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.

Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 22,000 words

To read before this meeting:

1. Verborgh, Ruben, and Seth van Hooland. “Modelling.” In Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata, 11–70. Facet Publishing, 2014. http://book.freeyourmetadata.org/chapters/1/modelling.pdf.

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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 22,000 words

To read before this meeting:

1. Verborgh, Ruben, and Seth van Hooland. “Modelling.” In Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata, 11–70. Facet Publishing, 2014. http://book.freeyourmetadata.org/chapters/1/modelling.pdf.

   22,000 words

Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 22,000 words

To read before this meeting:

1. Verborgh, Ruben, and Seth van Hooland. “Modelling.” In Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata, 11–70. Facet Publishing, 2014. http://book.freeyourmetadata.org/chapters/1/modelling.pdf.

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2. Birnbaum, David J. “What is XML and why should humanists care? An even gentler introduction to XML”, January 5, 2012. http://dh.obdurodon.org/what-is-xml.xhtml.

Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 22,000 words

To read before this meeting:

1. Verborgh, Ruben, and Seth van Hooland. “Modelling.” In Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata, 11–70. Facet Publishing, 2014. http://book.freeyourmetadata.org/chapters/1/modelling.pdf.

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To read before this meeting:

1. Eisenberg, J. David. “How to Read W3C Specs.” A List Apart, September 28, 2001. http://alistapart.com/article/readspec.
2. W3C. “RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax,” February 25, 2014. https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/.

To read before this meeting:

1. Lehn, David I. “JSON-LD Primer,” n.d. https://json-ld.org/primer/latest/.
2. W3C. “JSON-LD 1.1.” Public Working Draft. Accessed September 11, 2018. https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/.

Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 5,100 words

To read before this meeting:

1. DuCharme, Bob. “Jumping Right in: Some Data and Some Queries.” In Learning SPARQL: Querying and Updating with SPARQL 1.1, 2nd ed., 1–17. Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media, 2013. PDF.

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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 14,100 words

To read before this meeting:

1. DuCharme, Bob. “SPARQL Queries: A Deeper Dive.” In Learning SPARQL: Querying and Updating with SPARQL 1.1, 2nd ed., 47–102. Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media, 2013. PDF.

   14,100 words

To read before this meeting:

1. Verborgh, Ruben, and Seth van Hooland. “Cleaning.” In Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata, 71–108. Facet Publishing, 2014. PDF.

To read before this meeting:

1. Free Your Metadata. Cleaning Metadata with Google Refine, n.d. http://freeyourmetadata.org/cleanup/.

To read before this meeting:

1. Kunze, John, and R. Rodgers. “The ARK Identifier Scheme.” IETF, April 5, 2013. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-ark-18.

To read before this meeting:

1. Barker, Elton, Rainer Simon, Leif Isaksen, and Pau de Soto Cañamares. “The Pleiades Gazetteer and the Pelagios Project.” In Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2016. http://oro.open.ac.uk/48328/.

To read before this meeting:

1. Verborgh, Ruben, and Seth van Hooland. “Reconciling.” In Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata, 109–158. Facet Publishing, 2014. PDF.

To read before this meeting:

1. Verborgh, Ruben, and Seth van Hooland. “Publishing.” In Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata, 197–241. Facet Publishing, 2014. PDF.

To read before this meeting:

1. Galloway, Alexander R. “Introduction.” In Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization, 4–12. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. PDF.
2. 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.

Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 4,500 words

To read before this meeting:

1. Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Surfing the Web.” In RESTful Web APIs, 1–16. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.

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2. Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “A Simple API.” In RESTful Web APIs, 17–28. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.

Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 4,900 words

To read before this meeting:

1. Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Resources and Representations.” In RESTful Web APIs, 29–43. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.

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To read before this meeting:

1. Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Hypermedia.” In RESTful Web APIs, 45–57. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.

To read before this meeting:

1. Richardson, Leonard, and Mike Amundsen. “Resource Description and Linked Data.” In RESTful Web APIs, 263–86. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2013. PDF.