Current Trends in Databases Introduction Bettina Berendt Erik

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

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

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

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

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

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

The topics • • • • Package A 1: The problem of integrating and exchanging data. -----------Package A 2: RDF and SPARQL: Fundamentals, practice and future -----------Package L 1 (ED): Linked Data -----------Package L 2 (BB): What happens to context in Linked Data? - A logics view Package L 3 (BB): What happens to context in Linked Data? - A societal and privacy view Package L 4 (BB): How can Linked Data be queried? -----------Package L 5 (SM): Harvesting and Querying Relational Data on the Web -----------Package A 3: 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/u 65 putqgd 7 xafrhn by Friday 19 th Feb. ; we will work out a solution; order of filling in will be taken into consideration Cross-site work strongly encouraged

“Howto“s • We recommend the excellent book Zobel, J. (2004). Writing for Computer Science. Springer. 2 nd 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

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. huberlin. de/lehre/2004 s/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: “copresenter“ role) – http: //www. cs. kuleuven. be/~berendt/teaching/2009 -102 ndsemester/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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