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