Graduate Course on Scientific Data Management (HT2015)

Scientific Data Management (HT2015)

Monday 26 October

Data models and data modelling, schemas, data independence, data and metadata.

Papers presenting the relational, entity-relationship and functional data models: Review papers that compare several semantic data models: Charles Bachman's 1973 ACM Turing Award lecture:

Tuesday 27 October

XML and JSON. Semantic Web, Resource Description Framework (RDF), RDF Schema (RDFS), SPARQL, ontologies and tools.

JSON and XML examples

The EBI RDF Platform

OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer (Second Edition)

Protégé ontology editor

Wednesday 28 October

Object-oriented databases. NoSQL databases (such as key-value databases, document databases, column-family stores, graph databases). The day will include presentations on representative NoSQL database management systems from some of Chalmers' Big Data application experts (Hans at 11:00, Oscar at 13:00, Camelia at 14:30).

Object-Oriented Database Systems

NoSQL Database Systems

Representative NoSQL systems:

Thursday 29 October

The main topic for the day will be data archiving.

We shall also look at federated systems.


Last Modified: 29 October 2015 by Graham Kemp