INFO 4302 - [Web Information Systems]

(crosslisted)
(also CS 4302)

Fall. 3 credits.

Prerequisites: CS 2110 and some familiarity with web site technology. Next offered 2014-2015.

Staff.

Examines the architecture of web information systems such as distributed digital libraries and electronic publishing systems. Many of the topics presented are the subject of current research and development at Cornell, other universities, and in standards organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium. Course content mixes exploration of current tools for building web information systems such as XML, XSLT, and RDF with broader concepts such as techniques for knowledge representation and description, object models for content representation, and legal and economic impacts of web information. A theme that runs throughout the course is the relationship between traditional information environments, exemplified by libraries, and the distributed information environment of the web.