DIGITAL LAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
PIATTAFORME DIGITALI PER LA GESTIONE DEL TERRITORIO
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| 2022/2023 | 6 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Chiara Contoli | Thursday, 14:00–16:00 upon appointment |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course is aimed at providing theoretical foundations and practical knowledge about digital platforms, among which the Internet and the Web, economical and social mechanisms they are based on and modern technologies that can be used to provide digital services (Web services, APIs, etc.), while also giving an overview of digital land management, with the deep understanding of the key issues, enabling technologies, and the criteria to be adopted in designing and implementing suitable solutions.
Program
01 Introduction
01.01 Definitions
01.02 Platform concept and history
01.03 Platform economics
01.04 Platform mechanics
02 Elements
02.01 Dimensions: space, time, information
02.02 Elements: territory, people, objects, processes, and quantities
03 Infrastructure
03.01 Internet: history, principles, structure, and protocols
03.02 Physical reality: tags, smart objects, sensors, IoT
03.03 The Web: history, principles, protocols, and standards
04 Interfaces
04.01 Code interfaces: binary encoding, API, and ABI
04.02 Inter-process interfaces: file descriptors, pipes, sockets
04.03 Inter-host interfaces: remote APIs, web services
04.04 Authentication and security principles
05 Encoding
05.01 Definition and concept
05.02 Text encoding, ASCII, Unicode
05.03 CSV, XML, JSON, and other standard formats
06 Copyleft: sharing and reuse
06.01 Open Source, Open Hardware
06.02 Crowd Sourcing
06.03 Open Data
07 Practice
07.01 Git and Github
07.02 Web interfaces and protocols
07.03 HTTP client and server
07.04 Web platform APIs: Telegram bots
08 Individual assignment
08.01 Design and implementation of a Web service
Bridging Courses
There are no mandatory prerequisites.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding: Students must demonstrate to know the role, functioning, and integration issues of the key elements of a digital platform for land management.
Applying knowledge and understanding: Students must demonstrate a deep understanding of the concepts and issues related to digital land management. They must demonstrate the capability of exploiting their knowledge and comprehension of the topics of the course to conduct a critical analysis of the application scenarios and to design and adopt the most suitable solutions.
Making judgments: Students will be able to design and document simple Web services based on RESTFull technology and OpenData, leveraging modern tools for software development.
Communication skills: Students will be able to appropriately express base concepts and terminology of Web services; they will be also able to describe and present a use case study of interest by explaining the design and solution strategy.
Learning skills: Students will be able to acquire basic concepts and principles of operation of the most important digital platforms.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures, hands-on activities, and final assignment (individual).
- Attendance
Course attendance is recommended, but not mandatory.
- Course books
Lecture notes and handouts provided by the instructor.
Additional readings:
Choudary, Van Alstyne, Parker, Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—And How to Make Them Work for You, 2016
Michele Vianello, "Smart Citizen, Istituzioni e Politica", dal "Potere dello zapping" al "Diritto all'interlocuzione", 2016
- Assessment
Individual project, presentation, and individual oral discussion.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Theory lectures and laboratory exercises, both face-to-face and on-line.
- Attendance
Course attendance is recommended, but not mandatory.
- Course books
Lecture notes and handouts provided by the instructor.
Additional readings:
Choudary, Van Alstyne, Parker, Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—And How to Make Them Work for You, 2016
Michele Vianello, "Smart Citizen, Istituzioni e Politica", dal "Potere dello zapping" al "Diritto all'interlocuzione", 2016
- Assessment
Same as for attending students.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Notes
The course is offered face-to-face.
The student can request to sit the final exam in English with an alternative bibliography.
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