Objectives and competences
The objective of this course is for students to be able to demonstrate an understanding of markup language XML and to be able to use its derivates.Conditions for course completion: to attend the written exam, the student must have at least 80% attendance on the laboratory work and a positive grade from the laboratory work.
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Introduction: services in telecommunications, data structuring.
• Basics of XML: elements, well-formed XML document, namespaces.
• Data presentation: CSS style sheets, XSL-FO.
• XML documents validation: DTD, XML schemas.
• Structure transformation: XSLT, XPath.
• Programming and XML: event-driven programming, JavaScript, DOM, JSON, AJAX.
• XML and databases: XQuery.
• XML markup languages in telecommunications
• RDF data model, RDF/S, SPARQL
• Ontology: definition, OWL language, consistency, classification.
• Ontology in real life.
Learning and teaching methods
• Lectures: in lectures, students get to know the theoretical contents of the course. Lectures are conducted as classical lectures in frontal form, interleaved with discussions on the practical application.
• Tutorials: in tutorial exercises, students are informed about lab work.
• Lab work: in laboratory exercises, students apply acquired knowledge on problems from telecommunications. They improve their transferable skills by using an integrated development tool.
• Quizzes: in quizzes, students test their understanding of theoretical contents.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course the student will be able to
• explain the basics of markup languages,
• select the appropriate XML structure for given data and construct the program for processing the XML document,
• apply knowledge of ontology building and using.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
• Communication skills: oral defense of computer skills, manner of expression at the written examination.
• Use of information technology: use of software tools for XML document manipulation and ontology building.
• Problem solving: problem analysing, looking for solution, coding ant testing of programs
Readings
• D. Hunter, J. Rafter, J. Fawcett , E. van der Vlist , D. Ayers, J. Duckett, A. Watt, L. McKinnon, Beginning XML, 4th Edition, Wrox, 2007
• Y. Ding, P. Groth: Ontology Engineering, Morgan and Claypool, 2019
• S. Jacobs, Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax, Apress, 2006.
• D. Allemang, J. Hendler: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologies, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington, 2011
Prerequisits
Recommended is the basic knowledge of programming, data structures and algorithms.Conditions for course completion: to attend the written exam, the student must have at least 80% attendance on the laboratory work and a positive grade from the laboratory work.
Additional information on implementation and assessment The written exam may be substituted with continuous knowledge testing and assessment.
