This course aims to enrich students with methodologies and techniques needed for gathering, storing, mining, analyzing, and providing access to data; to help them develop modern search engines, no-SQL databases, web information systems, and integrated services. The main topics that will be addressed in this course includes: (i) Tree data models: XML, XML Scheme and DTD, XML parsing, style sheets, XPath and XQuery; (ii) Graph data models and semantics: RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, graph databases and RDF stores; (iii) Data integration and retrieval scenarios: architectural solutions for the integration issues, schema-based integration, GAV and LAV integration, data fusion, web data mashups applications, data identity management, Data Web, Linked Data, RDFa, and social open-graphs, modern search engines, and indexing huge datasets.

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