Web Information Organization

Who’s Teaching It

Ryan Shaw

When & Where It Is

Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00 AM-12:15 PM

Manning 014

What It Is

This advanced information organization course focuses on understanding and using the Web as a platform for building information systems. Students will learn how the Web has been designed to be used as a service platform, a data publishing platform, and an application platform. Specific topics to be covered include: resources and representations, URIs, HTTP, MIME types, REST, microdata, microformats, the Semantic Web, Linked Data, and HTML5. Although the course will involve some programming, the focus will not be on programming Web sites but on understanding and applying the organizational principles of the Web. Students will develop a deep understanding of information architecture, not at the level of individual Web sites, but of the Web as a whole.

Is That All?

Nope! You should probably check out the guidelines.