ECS289F-SQ06: Topics in Scientific Data Management

Logistics:

• Instructor: Bertram Ludaescher
• Date / Time / Location: Tuesdays + Thursdays: 1:40-3:00pm, 1062 Bainer Hall
• Office Hour: Tuesdays + Thursdays: 11am-noon, 3051 Kemper Hall
• Course Description

Assignments:

• [Assignment 1.pdf] (due 4/25)
  • Reference: A preliminary scheme for multihierarchical rock classification ..., L.C. Struik, M.B. Quat, P.H. Davenport, and A.V. Okulitch, GSC Pacific, Vancouver, 2002.
• [Assignment 2.pdf] (due 5/23)

Schedule, Handouts, References:

1. April 4+6
   • Tuesday: Introduction and Overview [1-overview.pdf]
     • Literature: Managing Scientific Data: From Data Integration to Scientific Workflows
   • Thursday: ... continued (from Tuesday)
2. April 11+13
   • Tuesday: Querying Relational Data [2-rel-fo.pdf]
   • Thursday: ... continued (from Tuesday) .. and Fire Alarm!
3. April 18+20
   • Tuesday: Introduction to Ontologies [3-ontologies.pdf]
   • Thursday: ... (continued)
4. April 25+27
   • Tuesday: Ontologies (still continued ...)
   • Thursday: Modeling "Dynamic Knowledge" / Biological Pathways [4-modal-logic.pdf]
5. May 2+4
   • Tuesday: Introduction to Scientific Workflows [5-intro-swf.pdf]
   • Thursday: Scientific Workflows (cont'd) and Propagation of Semantic Types [6-qlqp-sem-prop.pdf]
6. May 9+11
   • Tuesday: Semantic Constraints in Scientific Workflows (slides cont'd)
   • Thursday: Templates and Frames: Reorganizing Dataflow and Control-flow, [7-templates-frames.pdf]
7. May 16+18
   • Tuesday: Data Provenance I, [8-provenance.pdf]
   • Thursday:Data Provenance II, [9-provenance.pdf]
8. May 23+25
   • Tuesday: Archival, [10-archival.pdf]
   • Thursday: Dataflow Process Networks, [11-dataflow-process-networks.pdf]
9. May 30+June 1
   • Tuesday: ...
   • Thursday: ...
10. June 6+8
    • Tuesday: ...
    • Thursday: --- (instruction ends June 7)