Week
|
Date
|
Topic
Reading and/or Assignment
|
1 |
2-Sep-04 |
Introduction to Scientific Databases; Goals of Course and Research Items.
Requirements of Scientific and
Statistical Databases.
Dr. Kerschberg's SDB Presentation to
the FBI
Knowledge Sifter Slide
and link to papers (see
Knowledge Management link on that page). Research Team Formation
and Topic Selection Korth and Silberschatz (KS) Chapter 1-4. Initial Research
Topic Selected |
2 |
9-Sep-04 |
Relational Data Model, Relational
Algebra and SQL Class Notes, (KS)
(Chapters 3 and 4) Conceptual Modeling
Class Notes, KS (Chapters 2 and 4)
Hand in title
and short abstract
Please send title, abstract, team member names and
e-mail to kersch@gmu.edu and
kborne@gmu.edu
|
3 |
16-Sep-04 |
XML, Semantic Web and
Ontology Construction in Protege.
Silberschatz
Chapter 10
Class Notes
Homework 1 Assigned
|
4 |
23-Sep-04 |
XML,
Data Integration and Mediation Technology Web Services
Initial Project Outline
and Scope Statement Due |
5 |
30-Sep-04 |
Bioinformatics and the Human
Genome
Dr. Curt Jamison, SCS
Homework
1 Due |
6 |
7-Oct-04 |
Data Integration in Bioinformatics
Dr. Jamison's Lecture
Page
Homework 2
Assigned |
7 |
14-Oct-04 |
Bio-Informatics Lecture by Dr. Jamison
Readings
|
8 |
21-Oct-04 |
|
9 |
28-Oct-03 |
Large Scale SSDBMS
Systems
The Earth Observing System Data and Information
System Architecture
Homework 2 Due. Detailed Project
Outline, Reference List Due |
10 |
28-Oct-04 |
Metadata, XML and Scientific Databases
Readings
Knowledge Network for
Biodiversity
MetaCat
Tutorial Statistical Databases and OLAP SDB
and OLAP Readings Page
|
11 |
4-Nov-04 |
Dr. Kirk Borne
Hubble Space Telescope Science Databases |
12 |
11-Nov-04 |
Guest
Speaker: Dr. Menas Kafatos
|
13 |
18-Nov-04 |
Dr. Kirk Borne
Virtual Observatories for Space Science |
| Final Paper Due,
Take Home Final Distributed!
|
14 |
25-Nov-04 |
Thanksgiving Recess, No Class |
15 |
2-Dec-04 |
Dr. Kirk Borne Intelligent Archives of the Future |
|
4-Dec-04 |
Scientific
Database Research Symposium
Saturday, December 4, 2004,
Enterprise Hall, Room TBD |
| 16 |
9-Dec-04 |
OLAP, Cubes and Federated Data Warehousing
Read Gray paper,
and Pederson papers
|
17 |
16-Dec-04 |
Take Home Final Exam Due |
