Course unit
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LEFRANCOIS Maxime
General Description:
This lecture aims at understanding the data interoperability issues that arise from the integration of existing CPS application, or the evolution of CPS. The students will understand and use the main data formats, query languages, and schema definition languages. They will understand the importance of controlled vocabularies and ontologies, and the importance of relaxing data schemas to enable the injection of additional information in documents. The course combines theory and practice on the following topics:
- Generalities: data engineering and the data value chain, ISO/IEC definitions of interoperability, standards and standard-based interoperability
- Encoding base data types: character encoding, Computer number formats, Colors, Endianness, Base32 and Base64 encoding,
- Data formats: Generalities, file types, Delimiter separated values, Extensible Markup Language, JavaScript Object Notation, YAML Ain't Markup Language, Lightweight markup languages, Compressed formats, Multimedia formats
- Data schemas and semantics: XML Schema, JSON Schema, Heterogeneities and data conflicts, Controlled vocabularies and ontologies, Resource Description Framework, RDFa: Rich structured data markup for web documents, JSON-LD: JSON for Linking Data, Data integration and mediation
This teaching unit counts for 2 credits (/30 total for a semester).
Key words:
Interoperability
data formats
semantics
Number of teaching hours
20
Fields of study
Computer Science, Information Systems
Teaching language
English
Intended learning outcomes
| On completion of the unit, the student will be capable of: |
Classification level |
Priority |
| Know the main data formats |
1. Knowledge |
Essential |
| Understand and use the different datatypes |
3. Apply |
Important |
| Know how to use the data query languages for the main data formats |
3. Apply |
Important |
| Know how to use the data schema description language |
3. Apply |
Important |
| Understand the importance of using standardized vocabularies |
5. Summarise |
Useful |
Learning assessment methods
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Percentage ratio of group assessment
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Written exam:
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50
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Project submission:
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Individual oral exam:
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Group presentation:
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Individual presentation:
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Group practical exercise:
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Individual practical exercise:
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Group report:
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Individual report:
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50
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Programme and content
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Content, sequencing and organisation |