Seminar Informationsmanagement

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Seminar Informationsmanagement

• Prof. Dr. Erich Neuhold
• Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Publikations und
  Informationssysteme
• Sommersemester 2003

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Vorgehensweise und Organisation

• Erwartete Leistungen
• Einarbeitung in die angegebene Literatur
• Finden und Einarbeiten in weiterführende
  Literatur
• Schriftliche Ausarbeitung zum Thema (Umfang ca. 5
  Seiten pro Teilnehmer)
• Präsentation zum Thema (Umfang 15 min. pro
  Teilnehmer)
• Termine
• 2 Vorbesprechungen (Temine nach Vereinbarung)
• Schriftliche Ausarbeitung spätestens bis zum 28.
  Mai 2003
• Vorstellung der Seminarergebniss 5. Juni 2003

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Struktur

• Part I XML-based Information Management
• Part II Representing, Managing, and Processing
  Knowledge
• Part III Bringing the User into the Loop

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Part I XML-based Information Management
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Storing XML in Relational Databases

• Subjects
• Comparison of different approaches for storing
  XML in relational databases
• Background Material
• Ronald Bourret XML Database Products See
  http//www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDatabaseProds.htm
  (Oracle 8i, 9i, Access 2000, DB2(IBM), ...)
• Wassilios Kazakos, Andreas Schmidt, Peter
  Tomczyk Datenbanken und XML. Konzepte,
  Anwendungen, Systeme 2002
• Expected Results
• Overview of the possibilities how to store XML in
  relational databases
• Advantages and disadvantages in opposite to
  storing XML in native XML databases

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Native Storage of XML

• Subjects
• Comparison of native storage mechanisms for XML
• Background Material
• Ronald Bourret XML Database Products See
  http//www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDatabaseProds.htm
  (Tamino, Infonyte DB, Xindice, Natix,...)
• Wassilios Kazakos, Andreas Schmidt, Peter
  Tomczyk Datenbanken und XML. Konzepte,
  Anwendungen, Systeme 2002
• Expected Results
• Overview of existing native storage mechanisms
• Description about the differences between the
  native storage approaches
• Advantages and disadvantages in opposite to
  storing XML in relational databases

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Querying XML

• Subjects
• Querying XML (semi-structured data) vs. querying
  structured data
• Comparison of existing query languages for XML
  (XPath, XQuery, XQL, SQLX, ...)
• Background Material
• Serge Abiteboul, Querying Semi-Structured Data
  1997
• Mary Fern, XML Query Languages Experiences and
  Exemplars 1999
• World Wide Web Consortium, XQuery 1.0 A Query
  Language for XML. See http//www.w3.org/TR/xquery/
  .
• Expected Results
• Problem statement for querying XML in opposite to
  querying structured data
• Overview about different XML query languages and
  the differences between the underlying methodology

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Part II Representing, Managing, and Processing
Knowledge
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Information, Knowledge and Knowledge Management

• Subjects
• Information vs. Knowledge
• Knowledge Types Knowledge Lifecycle
• Knowledge Management
• Background Material
• I. Spielger, Knowledge Management A new Idea or
  a recycled concept, CAIS, 3(14), June 2002
• I. Nonaka, H. Takeuchi. Die Organisation des
  Wissens Wie japanische Unternehmen eine
  brachliegende Ressource nutzbar machen, Campus
  Verlag, 1997.
• U. Borghoff, R. Pareschi. Information Technology
  for Knowledge Management, 1998 (Kapitel 1,2)
• G. Fischer, J. Ostwald. Knowledge Management
  Problems, Promises, Realities, and Challenges,
  IEEE Intelligent Systems 1094-7167/01/ 2001
• F. Nichols. The knowledge in knowledge
  management. (2000) available at
  http//home.att.net/nickols/Knowledge_in_KM.htm
• Expected Results
• Explanation of the concept of knowledge and its
  relationship with information
• Differentiation between types of knowledge and
  transitions between them
• Summary of the main challenges and possible
  applications of knowledge management

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Understanding Ontologies for Advanced Information
and Knowledge Management

• Subjects
• Foundations of ontologies
• Ontologies for knowledge representation
• Ontology definition and modelling
• Background Material
• J. F. Sowa. Knowledge Representation - Logical,
  Philosophical and Computational Foundations,
  Brooks/Cole, 2000 (Chapter 1 2)
• T. R. Gruber, Toward principles for the design of
  ontologies used for knowledge sharing,
  International Journal of Human-Computer Studies,
  v.43 n.5-6, p.907-928, Nov./Dec. 1995
• B. Chandrasekaran, R. Josephson, and R.
  Benjamins. What Are Ontologies, and Why Do We
  Need Them? IEEE Intelligent Systems,
  14(1)20--26, January 1999
• N. Guarino, Formal ontologies and information
  systems. N. Guarino, (ed.). Proceedings of
  FOIS'98, IOS Press, 1998
• Expected Results
• Explanation of the concept of ontologies and
  their role for semantic annotation of information
• Discussion of the application of ontologies in
  information and knowledge management

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Representing and Managing Ontologies within
Advanced Information and Knowledge Technologies

• Subjects
• Standards and Ontology Languages (RDF, OWL,
  DAMLOIL)
• Ontology Management Tools
• Background Material
• F. Manola and E. Miller. W3C, RDF Primer, W3C
  Working Draft 23 January 2003, http//www.w3.org/T
  R/rdf-primer/
• M. K. Smith, D. McGuinness, R. Volz and C. Welty.
  Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide Version 1.0,
  W3C Working Draft 4 November 2002,
  http//www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/
• D. Connolly, F. van Harmelen, I. Horrocks, D. L.
  McGuinness, P. F. Patel-Schneider, and L. A.
  Stein. DAMLOIL (March 2001) Reference
  Description, W3C Note 18 December 2001,
  http//www.w3.org/TR/damloil-reference
• N. F. Noy and D. L. McGuinness. Ontology
  Development 101 - Stanford University, available
  at http//protege.stanford.edu/publications/ontolo
  gy_development/ontology101.pdf
• Expected Results
• Overview over the standards for ontology
  representation and semantic annotation in the
  context of the Semantic Web Activity
• Summary of tools and services for ontology
  definition and management

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Part III Bringing the User into the Loop
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Personalization and User profiling

• Subjects
• User Modeling and User Profiling
• Collecting data for user profiles (e.g. User
  Tracking)
• Personalization and other applications of user
  profiling
• Background Material
• Alfred Kobsa, Generic User Modeling Systems,
  User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction,
  Volume 11, 49-63 2001
• Alexander Pretschner and Susan Gauch.
  Personalization on the Web. Technical Report,
  ITTC-FY2000-TR-13591-01, The University of
  Kansas, Lawrence, KS, December 1999.
• I. Barry Crabtree and Stuart J. Soltysiak.
  Identifying and Tracking Changing Interests,
  International Journal on Digital Libraries,
  2(1)38-53, 1998.
• Fink, J. and A. Kobsa, A Review and Analysis of
  Commercial User Modeling Servers for
  Personalization on the World Wide Web. User
  Modeling and User Adapted Interaction 10(2-3)209
  249, 2000
• Expected Results
• Overview over the area of personalization based
  on user profiling and its role in information
  management
• Categorization of approaches for user modeling
  and methods for collecting data for user profiles
• Collection of applications of user profiling and
  personalization

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Community Services

• Subject
• Services and mechanisms supporting community
  building and community involvement, e.g. Social
  Filtering Recommender Systems, Expert
  Brokering, Collaborative Annotation, Knowledge
  Pump
• Background Material
• E. Wenger. Communities of Practice. Learning as a
  Social System. Published in the "Systems
  Thinker," June 1998. Available at
  http//www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/ls
  s.shtml
• R. Burke. Hybrid Recommender Systems Survey and
  Experiments,User Modeling and User-Adapted
  Interaction 12(4), November 2002
• V. Bouthors and O. Dedieu. Pharos, a
  Collaborative Infrastructure for Web Knowledge
  Sharing. In Proceedings of the ECDL'99, Paris,
  France, September 1999, Springer-Verlag, 1999.
• R. Müller, C. Niederée, and J. W. Schmidt. Design
  Principles for Internet Community Information
  Gateways MARINFO - A Case Study for a Maritime
  Information Infrastructure. In Proceedings of
  COMPIT 2000, pages 302-322, April 2000.
• H. Brocks, A. Stein, U. Thiel, I. Frommholz and
  A. Dirsch-Weigand, How to incorporate
  Collaborative Discourse in Cultural Digital
  Libraries Proceedings of the ECAI 2002, July 2002
• U. Borghoff, R. Pareschi, Information Technology
  for Knowledge Management, 1998 (Kapitel 3)
• Expected Results
• Explanation of the Role of Communities in
  Information/Knowledge Management
• Overview of community services and their role for
  communities
• More detailed explanation of recommender systems
  and social filtering as an example community
  service