Note: This post is a work-in-progress! It’s currently more of a notes page and will be added to and rewritten over time. Watch this space!
A subtitle to this post could be ‘how does the web work? what does it look like?’.
Web Architecture</h3?
The web graph, web architecture, three-tiered architecture
– Client-side web programming: Javascript, AJAX
– Basic web protocols and technologies: HTTP, HTML, URI
– Key algorithms
– XML-based languages: XML, XSLT
– Server-side Web Programming: Java servlets, PHP
Standards
– Current data standards
— XML
— XSL
— XLink
— DOM
— SMIL
– Current metadata standards
— RDF
— RDF-SCHEMA
— Ontologies
— Dublin Core
Web information retrieval
– Search algorithms
– Page rank
– Search engines
– Link analysis
– Case studies: Harvest, Google, Inquirus
Principles
– Community inclusion
– Decentralisation
– Governance
– Openness and universality
– Incentives for innovation
Next: Web technologies – future
