Professional course Linked, Open Data and the Internet of Things

Entry year: 2025/26
Course code: Z41000096
Application: University
Level: Professional/Short Course
School: School of Computing and Creative Technologies
Campus: Frenchay
Duration: Twenty sessions, scheduled over twenty-four weeks
Delivery: Through weekly lectures and tutorial sessions
Course Director: Dr Steve Battle

Introduction

This course can count towards one of our postgraduate qualifications within our Information Management and Information Technology Awards.

Accreditations and partnerships:

The creation of structured, semantically rich datasets is an important step towards better reuse and recombination of data from diverse sources. In addition to best practice in the creation of linked data, this module will introduce you to the tools and methods for querying linked data and for representing rich ontologies that help define data-rich domains. The module will look particularly at consumption and processing of data produced by networked sensors making up the Internet of Things.

Entry requirements

Participants are expected to have a first degree at 2.2 level or above (or equivalent), or alternatively have six-months of relevant industrial experience.

If you are a non-UK student you will need to show your passport on entry to the UK. Please check your eligibility to visit and study in the UK here. If you are a non-Irish EU national currently resident in Ireland please contact us directly for further advice.

If English is not your country's first language, you will be required to provide evidence to show you meet the UK Border Agency and the University's minimum English Language requirements. Further details are available on our English Language Requirements webpage

We strongly recommend that you speak to the course tutor prior to the course if you are unsure about your suitability to complete the assessment.

Careers / Further study

This module can be taken as a standalone module, or used to build up credit towards a named postgraduate qualification (PG Certificate, PG Diploma or Masters) within our Information Management and Information Technology awards

Structure

Content

This module will cover the following topic areas:

Introduction: The open data movement, the role of linked data, origins.
Ontology: Ontology as a shared model of objects, their properties and relationships in a domain, OWL (Web Ontology Language), description logic, meta-models, re-use, relationship to vocabulary, taxonomy.
Semantic models: Metadata, URIs and URLs as the foundation of the semantic web, RDF (Resource Description Framework), creating a dataset based on the domain ontology, RDF serializations including Turtle, named graphs.
Querying Semantic Data: The SPARQL query language (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language, pronounced "sparkle"), SPARQL endpoints.
Publishing Linked Data: Publishing models on the web, Open Linked Data, Enterprise Linked Data.
Consuming and Visualising linked data: Web-based Javascript clients, JSON-LD, D3 visualization.
Internet of Things: Consuming and visualizing IoT sensor node data.
Open or Closed? Understanding the challenges of open versus closed data on the Internet of Things.

Learning and Teaching

The module is delivered through weekly lectures, tutorial sessions and demonstration, which take place on consecutive weeks.

Independent learning includes hours engaged with essential and further reading, assignment preparation and completion.

Study time

This module (course) will involve 2 hours direct contact time per week for one semester equally divided between lecture and tutorial sessions.

A 15 credit module, like this one, is expected to take 150 hours to complete:

24 hrs contact time through lectures and face to face discussion
30 hrs coursework preparation
86 hrs assimilation and development of knowledge
10 hrs exam preparation

Assessment

Assessment will be through a coursework/practical project and a written exam.

For more details, see our full glossary of assessment terms.

Features

Professional accreditation

This module is accredited by the Chartered Institute for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals.

Study facilities

The University has excellent facilities, accessible to all students, as required; however, it is expected that much of the work will be carried within the work environment.

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Prices and dates

Supplementary fee information

Course dates

This course is planned to run again in 2025. Course dates, updated fees and online booking forms will be published here in the summer of 2024. Please complete our online enquiry form below to be notified once these details are made available.

Cohort February 2025	Time	Location
Twenty sessions, scheduled over twenty-four weeks	TBC	Frenchay Campus

Course fees

All prices are VAT exempt

Cohort	February 2025
UK participants	£792.00*
International participants	£1,333.00*

*Fees displayed are based on 2023/24 entry and are an indication only. Please note there might be a small increase for 2024/25. Please complete our online enquiry form below to be notified once these details are made available.

For information on fees, managing your money and determining your fee status, please go to our fees and funding pages.

Course location

UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY

How to find UWE Bristol

How to apply

As this module carries university accreditation, please note that once you have submitted your booking form, you will be required to provide the following supporting information for the Tutor to be able to review and formally accept your application as required by the university:

An up-to-date copy of your Curriculum Vitae (including contact details of a work or academic reference)
A brief personal statement to support your application
A copy of your highest qualification certificate and transcript of modules studied
A copy of photographic proof of ID (i.e. driver's licence/passport). For non UK students, this must be a copy of your passport

Cohort
February 2025		Enquire Now

For further information

Email: Please contact us using the online enquiry form link above.
Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 81043 (option 1, then option 3)