COMP30311 - Advanced Databases
Additional Course Information (2009)
Past exam papers
Past exam papers are available here.Feedback from previous exams is available here.
Questions from Students about the Exam.
Information about Examination is here.
Lecture Materials
- Introduction (1 Lecture)
- Programming Relational Databases (4 Lectures, 2 Tutorial Sessions).
- Object Databases (3 Lectures, 1 Tutorial Session).
- Semistructured Data Management (4 Lectures, 1 Tutorial Session).
- Multimedia Data Management (4 Lectures, 2 Lab/tutorial sessions)
- Slides - Part 1: Introduction to Multimedia DBs
- Slides - Part 2: Unstructured data management (text processing)
- Slides - Part 3: Web and multi-media
- Tutorial Sheet.
- Tutorial Solution.
- Examples, materials, demos:
- Semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval
- Semantic annotation and search of cultural-heritage collections
- Semantic annotation for knowledge management
- DLESE view on controlled vocabularies
- GIFT - the GNU Image Finding Tool, online demo
- Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management (Viper)
- EMC Enterprise Content Management
- EMC Documentum Content Server
- Elsevier - case study
- Revision (week 12).
Oracle 10g Documentation
The same documentation is available from the Oracle website (but you need to register first, though it's free of charge to do so).Chapters that are identified as further reading in the handouts are identified above under Lecture Plan. Most of the chapters are available from the School's library in a printed version.