INFO 287-11
SEMINAR IN INFORMATION SCIENCE
TOPIC: LINKED DATA (2 UNITS)
SUMMER 2018 SYLLABUS

Dr. Lei Zhang
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Office Hours: Email or Zoom by appointment 

Canvas Information: Courses will be available beginning June 4th, 6 am PT unless you are taking an intensive or a one-unit or two-unit class that starts on a different day. In that case, the class will open on the first day that the class meets. This 2-unit course runs for 8 weeks: June 18-August 10. The Canvas site will open June 18.

You will be enrolled in the Canvas site automatically.

Course Description

Principles and applications of linked data for organizing, managing, and sharing information in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. Covers the linked data vocabularies, standards, and approaches, including RDF (Resource Description Framework), OWL (Web Ontology Language), SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language), BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework Initiative), Schema.org and SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System). 

Course Requirements

Assignments 

• Assignment 1: RDF (15%) (Supports CLO#1)
• Assignment 2: OWL (20%) (Supports CLO#1, CLO#2)
• Assignment 3: SKOS (15%) (Supports CLO#2, CLO#3, CLO#4)
• Assignment 4: BIBFRAME (20%) (Supports CLO#2, CLO#3, CLO#4)
• Paper: Use case study (25%) (Supports CLO#3, CLO#4, CLO#5)
• Discussion and participation (5%) (Supports CLO#4, CLO#5)        

All assignments are due by 11:59 pm Pacific Time on the due date. Grades will be reduced for late work by ten percent per day late. Please contact the instructor prior to a deadline in cases of illness or emergency. 

Course Calendar

A course week starts on Monday at 12:00 am Pacific Time and ends the following Sunday at 11:59 pm Pacific Time (except last week). 

Readings and Resources

Book chapters, articles, and websites are provided in Canvas.

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Course Workload Expectations

Success in this course is based on the expectation that students will spend, for each unit of credit, a minimum of forty-five hours over the length of the course (normally 3 hours per unit per week with 1 of the hours used for lecture) for instruction or preparation/studying or course related activities including but not limited to internships, labs, clinical practica. Other course structures will have equivalent workload expectations as described in the syllabus.

Instructional time may include but is not limited to:
Working on posted modules or lessons prepared by the instructor; discussion forum interactions with the instructor and/or other students; making presentations and getting feedback from the instructor; attending office hours or other synchronous sessions with the instructor.

Student time outside of class:
In any seven-day period, a student is expected to be academically engaged through submitting an academic assignment; taking an exam or an interactive tutorial, or computer-assisted instruction; building websites, blogs, databases, social media presentations; attending a study group;contributing to an academic online discussion; writing papers; reading articles; conducting research; engaging in small group work.

Course Prerequisites

INFO 287 has no prequisite requirements.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. Interpret the RDF data model and serialization syntaxes.
2. Apply the Linked Data technologies such as RDF, OWL and SPARQL with the use of tools.
3. Examine the practices of Linked Data in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions such as BIBFRAME, Schema.org and SKOS.
4. Explain the vocabularies, standards and approaches related to Linked Data in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions.
5. Discuss major issues, current developments and future trends in Linked Data.

Core Competencies (Program Learning Outcomes)

INFO 287 supports the following core competencies:

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Textbooks

Recommended Textbooks:

• Jones, E., & Seikel, M. (2016). Linked data for cultural heritage. ALA Editions. Available through Amazon: 083891439X

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Grading Scale

The standard SJSU School of Information Grading Scale is utilized for all iSchool courses:

In order to provide consistent guidelines for assessment for graduate level work in the School, these terms are applied to letter grades:

• C represents Adequate work; a grade of "C" counts for credit for the course;
• B represents Good work; a grade of "B" clearly meets the standards for graduate level work or undergraduate (for BS-ISDA);
  For core courses in the MLIS program (not MARA, Informatics, BS-ISDA) — INFO 200, INFO 202, INFO 204 — the iSchool requires that students earn a B in the course. If the grade is less than B (B- or lower) after the first attempt you will be placed on administrative probation. You must repeat the class if you wish to stay in the program. If - on the second attempt - you do not pass the class with a grade of B or better (not B- but B) you will be disqualified.
  
• A represents Exceptional work; a grade of "A" will be assigned for outstanding work only.

Graduate Students are advised that it is their responsibility to maintain a 3.0 Grade Point Average (GPA). Undergraduates must maintain a 2.0 Grade Point Average (GPA).

University Policies

Per University Policy S16-9, university-wide policy information relevant to all courses, such as academic integrity, accommodations, etc. will be available on Office of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs' Syllabus Information web page at: https://www.sjsu.edu/curriculum/courses/syllabus-info.php. Make sure to visit this page, review and be familiar with these university policies and resources.

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