Administrivia
Professor Robert Glushko
Email: glushko@ischool.berkeley.edu
Website: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~glushko/
Office number: +1-510-6432754
Office Hours: Monday 11:00am-12:00pm Tuesday 12:00pm-1:00pm 313 South Hall
Teaching Assistant Matt Earp
Email: matt@Ischool.berkeley.edu
Teaching Assistant Yiming Liu
Course Description
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 (M 1-2 or T 11-12)
Course Information
Course Dates: August 27 to December 10, 2007
Lecture Schedule: Monday 9:00am-10:30am Wednesday 9:00am-10:30am in 202 South Hall
Units: 4
Grading Option: Letter Grade only
Course Work
August 27 : Monday
Resources
Required Reading
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945
Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, & Roger Lueder,
"MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything," Communications of the ACM (January 2006)
David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous, Chapters 1, 2, & 3
August 29 : Wednesday
September 5 : Wednesday
3. Information Organization {and,or,vs} Retrieval
Resources
Assignment 1 - "Everything is Miscellaneous"
Summary of Assignment 1 - "Everything is Miscellaneous"
Required Reading
Weinberger, Chapters 7, 8, & 9
Svenonius, Chapter 2
September 10 : Monday
Resources
Required Reading
George Lakoff, "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things," Chapters 1 & 2 (pages 5-57)
George W. Furnas, Thomas K. Landauer, Louis M. Gomez, and Susan T. Dumais, "The Vocabulary Problem in Human-System Communication," Communications of the ACM, 30(11), 964-971 (1987)
September 12 : Wednesday
5. Metadata & Metadata Standards
Resources
Assignment 2 - "Designing a Vocabulary"
Summary of Assignment 2 - "Designing a Vocabulary"
Required Reading
Svenonius, Chapter 3, Chapter 4 (62 - 66)
Diane Hillman, "Using Dublin Core"
Diane Hillman, "Using Dublin Core -- The Elements"
Cory Doctorow, "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the
meta-utopia"
September 19 : Wednesday
Resources
Assignment 3 - "Faceted Classification"
Required Reading
Svenonius, Chapter 8 (139-146), Chapter 9 (159-171), & Chapter 10
William Denton, "How to make a faceted classification and put it on the web"
September 24 : Monday
Resources
Required Reading
Patricia Harpring,
"The Language of Images: Enhancing Access to Images by Applying
Metadata Schemas and Structured Vocabularies"
Kai-Ping Yee, Kirsten Swearington, Kevin Li, & Marti Hearst,
"Faceted metadata for image search and browsing"
Mor Naaman, Susumu Harada, QianUing Wang, Hector Garcia-Molina, & Andreas Paepcke,
"Context Data in Geo-Referenced Digital Photo Collections," Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (2004)
Marc Davis, "Editing Out Video Editing," IEEE Multimedia (April-June 2003 )
October 1 : Monday
October 3 : Wednesday
Resources
Required Reading
October 8 : Monday
Resources
Required Reading
Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, & Ora Lassila, "The Semantic Web," Scientific American (May 2001)
Knowledge@Wharton, "What Is the Next Big Thing on the Web? It May Be a Small,
Simple Thing -- Microformats"
Dave McComb, The CIO's Guide to Semantics, Version 2. 2005.
Catherine Marshall & Frank Shipman, "Which Semantic Web?"
ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2003)
October 10 : Wednesday
13. Social / Distributed Categorization
Resources
Assignment 5 - "Social / Distributed Categorization"
Required Reading
Adam Mathes, "Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication
Through Shared Metadata
Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, & Joanna
Scott, "Social Bookmarking Tools (I) A General Review," D-Lib Magazine (April 2005)
Morgan Ames & Mor Naaman, "Why We Tag: Motivations for Annotation in Mobile and Online Media," CHI 2007
Shilad Sen, Shyong Lam, Al Mamunur Rashid, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowsi, Jeremy Osterhouse, F. Maxwell Harper, & John Riedl, "tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution," CSCW'06
October 15 : Monday
14. Personal Information Management
Resources
Required Reading
Whittaker, S. & Sidner, C. (1996). Email overload: Exploring personal information management of email. In Proceedings
of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM Press, NY, 276-283,
David Karger & William Jones, "Data Unification in Personal Information Management," Communications of the ACM (January 2006)
Mary Czerwinski, Douglas W. Gage, Jim Gemmell, Catherine C.
Marshall, Manuel A. Prez-Quiones, Meredith M. Skeels, & Tiziana
Catarci, "Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing and
abundant storage," Communications of the ACM (January 2006)
David Kirsh, "A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload," Intellectica (2000)
October 17 : Wednesday
15. Institutional Categorization
Resources
Required Reading
Maureen Breitenberg, The ABC's of Standards-related Activities in the United States, NBSIR 87-3576, May 1987
Lois Chan & Marcia Zeng, "Metadata Interoperability and Standardization – A Study of
Methodology Part I. Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level (skip
or skim "Sources and References")
Michael Stonebraker & Joseph Hellerstein, "Content Integration for E-Business, Proceedings of 2001 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
October 22 : Monday
16. Institutional / Enterprise Information Management [1]
Resources
Required Reading
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Agency
Recordkeeping Requirements: A Management Guide
Teri Robinson, Data Security in the Age of Compliance, netWorker, 9(3), September 2005.
Alexander B. Schwarzman, Hyunmin Hur, Shu-Li Pai, & Carter
Glass, XML-centric workflow offers benefits to scholarly publishers, XML 2004 Conference
October 24 : Wednesday
17. Institutional / Enterprise Information Management [2]
Resources
Required Reading
Larry Downes, Chapter 4, "The Information Supply Chain," The Strategy Machine,
Lauren Horwitz, "Bagging Market Share with IT," CIO Decisions, February 2007.
Jenna Burrell, Tim Brooke, & Richard Beckwith, "Vineyard Computing: Sensor Networks in Agricultural Production," Pervasive Computing, January-March 2004.
Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi, & Marcia Kaufman, Chapter 13, "Where's the Data?, Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies, 2006
Anant Jhingran, Enterprise Information Mashups: Integrating Information, Simply. VLDB '06.
October 31 : Wednesday
Resources
Required Reading
Mano Marks & Kelly Snow, "User Interface Design Patterns: Strengths, Challenges and
Future of Design Patterns," 2006.
Jennifer Tidwell, Designing Interfaces, "Chapter 2, Organizing the Content: Information Architecture and Application Structure."
Jennifer Tidwell, Designing Interfaces, "Chapter 4, Organizing the Page: Layout of
Page Elements"
Globalization, Localization, Internationalization and
Translation
November 5 : Monday
November 7 : Wednesday
November 14 : Wednesday
Resources
November 19 : Monday
23. Dimensionality Reduction & Latent Semantic Analysis
Resources
Required Reading
Susan Dumais, "Data-driven approaches to information access," Cognitive Science, 27(3), 491-524 (2003)
Clara Yu, John Cuadrado, Maciej Caglowski, & J. Scott Payne, "Patterns in Unstructured Data," 2002 (read from "Latent Semantic Indexing" through "Applications of LSI")
November 28 : Wednesday
26. Multimedia Search & Retrieval
Resources
Required Reading
Christine Sundt, "The Image User and the Search for Images,"Introduction to Art Image Access (Martha Baca, Ed)
"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)
December 3 : Monday
27. Applied IR & Natural Language Processing [1]
Resources
Required Reading
Adam Kilgarriff & Gregory Grefenstette, "Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus," Computational Linguistics 29(3) (2003)
Gary Stix, "The Elusive Goal of Machine Translation," Scientific American (March 2006)
Weiguo Fan, Linda Wallace, Stephanie Rich, & Zhongju Zhang, "Tapping the Power of Text Mining," Communications of the ACM, September 2006
Paul Graham, "A Plan for Spam" August 2002
December 5 : Wednesday
December 10 :
Resources
last updated on 25 September 2007 by RJG
