Education

The other day I was asked if I would like to run a Java module for some Physics & Astronomy students.
I am so far from plain Java and that sort of thing now there was almost a cognitive dissonance.

But it did cause me to ponder on about what I would do for such a requirement, given a blank sheet.

For people whose discipline is not primarily technical, what would a syllabus look like around Linked Data as a focus, but also causing them to learn lots about how to just do stuff on computers?

How to use a Linked Data store service as schemaless storage:
bit of intro to triples as simply a primitive representation format;
scripting for data transformation into triples - Ruby, Python, PHP, awk or whatever;
scripting for http access for http put, delete to store;
simple store query for service access (over http get);
scripting for data post-processing, plus interaction with any data analytic tools;
scripting for presentation in html or through visualisation tools.

It would be interesting for scientists and, even more, social scientists, archeologists, etc (alongside their statistical package stuff or whatever).
I think it would be really exciting for them, and they would get a lot of skills on the way - and of course they would learn to access all this Open Data stuff, which is becoming so important.
I’m not sure they would go for it ;-)

Just some thoughts.
And does anyone knows of such modules, or even is teaching them?

Best
Hugh
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Received on Saturday, 12 July 2014 11:03:30 UTC