Administrivia
Professor Bob Glushko
Email: glushko@sims.berkeley.edu
Website: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~glushko/
Office number: (510) 643-2754
Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00am-12:00pm Thursday 8:00am-9:00am 313 South Hall
TA John Josling
Email: josling@sims.berkeley.edu
TA Andrea Moed
Email: amoeda@sims.berkeley.edu
Course Description
Three hours of lecture per week. This course introduces the intellectual foundations of information organization and retrieval: conceptual modeling, semantic representation, vocabulary and metadata design, classification, and standardization, as well as information organization and retrieval practices, technology, and applications, including computational processes for analyzing information in both textual and non-textual formats. Students will learn how information organization and retrieval is carried out by professionals, authors, and users; by individuals in association with other individuals, and as part of the business processes in an enterprise and across enterprises.
This is a required introductory course for incoming School of Information masters students, integrating perspectives and best practices from a wide range of disciplines.
Students are also required to attend a one-hour small section meeting each week starting the second week of the semester (Tuesday 11am or 5pm; Wednesday 5:30pm)
Course Information
Course Dates: August 29 to December 7, 2006
Lecture Schedule: Tuesday Thursday 9:00am-10:30am in 202 South Hall
Units: 4
Grading Option: Letter Grade only
Course Texts
Required
The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, Elaine Svenonius. 2000. ISBN: 0262194333
Introduction to Information Retrieval (draft chapters from upcoming book), Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze. 2007.
Reader
Available at Copy Central, Bancroft (after 25 August)
Course Work
August 29 : Tuesday
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"As We May Think" Vannevar Bush [Reader]
"MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything" Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, and Roger Lueder [Reader]
Communications of the ACM (January 2006)
"Scan This Book" Kevin Kelly [Reader]
New York Times (14 May 2006)
"The Library of Babel, from Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings" Jorge Luis Borges [Reader]
Resources
August 31 : Thursday
2. How to Think About Information
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Preface, Chapter 1 of The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization [Textbook]
"Fundamental Forms of Information" Marcia Bates [Reader, 1033 - 1045]
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 57(8) (June 2006)
"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]
Resources
September 5 : Tuesday
3. Information Organization {and,or,vs} Search
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 2 of The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization [Textbook]
"Human Information Behavior: Integrating Diverse Approaches and Information Use" Amanda Spink and Charles Cole [Reader, 25-35 (skim or skip after page 29)]
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 57(1) (January 2006)
"Searching to Eliminate Personal Information Management" Edward Cutrell, Susan Dumais, and Jaime Teevan [Reader]
Communications of the ACM (January 2006)
"From IR to Search and Beyond" Ramana Rao [Reader]
ACM Queue (May 2004)
"Enterprise Search: Tough Stuff" Rajat Mukherjee and Jianchang Mao [Reader]
ACM Queue (April 2004)
Resources
September 7 : Thursday
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)
"Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. (preface through p 67)" George Lakoff [Reader]
Resources
September 12 : Tuesday
5. Metadata and Metadata Standards [1]
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 3, Chapter 4 (62 - 66) of The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization [Textbook]
"Using Dublin Core" Diane Hillman [Reader]
"Using Dublin Core - The Elements" Diane Hillman [Reader]
"Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging" Betty Furrie [Reader]
Resources
September 14 : Thursday
6. Metadata and Metadata Standards [2]
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 5 of The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization [Textbook]
"Metadata Interoperability and Standardization – A Study of Methodology Part I. Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level (skip or skim "Sources and References")" Lois Chan and Marcia Zeng [Reader]
"Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia" Cory Doctorow [Reader]
Resources
September 19 : Tuesday
7. Controlled Names and Controlled Vocabularies
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 6, Chapter 8 (127-132) of The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization [Textbook]
"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]
"Document Engineering, Chapter 12, Analyzing Document Components" Glushko and McGrath [Reader]
Resources
September 21 : Thursday
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapter 8 (139-146), Chapter 9 (159-171), Chapter 10 of The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization [Textbook]
"How to make a faceted classification and put it on the web" William Denton [Reader]
"Faceted metadata for image search and browsing" Yee, Swearington, Li, and Hearst [Reader]
Resources
September 26 : Tuesday
9. Metadata for Multimedia and Non-text Information
Lecturer: Andrea Moed
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]
"Context Data in Geo-Referenced Digital Photo Collections " Mor Naaman, Susumu Harada, QianUing Wang, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Andreas Paepcke [Reader]
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (2004)
"Editing Out Video Editing" Marc Davis [Reader]
IEEE Multimedia (April-June 2003 )
Resources
September 28 : Thursday
October 3 : Tuesday
October 5 : Thursday
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"The Semantic Web" Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila [Reader]
Scientific American (May 2001)
"OWL Web Ontology Language: Use Cases and Requirements. [Sections 1 and 2, p 1-7] " [Online]
"Which Semantic Web?" Catherine Marshall and Frank Shipman [Reader]
ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (2003)
Resources
October 10 : Tuesday
13. Documents and Document Models
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Document Engineering, Chapter 2, XML Foundations" Glushko and McGrath [Reader]
"SylViA: The Syllabus Viewing Application (Overview and The SylViA Data Model)" Lisa de Larios-Heiman and Carolyn Cracraft [Reader]
"On Language Creation" Tim Bray [Reader]
XML 2005
"What's the Next Big Thing on the Web? It May Be a Small, Simple Thing -- Microformats" Knowledge@Wharton [Reader]
Resources
October 12 : Thursday
Guest Lecturer: Ray Larson of the iSchool (email, website)
Required Readings
"Introduction (part of SQL for Web Nerds)" Philip Greenspun [Reader]
"Introduction to Relational Databases" Ian Gilfillan [Reader]
Database Journal (Note: You are encouraged to follow the links at the end of this article and explore further, especially "Simple SQL") (24 June 2002)
"Database Normalization" Ian Gilfillan [Reader]
Database Journal (22 March 2002)
Resources
October 17 : Tuesday
15. Personal Information Management
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload. (pages 19-33 [Part 1 of Article])" David Kirsh [Reader]
Intellectica
"Data Unification in Personal Information Management" David Karger and William Jones [Reader]
Communications of the ACM (January 2006)
"Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing and abundant storage" Mary Czerwinski, Douglas W. Gage, Jim Gemmell, Catherine C. Marshall, Manuel A. Prez-Quiones, Meredith M. Skeels, and Tiziana Catarci [Reader]
Communications of the ACM (January 2006)
Resources
October 19 : Thursday
16. Enterprise Information Management [1]
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Agency Recordkeeping Requirements: A Management Guide" [Reader]
"Information Technology Controls" [Reader]
"XML-centric workflow offers benefits to scholarly publishers" Alexander B. Schwarzman, Hyunmin Hur, Shu-Li Pai, and Carter Glass [Reader]
IdeAlliance XML 2004 Conference
Resources
October 24 : Tuesday
17. Enterprise Information Management [2]
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Bringing together content and data management: Challenges and opportunities" A. Somani, D. Choy, and J. C. Kleewein [Reader]
IBM Systems Journal 41(4) (2002)
"Semantic Integration: Tapping the Full Potential of Enterprise Data" Neil Raden [Reader]
"Chapter 4, The Information Supply Chain" Larry Downes [Reader]
The Strategy Machine
Resources
October 26 : Thursday
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"User Interface Design Patterns: Strengths, Challenges and Future of Design Patterns" Mano Marks and Kelly Snow [Reader]
"Chapter 2, Organizing the Content: Information Architecture and Application Structure. " Jennifer Tidwell [Reader]
Designing Interfaces
"Chapter 4, Organizing the Page: Layout of Page Elements" Jennifer Tidwell [Reader]
Designing Interfaces
"Globalization, Localization, Internationalization and Translation" [Reader]
Resources
October 31 : Tuesday
19. The Searcher's Perspective on IR; User Interfaces for IR
Guest Lecturer: Marti Hearst of the iSchool (website)
Required Readings
"Best Practices and Future Visions for Search User Interfaces" Marc Resnick and Misha Vaughan [Reader, 781-787]
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 57(6) (2006)
"Studying User Strategies and Characteristics for Developing Web Search Interfaces (Chapters 3 and 4)" Anne Aula [Reader]
Ph D Thesis, University of Tampere (December 2005)
Resources
November 2 : Thursday
20. Multimedia Search and Retrieval
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"The Image User and the Search for Images. Introduction to Art Image Access (Martha Baca, Ed)" Christine Sundt [Reader]
"Bridging the Semantic Gap in Content Management Systems: Computational Media Aesthetics" Chitra Dorai and Svetha Venkatesh [Reader]
Proceedings of COSIGN 2001: Computational Semiotics
"Multimedia Information Retrieval: What is it, and why isnt anyone using it?" Alejandro Jaimes, Mike Christel, Sbastien Gilles, Ramesh Sarukkai, and Wei-Ying Ma [Reader]
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGMM (2005)
Resources
November 7 : Tuesday
21. Text Processing for IR; Boolean Models
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapters 1 and 2 of Introduction to Information Retrieval (draft chapters from upcoming book) [Online]
Resources
November 9 : Thursday
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
Chapters 6 and 7 of Introduction to Information Retrieval (draft chapters from upcoming book) [Online]
Resources
November 14 : Tuesday
November 16 : Thursday
November 21 : Tuesday
November 28 : Tuesday
26. Applied IR and Natural Language Processing [1]
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus" Adam Kilgarriff and Gregory Grefenstette [Reader]
Computational Linguistics 29(3) (2003)
"From Babel to Knowledge Data Mining Large Digital Collections" Daniel Cohen [Reader]
D-Lib Magazine (March 2006)
"The Elusive Goal of Machine Translation" Gary Stix [Reader]
Scientific American (March 2006)
Resources
November 30 : Thursday
27. Applied IR and Natural Language Processing [2]
Lecturer: Bob Glushko
Required Readings
"A Plan for Spam" Paul Graham [Reader]
"Mining and Summarizing Customer Reviews" Minquing Hu and Bing Liu [Reader]
Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGKDD (2004)
"Web question answering: Is more always better?" Susan Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy Lin, and Andrew Ng [Reader]
Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR (2002)
Resources
December 7 : Thursday
last updated on 2006-12-07 by RJG