Informatics

Informatics 3: Content Management

Contemporary online services, such as social networking and multimedia sharing sites, massively multiplayer online games, as well as commerce services are built on content management systems and underlying databases. In this subject, students will learn how to build their own domain-specific content management system, combining web technologies with database technologies.

Topics include: collection, modelling and retrieval of information in databases; query languages including SQL; integration of databases with websites; web interfaces; data interchange using XML; transactions; and a selection of advanced topics in data management.