Undergraduate Course: Querying and Storing XML (INFR11103)
Course Outline
| School | School of Informatics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Informatics |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://course.inf.ed.ac.uk/qsx/ |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | XML is the prime standard for data exchange on the Web. This course is to expose students to research and development issues in connection with storing XML data in a traditional database, for publishing data from databases in XML, and for querying and managing XML data by using a traditional database management system. In addition, we will cover topics in querying social networks (graph-structured data), an important emerging area.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is open to all Informatics students including those on joint degrees. For external students where this course is not listed in your DPT, please seek special permission from the course organiser. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| 1 - This course is to expose students to current research and development issues for storing and querying XML data via traditional database systems, and for publishing and integrating data from traditional databases in XML. Many of the topics covered are, or will be, in demand. The purpose is to prepare students for both graduate study and job market. |
Assessment Information
Complete an individual project and review 4 research papers.
You should expect to spend approximately 60 hours on the coursework for this course.
If delivered in semester 1, this course will have an option for semester 1 only visiting undergraduate students, providing assessment prior to the end of the calendar year. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
*XML basics: XML standard, DTD, XML Schema, query languages (XPath, XQuery, XSLT), and integrity constraints for XML.
*XML shredding: storing XML data in a relational database, constraint propagation from XML to relations, and normalization of relational schema for storing XML data.
*XML publishing: XML views of relational data, and schema-directed publishing.
*Querying XML data stored in relations: query translation from XPath to SQL.
*Managing XML data stored in relations: incremental XML updates, XML view updates, and XML updates.
*Query languages for graph-structured data.
*Querying social networks: graph pattern matching for social network analysis. |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Please see the course page |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Wenfei Fan
Tel: (0131 6)51 3818
Email: wenfei@inf.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Claire Edminson
Tel: (0131 6)51 7607
Email: C.Edminson@ed.ac.uk |
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