JavaScript and the DOM

A look at the HTML Document Object Model, and how JavaScript uses it to manipulate the contents of Web pages. Links are provided to DOM tutorials that give more detailed explanations.

JQuery: A JavaScript Library

JQuery is a JavaScript library that encourages the separation of content, behavior and presentation.

JavaScript and the DOM

A look at the HTML Document Object Model, and how JavaScript uses it to manipulate the contents of Web pages. Links are provided to DOM tutorials that give more detailed explanations.

JQuery, JSON & AJAX

The traditional web model requires each user interaction to trigger an HTTP client-server interaction that creates a new browser page. AJAX and other techniques allow the Web developer to interact with the server without the expense of recreating a new DOM.

COMP6218 Web Architecture - Web Content Formats

Plain Text - ASCII, Unicode, UTF-8 Content Formats - XML-based formats (RSS, MathML, SVG, Office) + PDF Text based data formats: CSV, JSON

Web Graph

Slides and an essay on the Web Graph, search engines and how Google calculates Page Rank

Social Networks and Small World phenomena

Social Networking tools like Facebook yield recognisable small world phenomena, that is particular kinds of social graphs that facilitate particular kinds of interaction and information exchange.

Process Lecture: Wikis and Coursework

These slides describe the use of a coursework wiki and the proposed information architecture to support the goals of the coursework.

Looking at the Web Science 2009 Conference

The first International Conference on Web Science is taking place in Athens, concurrently with this course. The material here will allow you to get familiar with the conference presentations and posters so that you can write a summary of the conference from a particular topical perspective. (Both the attached HTML summaries are currently in draft form and need to have the preview images and metadata checked.)

Les Carr explains the moral high ground on open educational resources

In this video, taken in front of the Parthenon at the Acropolis in Athens, Su White interviews Les Carr about why he asserts that there is a moral duty for teachers who create educational content to put that content in the public domain, rather than hoarding it in their institution.

OpenCL Lecture

Brief overview for the motivation and architecture of OpenCL

Mapping the Web and Web Science

This tutorial material introduces an activity in which the students are asked to redraw Tim Berners-Lee's map of the Web to include Web Science.

Who Invented the Web?

It is received wisdom that Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web; but there is a lot more technology and historical context that plays a part.

Study Skills: Precis and Argumentation

Society is catching up with the implications of the Web; its use is not straightforward and well-understood. Web Scientists will need to be able to handle arguments about equivocal perspectives on the Web's impact.

The Web Social

Sociology of the Internet and the Sociology of the Web