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• Advanced Bachelor or Master/Diploma in Applied Computer Science or Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik)
• Prerequisites/Vorbedingungen: Semistructured Data and XML
• 6 ECTS
• Number of participants: max. 16-20 (about 8-10 talks of 2 persons)
• Language: German and english are allowed. Reading of english text/documentation is required.

Time Schedule

• first meeting at the beginning of the semester:
  Monday 29.10. 14h c.t. SR 2.101, IFI: First Meeting
• Oct/Nov: preparation of case studies and presentations, individual meetings
• Dec/Jan: presentations.
  Prospectively, there will either be two presentations per week, or the seminar takes place in conference style on two/three days.

Contents

As a Meta-Language, XML provides the base for a lot of "instances", that are specific (markup) languages. Examples of those are XHTML (as a hypertext markup language), XSLT (as a markup for a rule-based programming language), XQueryX (as an XML syntax of XQuery) and RDF/XML (to provide RDF data in the (Semantic) Web); in contrast to ad hoc XML markups for certain domains like the Mondial XML instance. In this seminar, some XML-based markup languages will be discussed in detail:

• Apache Ant, the XMLized make tool
• MathML, with TeX4ht
• XSL-FO and Apache FOP (wurde in der Vorlesung kurz behandelt)
• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics and SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
• X3D - Extensible 3D
• GML - Geography Markup Language that is used in GIS systems, KML - Keyhole Markup Language (for google maps), GPX - GPS Exchange Format
• MPEG-7 metadata for multimedia contents (application to recorded/teleteaching?)
• ATOM: a proposal for enhancing RSS and remote content management.
• BPEL - Business Process Execution Language; XPDL - XML Process Definition Language; this talk should also include BPMN.
• WSMO/WSML - Web Service Modeling Language/Ontology
• further proposals (e.g. from the application areas of the AI studies) welcome ...

Form of the Seminar

The intention of the seminar is to get an overview of the languages and a feeling how to use them (note: the supervisors of the seminar have a good knowledge on XML, but not on the above specific languages - we are also interested to get some new knowledge). The outcome should be in a form that can have some influence e.g. on BSc/MSc Theses in the application areas of the studies (i.e., to convince people there to use up-to-date technology).

For each topic, the following has to be done:

• a written tutorial-style paper that gives an overview of the language concepts and syntax (that has been tested with appropriate tools),
• evaluate some tools, write a report (installation, functionality, usability, ...) [optionally german or english]
• prepare an illustrative medium-size case study using one or more tools (optionally: comparatively)
• a presentation giving the tutorial and showing a demo of how to use it (about 90 minutes incl. discussion; optionally german or english).