Web Information Organization
UNC SILS, INLS 620, Fall 2016
August 23
Ryan at PeriodO workshop
August 25
Ryan at PeriodO workshop
August 30
Internet Architecture
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The Web is built upon the Internet, so some basic knowledge of the Internet’s architecture is a prerequisite for understanding Web architecture.
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Galloway, Alexander R. “Introduction.” In Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization, 4–12. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. PDF.
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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.
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A brief and accessible introduction to TCP/IP, the protocols used on the Internet.
September 1
Internet Architecture (continued)
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September 6
What Happens When You Click on a Link
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 4,500 words
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Surfing the Web.” In RESTful Web APIs, 1–16. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.
September 8
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “A Simple API.” In RESTful Web APIs, 17–28. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.
September 13
Web Architecture: Components
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We can describe the basic architecture of the Web in terms of a set of components, connections between those components, and data transferred via these connections.
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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.
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Maglio, Paul, and Rob Barrett. “Intermediaries Personalize Information Streams.” Commun. ACM 43, no. 8 (August 2000): 96–101. doi:10.1145/345124.345158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/345124.345158.
September 15
Web Architecture: Connectors
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Wikipedia contributors. “Web cache.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, September 10, 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_cache&oldid=449430080.
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Apps, Ann, and Ross MacIntyre. “Why OpenURL?” D-Lib Magazine 12, no. 5 (May 2006). doi:10.1045/may2006-apps. http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/may2006-apps.
September 20
Resources & Representations
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 4,900 words
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Resources and Representations.” In RESTful Web APIs, 29–43. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.
September 22
Hypermedia I
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Hypermedia.” In RESTful Web APIs, 45–57. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.
September 27
Hypermedia II
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Domain-Specific Designs.” In RESTful Web APIs, 59–90. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013.
September 27
Designing a State Machine due
September 29
Hypermedia III
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “The Collection Pattern.” In RESTful Web APIs, 91–108. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013.
October 4
Architectural Properties & Styles
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “An API Designer’s Guide to the Fielding Dissertation.” In RESTful Web APIs, 341–55. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013.
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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.
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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.
October 6
REpresentational State Transfer (REST)
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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.
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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.
October 6
Resources and Representations due
October 11
University Day
October 13
Midterm Review
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “The Design Procedure.” In RESTful Web APIs, 157–97. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013.
October 18
Midterm
October 20
Fall Break
October 25
Implementing an HTTP Server I
October 27
Implementing an HTTP Server II
Before today please take a look at the documentation for the Flask framework and the Flask-RESTful extension.
November 1
Implementing an HTTP Server III
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November 3
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Pure-Hypermedia Designs.” In RESTful Web APIs, 109–32. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013.
November 8
Microdata
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Ronallo, Jason. “HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org.” Code4Lib Journal, no. 16 (2012). http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6400.
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WHAT Working Group. HTML Microdata, n.d. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html.
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“Getting Started with Schema.org.” Schema.org, n.d. http://schema.org/docs/gs.html.
November 8
Designing Representations due
November 10
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
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Lengstorf, Jason. “JSON: What It Is, How It Works, & How to Use It.” Copter Labs. Accessed October 23, 2014. http://www.copterlabs.com/blog/json-what-it-is-how-it-works-how-to-use-it/.
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Shaw, Ryan, and Murray Maloney. “8. The Forms of Resource Descriptions.” In The Discipline of Organizing, edited by Robert J. Glushko, 3rd ed. O’Reilly, 2015.
November 15
Resource Description Framework (RDF) & Linked Data
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Resource Description and Linked Data.” In RESTful Web APIs, 263–86. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.
November 17
JSON for Linked Data (JSON-LD)
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In addition to the reading below, you may also want to take a look at json-ld.org.
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Sporny, Manu. What Is JSON-LD?, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioCbTo3C-4.
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Lanthaler, Markus, and Christian Gütl. “On Using JSON-LD to Create Evolvable RESTful Services.” Lyon, 2012. http://www.markus-lanthaler.com/research/on-using-json-ld-to-create-evolvable-restful-services.pdf.
November 22
The Linked Data Platform
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The Linked Data Platform is an attempt to harmonize Linked Data practice with the REST architectural style.
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Battle, Steve, and Speicher, Steve. Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements. W3C, n.d. http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp-ucr/.
November 24
Thanksgiving
November 29
Web Security I
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Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Authentication.” In RESTful Web APIs, 249–57. O’Reilly, 2013.
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Stuttard, Dafydd, and Marcus Pinto. “Attacking Authentication.” In The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook, 2nd ed., 159–203. Wiley, 2011. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uncch/reader.action?ppg=195&docID=10494632.
December 1
Web Security II
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Stuttard, Dafydd, and Marcus Pinto. “Web Application (In)security.” In The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook, 2nd ed., 1–16. Wiley, 2011. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uncch/reader.action?ppg=37&docID=10494632&tm=1480427238223.
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Open Web Application Security Project. “OWASP Top 10 for 2013,” 2013. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013.
December 6
Project Work Day
You will work on your final projects, and I will be available for questions and troubleshooting.