Web Information Organization

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. History of the Web. Oxford Brookes University, 2002. PDF.
   Reading tips

   A concise yet thorough history of the origins and development of the Web. Pay particular attention to Appendices C and D, in which Tim Berners-Lee outlines his proposal for the project that would become the Web.

2. Berners-Lee, Tim. “Enquire Within upon Everything; Tangles, Links, and Webs; info.cern.ch.” In Weaving the Web. San Francisco: Harper, 1999. PDF.
   Reading tips

   This optional but short excerpt from Tim Berners-Lee’s book explains in his own words how the Web got started.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Yanowitz, Jason. “Under the hood of the Internet: an overview of the TCP/IP protocol suite.” Crossroads 1, no. 1 (September 1994): 8–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/197177.197182.
   Reading tips

   A brief and accessible introduction to TCP/IP, the protocols used on the Internet.

2. Kessler, Gary C. “An Overview of TCP/IP Protocols and the Internet”, 2010. http://www.garykessler.net/library/tcpip.html.
   Reading tips

   This memo provides a broad overview of the Internet and TCP/IP, with an emphasis on history, terms, and concepts. It is meant as a brief guide and starting point, referring to many other sources for more detailed information.

3. Leiner, Barry M, Vinton G Cerf, David D Clark, Robert E Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry G Roberts, and Stephen Wolf. “A Brief History of the Internet.” arXiv:cs/9901011 (January 22, 1999). http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9901011.
   Reading tips

   Several founders of the Internet share their views of its origins and history. This history revolves around four distinct aspects: technological evolution, operations and management, social coordination, and commercialization.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Berners-Lee, Tim. “Protocols.” In Weaving the Web. San Francisco: Harper, 1999. PDF.
2. Taylor, Richard N., Nenad Medvidovic, and Eric M. Dashofy. “The Architecture of the Web.” In Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2010. PDF.
3. Wikipedia contributors. “Proxy server.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, January 5, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proxy_server&oldid=469688674.
4. Wikipedia contributors. “Web cache.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, September 10, 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_cache&oldid=449430080.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Richardson, Leonard, and Sam Ruby. “Resources, URIs, Addressability, Representations.” In RESTful Web Services, 81-94. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2007. PDF.
2. W3C Technical Architecture Group. “Identification.” In Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One. W3C, 2004. http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#identification.
3. W3C Technical Architecture Group. “Interaction.” In Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One. W3C, 2004. http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#interaction.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Wikipedia contributors. “Hypertext Transfer Protocol.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, January 24, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol&oldid=473032175.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Richardson, Leonard, and Sam Ruby. “The Uniform Interface.” In RESTful Web Services, 97-104. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2007. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Snell, James. “Getting to Know the Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 1: Create and Edit Web Resources with the Atom Publishing Protocol.” IBM developerWorks, October 17, 2006. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-atompp1/index.html.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Richardson, Leonard, and Sam Ruby. “Statelessness, Links and Connectedness.” In RESTful Web Services, 86-91, 94-96. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2007. PDF.
2. Amundsen, Mike. “Understanding Hypermedia.” In Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 & Node, 1-34. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2011. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Amundsen, Mike. “Designing the Microblog Media Type.” In Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 & Node, 95-110. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2011. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Chacon, Scott. “Getting Started.” In Pro Git, n.d. http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Taylor, Richard N., Nenad Medvidovic, and Eric M. Dashofy. “Architectural Style.” In Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice, 72-73. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2010. PDF.
2. Fielding, Roy. “Network-based Application Architectures & Network-based Architectural Styles.” In Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, 24-60. Irvine, CA: University of California, Irvine, 2000. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Taylor, Richard N., Nenad Medvidovic, and Eric M. Dashofy. “The REpresentational State Transfer Style.” In Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice, 416-422. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2010. PDF.
2. Fielding, Roy. “Designing the Web Architecture & Representational State Transfer.” In Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, 66-103. Irvine, CA: University of California, Irvine, 2000. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. O’Reilly Media. Tom Hughes-Croucher Interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo. San Francisco, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUCHr2H-7_g.
2. Topnik, Troy. “The Secrets of Node’s Success.” O’Reilly Radar, June 8, 2011. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/node-javascript-success.html.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Apache Software Foundation. “CouchDB: Introduction,” n.d. http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Introduction.
2. Anderson, J. Chris, Jan Lehnardt, and Noah Slater. “JSON Primer.” In CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. Draft. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, n.d. http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/json.html.
3. Anderson, J. Chris, Jan Lehnardt, and Noah Slater. “Getting Started.” In CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. Draft. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, n.d. http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/tour.html.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Birbeck, Mark. “Introduction to RDFa.” A List Apart, June 23, 2009. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/introduction-to-rdfa/.
2. Adida, Ben, and Mark Birbeck. RDFa Primer. W3C Working Group Note. W3C, n.d. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/.
3. Facebook. The Open Graph Protocol, n.d. http://ogp.me/.
4. Facebook. Core Concepts > Open Graph, n.d. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Ronallo, Jason. “HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org.” Code4Lib Journal, no. 16 (2012). http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6400.
2. WHAT Working Group. HTML Microdata, n.d. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html.
3. “Getting Started with Schema.org.” Schema.org, n.d. http://schema.org/docs/gs.html.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Tennison, Jeni. HTML Data Guide. W3C Interest Group Note. W3C, n.d. http://www.w3.org/TR/html-data-guide/.
2. Sporny, Manu. “An Uber-comparison of RDFa, Microdata and Microformats.” The Beautiful, Tormented Machine, June 25, 2011. http://manu.sporny.org/2011/uber-comparison-rdfa-md-uf/.
3. Narayanasamy, Selena. “A Visual Guide to Rich Snippets.” The Daily SEO Blog, March 13, 2012. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-visual-guide-to-rich-snippets.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Battle, Steve, and Speicher, Steve. Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements. W3C, n.d. http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp-ucr/.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Snell, James. “An Overview of the Atom 1.0 Syndication Format.” IBM developerWorks, August 2, 2005. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-atom10/.
2. Snell, James. “Getting to Know the Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 1: Create and Edit Web Resources with the Atom Publishing Protocol.” IBM developerWorks, October 17, 2006. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-atompp1/index.html.
3. Chappell, David. Introducing OData: Data Access for the Web, the Cloud, Mobile Devices, and More. Microsoft, May 2011. http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/5/A/E5A59052-EE48-4D64-897B-5F7C608165B8/IntroducingOData.pdf.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Pilgrim, Mark, and The Community. Dive into HTML5, n.d. http://diveintohtml5.info/.
2. Wilde, Erik. “HTML5 Landscape Overview.” Dretblog, n.d. http://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/html5-api-overview.html.
3. WHAT Working Group. HTML5: A Technical Specification for Web Developers. WHATWG, n.d. http://developers.whatwg.org/.
   Reading tips

   Read “A quick introduction to HTML”, “Semantics”, and “kinds of content”.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Neuberg, Brad. Introduction to HTML 5, 2009. https://vimeo.com/6691519.