimedia standards such as MPEG-7 are providing the fundamental framework to tackle these needs. In the scope of this course, the students will examine topics like annotation of pictures, metadata-based retrieval, hypermedia and
Lecturer: Axel Polleres
Hours per week: 1
In this course we will cover various aspects of Informaction processing and integration of Web data and other data available in Web formats such as XML. The lecture will be held in 3 blocks: