Administrivia
202 Team
Email: is202-ta@sims.berkeley.edu
Professor Bob Glushko
Email: glushko@sims.berkeley.edu
Website: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~glushko/
Office number: (510) 643-2754
TA Kelly Snow
Email: ksnow@sims.berkeley.edu
TA Ben Hill
Email: bhill@sims.berkeley.edu
Course Information
Course Dates: August 30 to December 8, 2005
Lecture Schedule: Tuesday Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm in 202 South Hall
Units: 4
Grading Option: Letter Grade only
Course Texts
Required
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series), Arlene Taylor. 2004. ISBN: 1563089696
Available at the campus bookstore
Finding Out About, Richard Belew. 2001. ISBN: 020139829X
Reader
Available at Copy Central, Bancroft
Course Work
August 30 : Tuesday
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"The Library of Babel, from Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings" Jorge Luis Borges [Reader]
"Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Excerpt from Chapter 2, The Library of Mendel. pp. 107-111)" Daniel C. Dennett [Reader]
"Conduit Metaphor: A Case of Frame Conflict in our Langauge About Language (In Andrew Ortony (ed.), Metaphor and Thought) (skip "semantic pathology" from 176-184)" Michael Reddy [Reader]
"As We May Think" Vannevar Bush [Reader]
"Passive Capture and Ensuing Issues for a Personal Lifetime Store. (Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences CARPE ' 04)" Jim Gemmell, Lyndsay Williams, Ken Wood, Roger Lueder, and Gordon Bell [Reader]
"The Archivist (about Brewster Kahle and internet archive)" Paul Boutin [Reader]
Slate (April 2005)
Resources
September 1 : Thursday
[Sept 1] How to Think About Information
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 1, Chapter 3 (49-61) of The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series) [Textbook]
"How Much Information Executive Summary" Peter Lyman, Hal Varian, et al. [Reader]
"Data Modeling for Everyone (Chapter 1)" Sharon Allen [Reader]
Resources
September 6 : Tuesday
[Sept 6] Information Organization {and,or,vs} Search
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 1, Chapter 4 (105-109, 116-124) of Finding Out About [Textbook]
"User Interfaces and Visualization (in Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval [Section 10.3, The Information Access Process])" Marti Hearst [Reader]
"The design of browsing and berrypicking techniques for the online search interface [read 407-414 carefully, skim or skip the rest]" Marcia Bates [Reader]
Online Review, 13(5) (1989)
"Surf Like a Bushman" Rachel Chalmers [Reader]
New Scientist (11 November 2000)
"The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value (first few pages, up to Figure 2) " Michael Bergman [Reader]
Journal of Electronic Publishing (July 2001)
Resources
September 8 : Thursday
[Sept 8] Concepts and Categories
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"The Vocabulary Problem in Human-System Communication" George W. Furnas, Thomas K. Landauer, Louis M. Gomez, and Susan T. Dumais [Reader]
Communications of the ACM, 30(11), 964-971 (1987)
Chapter 11 (297-300) of The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series) [Textbook]
"Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. (preface through p 67)" George Lakoff [Reader]
Resources
September 13 : Tuesday
[Sept 13] Metadata and Metadata Standards
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 6, Chapter 7 (159-176), Chapter 8 (201-206, 220-224) of The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series) [Textbook]
"A bibliographic metadata infrastructure for the 21st century" Roy Tennant [Reader]
Resources
September 15 : Thursday
[Sept 15] Controlled Names and Controlled Vocabularies
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 9 (241-247), Chapter 10 (261-282) of The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series) [Textbook]
"What's in a name?" Brian Farish [Reader]
"What is a controlled vocabulary?" Karl Fast, Fred Liese, and Mike Steckel [Reader]
"Creating a controlled vocabulary" Karl Fast, Fred Liese, and Mike Steckel [Reader]
"Synonym rings and authority files" Karl Fast, Fred Liese, and Mike Steckel [Reader]
"Controlled vocabularies: A glosso-thesaurus" Karl Fast, Fred Liese, and Mike Steckel [Reader]
"W3C XML Schema Datatypes Reference" Rick Jelliffe [Reader]
Resources
September 20 : Tuesday
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 11 (301-311, 315-320) of The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series) [Textbook]
"How to make a faceted classification and put it on the web" William Denton [Reader]
"Faucet Facets: A few best practices for designing multifaceted navigation systems" Jeffrey Veen [Reader]
"Ontology is Overated: Categories, Links, and Tags" Clay Shirky [Reader]
Resources
September 22 : Thursday
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 10 (282-289) of The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series) [Textbook]
Chapter 6 (213-220) of Finding Out About [Textbook]
"Card Sorting" Jakob Nielsen [Reader]
"Rave Reviews: Acquiring Relevance Assessments from Multiple Users" Belew [Reader]
"Ontology 101" Natalya Noy and Deborah McGuinness [Reader]
"WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database - Introduction & Ch 1 (through at least page 34)" Christiane Felbaum and George Milller [Reader]
Resources
September 27 : Tuesday
September 29 : Thursday
[Sept 29] Metadata for Multimedia and Non-text Information
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"The Language of Images: Enhancing Access to Images by Applying Metadata Schemas and Structured Vocabularies. Introduction to Art Image Access.(Martha Baca, Ed)" Patricia Harping [Reader]
"From Context to Content: Leveraging Context to Infer Media Metadata" Marc Davis, Simon King, Nathan Good, and Risto Sarvas [Reader]
MM'04
"Media streams. In: Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, ed. Ronald M. Baecker, Jonathan Grudin, William A. S. Buxton, and Saul Greenberg. 854-866. 2nd ed." Marc Davis [Reader]
"Content Management for Electronic Music Distribution" Francois Pachet [Reader]
Communcations of the ACM, 46(4) (2003)
"ID3" [Reader]
Resources
October 4 : Tuesday
October 6 : Thursday
October 11 : Tuesday
October 13 : Thursday
[Oct 13] Enterprise Content and Knowledge Management
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Harnessing the Power of Enterprise Content Management" Manuel Barbero and Marcia Douglas [Reader]
CIO (18 May 2005)
"When You Say "KM" What Do You Mean?" Laurie Orlov [Reader]
CIO
"U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Agency Recordkeeping Requirements: A Management Guide" [Reader]
"Information Technology Controls" [Reader]
"Reuse, repurpose, repackage" John F. Terris [Reader]
Resources
October 18 : Tuesday
[Oct 18] Enterprise Data Management
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Adopting an Information Integration Strategy" Judith Hurwitz [Reader]
CIO
"Business Intelligence Gets Smart(er)" Alice Dragoon [Reader]
CIO (15 September 2003)
"Doing it with Meaning" John Edwards [Reader]
CIO (15 August 2002)
"Berkeley Campus Plan Implementing the UC Requirements for Protection of Computerized Personal Information" [Reader]
"XML Transformation and Metadata Repositories Enable Information Integration (XML 2004)" Gantz [Reader]
Resources
October 20 : Thursday
[Oct 20] Information Architecture
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Information Architecture Wiki: Information Architecture Defined" [Reader]
"Faceted metadata for image search and browsing" [Reader]
"Globalization, Localization, Internationalization and Translation" [Reader]
"Multilingual Web sites: Best practice, guidelines and architectures. Volume 1, through section 4.14" [Reader]
Resources
October 25 : Tuesday
[Oct 25] Multi-enterprise Information Organization and Management
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries" Norbert Lossau [Reader]
D-Lib Magazine, 10(6) (June 2004)
"The Strategy Machine. Chapter 4, The Information Supply Chain" Larry Downes [Reader]
"The Plug and Play economy" Glushko [Reader]
"Content integration for e-business (552-560 [Skip section 4 on "Cohera's solution"])" Michael Stonebraker and Joseph Hellerstein [Reader]
ACM SIGMOD (2001)
"Using the UNSPSC: United Nations Standard Products and Services Code" [Reader]
"Metadata Rules - a Report from the Open Forum on Metadata Registries " Alan Kotok [Reader]
Resources
October 27 : Thursday
[Oct 27] Social Information Organization and Management
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Collaborative Knowledge Gardening" Jon Udell [Reader]
"Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata " Adam Mathes [Reader]
"About MusicBrainz" [Reader]
"Collaborative Filtering" [Reader]
"Who Knows Whom, and Who Knows What? " Susannah Patton [Reader]
CIO (15 June 2005)
Resources
November 1 : Tuesday
[Nov 1] Personal Information Organization and Management; FIRST HALF COURSE REVIEW
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Six Roles of Documents in Professionals' Work" Morten Hertzum [Reader]
"A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload. (pages 19-33 [Part 1 of Article])" David Kirsh [Reader]
Intellectica
"Keeping and Re-Finding Information on the Web: What do People Do and What Do They Need?" Harry Bruce, William Jones, and Susan Dumais [Reader]
Resources
November 3 : Thursday
November 8 : Tuesday
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 3 (86-102), Chapter 5 (153-160) of Finding Out About [Textbook]
"Data-driven approaches to information access" Susan Dumais [Reader]
Cognitive Science, 27(3), 491-524 (2003)
Resources
November 10 : Thursday
November 15 : Tuesday
[Nov 14] Search Engines: Multimedia Search and Retrieval
Guest Lecturer: Brad Horowitz
Required Readings
"The Image User and the Search for Images. Introduction to Art Image Access (Martha Baca, Ed)" Christine Sundt [Reader]
"Google, Meet Tivo" [Reader]
Economist (9 June 2005)
"Bridging the Semantic Gap in Content Management Systems: Computational Media Aesthetics" Chitra Dorai and Svetha Venkatesh [Reader]
Proceedings of COSIGN 2001: Computational Semiotics
"Audio Retrieval by Dynamic Similarity" Jonathan Foote, Matthew Cooper, and Unjung Nam [Reader]
Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 2002.
Resources
November 17 : Thursday
November 22 : Tuesday
November 29 : Tuesday
[Nov 29] Applied IR and Natural Language Processing [1]
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Smart Tools" [Reader]
Business Week (Spring 2003)
"Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization" Dragomir Radev, Eduard Hovy, and Kathleen McKeown [Reader]
Computational Linguistics, 28(4) (2002)
"Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus" Adam Kilgarriff and Gregory Grefenstette [Reader]
Computational Linguistics, 29(3) (2003)
Resources
December 1 : Thursday
[Dec 1] Applied IR and Natural Language Processing [2]
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Siebel Brightware eService" [Reader]
"Web question answering: Is more always better? (SIGIR '02)" Susan Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy Lin, Andrew Ng [Reader]
"Which Semantic Web? (ACM Hypertext 2003)" Catherine Marshall and Frank Shipman [Reader]
Resources
December 6 : Tuesday
last updated on 2005-08-16 by cjjones