Current Trends in Databases - Introduction -

1. Current Trends in Databases- Introduction - Bettina Berendt, Erik Duval, Marie-Francine Moens 10 February 2010

2. What is this? • „Learning how to do science“ • Content • Searching + Reading + integrating + assessing different original papers • State-of-the-art in selected topics in DB ~ „Capita selecta“ • Process • Reading + writing • Presenting + interacting

3. Who are we? • Bettina Berendt, KUL • Álvaro Cortes-Calabuig, UA • Boris Cule, UA • Erik Duval, KUL • Marie-Francine Moens, KUL

4. Where to find information, materials, communication • Toledo • And (linked also there) • http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~berendt/teaching/2009-10-2ndsemester/ctdb/

5. How does this course work? • Four+x sessions during the semester • Introduction to the course (This session!) • Mini conferences: Presentation and discussion of topics in the two fields/themes: • Monday 15 March • Friday 7 May • Each topic 2*; each topic has presenter + co-presenter • Wrap-up (local): if needed, towards end of semester • Auxiliary (local): between the „main“ meetings • Written reports: end of semester

6. The themes • Information and Databases Integration • (U Antwerp) • The Web as a database • (KU Leuven)

7. The topics • Package A1: The problem of integrating and exchanging data. • ---------------------- • Package A2: RDF and SPARQL: Fundamentals, practice and future • ---------------------- • Package L1 (ED): Linked Data • ---------------------- • Package L2 (BB): What happens to context in Linked Data? - A logics view • Package L3 (BB): What happens to context in Linked Data? - A societal and privacy view • Package L4 (BB): How can Linked Data be queried? • ---------------------- • Package L5 (SM): Harvesting and Querying Relational Data on the Web • ---------------------- • Package A3: Inconsistency and incompleteness in semistructured information •  8 packages for (expected) 9 students; for some packages, >1 possible •  please cast >= 3 votes on http://www.doodle.com/u65putqgd7xafrhn by Friday 19th Feb.; we will work out a solution; order of filling in will be taken into consideration • Cross-site work strongly encouraged

8. “Howto“s • We recommend the excellent book Zobel, J. (2004). Writing for Computer Science. Springer. 2nd edition. www.justinzobel.com • In addition, we have hints on • how you can / should approach your „presenter-role“ task • how you should review other‘s work ( refereeing, here: “co-presenter“ role) • how we will evaluate your work

9. B. Berendt‘s “Howto“s on • Approaching the presenter role • reading (selecting sources) http://vasarely.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/lehre/General/scientific_writing.html • reading (already selected sources) – from Zobel http://vasarely.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/lehre/2004s/kaw/Working_with_scientific_literature.html • writing: http://vasarely.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/lehre/General/guidelines.html • how you should review other‘s work ( refereeing, here: “co-presenter“ role) • http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~berendt/teaching/2009-10-2ndsemester/ctdb/co-presenters.html • refereeing other work– from Zobel Chapter 10 on Refereeing (photocopies linked in Toledo) • giving feedback on oral presentations http://vasarely.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/lehre/feedback_agents.html • how I will evaluate your work • see “writing“ above (PS: Please ignore the concrete tasks on these pages, these do not apply here)

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