School of Electronics and Computer Science:
COMP6045 Hypertext and Web Technologies for Masters
Basic Information
| School | |
|---|---|
| Known as | COMP6045. |
| Session and Semester | Semester One, 2011 - 2012 |
| Credit | 10 Credit Points |
| Unit Leader | Dr Les A Carr |
| Teachers | Dr Nicholas Gibbins |
| Moderators | Professor Hugh C. Davis |
| Study | Reading and tutorial exercises |
| Assessment | Exam 70% Coursework 30% |
| Coursework | There is one coursework which involves writing a short paper |
| Teaching | Lectures 24 |
| Referral | On referral, this unit will be assessed 100% by examination. |
| Syllabus Approved |
Description
Aims
The aim of this course is to teach the students the technologies and techniques for creating large-scale hypertext information systems on the WWW. Based on recent hypertext research and current WWW standards it will address the issues of publishing individual documents and sites together with the problems of global information management.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Principles of Web Architecture
- Principles of Web Information Design
- Searching the Web Graph
- the factors that have led to the development of the web in its present form and current trends in the development of hypertext in the web.
Intellectual Skills
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to:
- Use XML, XSL, XLink and SMIL appropriately to create documents.
- Design the information structure of an entire Web site.
- Understand the algorithms of text- and image-based search engines.
- Make use of metadata schemas to describe resources and to process those descriptions.
- create their own analysis of the reasons for trends in the web and its future directions.
Practical Skills
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to:
- Creating Web Information Resources using the latest W3C standards
Topics Covered
- Current Web data standards
- XML, XSL, XLink, DOM, SMIL
- Processing XML documents
- Deploying XML data
- Current Web metadata standards
- RDF, RDF-SCHEMA
- Ontologies, Dublin Core
- Metadata processing
- Surfing the semantic web
- Hypertext past, present and future: research issues
- The Pioneers of Hypertext
- Web 1.0 and its competitors
- Web 2.0 and the social web
- The Web of distributed information
- Web 3.0 and the semantic web
- Web Site Construction
- Hypermedia Engineering
- Hypermedia Development Methods
- Hypermedia Developent Techniques
- Web Site Maintenance
- Case study
- Web Searching
- Information retrieval history
- Search engine algorithms
- Case studies: Harvest, Google, Inquirus
Methods of assessment
| Assessment method | Number | % contribution to final mark |
|---|---|---|
| Examination [exam] | 1 | 70 |
| Research Issues in Hypertext Paper [cwork] | 1 | 30 |
Feedback and student support during module study
- The XML part of the course has regular practical exercises
Resources
Core Resources
- Lowe D and Hall W, Hypermedia and the Web-An Engineering Approach, Wiley 1999
- Rosenfeld L, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly 2002
Background Resources
- Deitel, Deitel and Goldberg, Internet and World Wide Web - How To Program, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall 2004
Taught to
COMP6045
MSc in Software Engineering (Optional)MSc in Web Science (Compulsory)
MSc in Web Technology (Compulsory)
Non-existing cohort: "cwMScWs" (Compulsory)
Students who are not registered on an ECS approved programme may take this module subject to meeting its pre-requisites and the availability of resources. To confirm this, please can you contact the module leader (as listed above) in the first instance. They will then refer you on to the appropriate director of studies for formal approval of your selection.