MBIB4140 Metadata and Interoperability Course description

In order to take this course, the student must be familiar with the material covered in the bachelor¿s degree, such as HTML/CSS, databases and XML, as the course builds on this material.

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Knowledge

The student has

• specialised insight into key technical web standards
• specialised knowledge about API design and exploration
• extensive knowledge about fundamental and general principles of interoperability
• extensive knowledge about different ways of securing interoperability between metadata formats
• specialised knowledge about the scientific use of data

Skills

The student

•  is capable of working practically with data exchange and metadata conversion
•  is capable of developing simple ontologies
• has expertise in ordering technological solutions in order to develop information based services for the future that support interoperability
• is capable of participating in and holding responsibility for working with interoperability between different information systems 
• is capable of working practically with data in a data science context

In the course, technologies, standards and protocols, which form the basis for modern web-based information services, are studied. Important principles, methods and techniques that are used when developing web-based services and digital libraries are also examined, including:

• Knowledge of key technical web standards
• Web and service architecture
• Fundamental and general principles for interoperability
• Fundamental and general principles for data science
• Different ways of ensuring interoperability between metadata formats
• Knowledge of widely used protocols and standards that support interoperability between information systems

The course is organised as a weekly series of seminars. The students can attend the lectures on campus or follow them remotely online

The form of assessment is a semester paper. The semester paper can be written individually, in which case its scope shall be approx. 15 pages, or it can be written in groups of two or three students, in which case it shall have a scope of approx. 20 pages.

A grade scale with grades from A to E for pass and F for fail is used.

The exam papers are graded by one internal and one external examiner.