Web-Enabling Environmental Inventory Systems (3 credits)

Course Overview

• Course Objectives
• Motivation
• Job Possibilities
• Course Requirements
• Course Web Support
• Environmental Data 101
• Web versus Internet
• Client versus Server

• Read the Welcome to Class document on-line: http://www.cev.washington.edu/lc/CLWEBINV/wel2006.html
• Review the System Architecture Diagram on-line
• Start Reading Chapters 1 through 6 of HTML 4 For the World Wide Web (you can just skim chapter 5)
• Familiarize yourself with the class Web page at http://www.prism.washington.edu/education/courses/prism-498a.html (click on all links)

Diving into the Web Opportunity:

• The Class Project
• Scripting versus Programming versus Languages
• Versions of HTML (2.0, 3.2, 4.0) and XHTML
• Cascading Style Sheets
• DHTML
• XML
• The PRISM Project - Virtual Puget Sound

• Read the Project 1 Instructions document on-line.
• Read the Soil Network PDF article on-line.
• Continue Reading Chapters 1-6 of HTML 4 For the World Wide Web (you can just skim chapter 5).
• Begin your interactive exploration of HTML (or XHTML) using the book examples and pages you find on-line.
• Investigate the examples from previous years' projects (from links on last year's Home Page)

HTML Boot Camp

• Let's Do Some Basic HTML
• Software for Creating Web Pages:
  • Browser
  • Text Editor
  • HTML Editor
  • (Go Live, Front Page, Dream Weaver)
• The Standard Setting Organization:
  • The World Wide Web Consortium (w3.org)
• Vocabulary
  • URL
  • TCP/IP

• Continue interacting with chapters 1-6 of our HTML 4 book and use the Web to find more information on the topics to the left.

Course Project Discussion

• Web-Enabling Client Presentations
• PRISM Project Environmental Data Sets
• The Center for Environmental Visualization

• Practice by doing chapters 1-6 of the HTML 4 book and use the Web to find more information on any HTML topic of interest.

HTML Boot Camp in MGH 044

• Links and Images
• Forms
• Questions Regarding Your Attempts at HTML
• Table Layout
• Area Maps
• Advanced Spacing and Padding
• Cascading Style Sheets

• Edition 4 of HTML Book: Read Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
• Edition 5 of HTML Book: Read Chapters 7, 13, 14, 15, 16

XHTML Boot Camp in MGH 044

• Introduction to XHTML as an XML encoding of HTML
• Clarity on the self-directed method and its applicability to the information age - how well do you do?
• Frame sets

• Study the on-line document outlining your project work responsibilities
• Practice your HTML or XHTML skills in regards to the project goals

HTML/XHTML Examples

• XHTML Validation
• Question and Answer session on HTML and XHTML
• XML Syntax, Rules, and DTDs
• Lightning Strike Markup Language

• Edition 4 of HTML Book: Read Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16
• Edition 5 of HTML Book: Read Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11
• Practice your HTML or XHTML skills in regards to the project goals

• XML Schema, XSLT Style Sheets
• XML Databases, WSDL and SOAP Messaging
• In-class Discussion

• Dive into XML Readings
• Investigate the lightning strike case study on-line

• Environmental Data Meta Data Standards
• Project 2 Discussion
• Project 2 Groups Assigned
• Introduction to the Data Stream

• Project 1 Due Saturday Night 11:59PM
• Prepare to Turn in a link to your Project 1 (or e-mail content to me)
• Review chapters 1-4 in XML Readings

• Required Attendance Day
• Determining the Data Schema
• Relational Databases
• Database Modeling Exercise

• Review XML Readings
• Read about Project 2
• Project 1 Grading Comments

• XML Technologies Technical Review
  • Hands on XML, XML Schema, DTD, XSLT, XPath, XQuery

• Review chapters 5-12 in XML Readings

• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• SQL Keywords
• Examples of SQL
• Prepare for HTML/XHTML/XML Exam on Monday

• Investigate the Postgres SQL Web site
• Investigate the Postgres Tutorial

• XML, XML Schema, DTD, and XSLT questions
• HTML/XHTML/XML Exam

• Study Class Database Model
• Read the Dynamic Web Page Primer

• Dynamic Forms using SQL's INSERT INTO Command
• Dynamic Reports using SQL's SELECT Command
• Demonstrations using the Parts and Suppliers Database

• Study the project relational database schema and ask questions for clarity
• Explore http://www.cev.washington.edu/lc/CLWEBINV/sqlcommands.html

• CGI Explained
• Java Server Pages and PHP in Action

• Start the SQL Take-Home Exam

• Project 2 Due at 11:59 next Wednesday Night
• Web Services
• Introduction to Grid Comptuting (and Certificates)
• Introduction to Peer-to-Peer (and Advertisements)
• Project 3 Discussion

• Continue the SQL Take Home Exam
• Consider the Globus Toolkit Presentations
• Consider the power of the JXTA Peer to Peer architecture

• The Center for Environmental Visualization's (CEV) Information Services
• Using Tag Libraries to Hide Java Code

• Read about Java Standard Tag Libraries
• SQL Take-Home Exam Due in Class
• Final Projects Due on June 9th at 11:59pm PDT

• Review of Project 3 Requirements
• JSP Questions and Answers

• Java Standard Tag Libraries
• Final Projects Due on June 9th at 11:59pm PDT

• The Center for Environmental Visualization's Visualization Pipeline
• Review of Course Objectives

• Final Projects Due on June 9th at 11:59pm PDT