Syllabus

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Information Organization and Retrieval

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T-Th 9.30-11am

L1. 8/23 Orientation; Motivating "Organizing Systems" (Thu, 2012-08-23 09:30)

• Bush, Vannevar – "As We May Think"
• Borges, Jorge Luis – "The Library of Babel"
• Trant, Jennifer – "Emerging Convergence? Thoughts on Museums, Archives, Libraries and Professional Training"
• Boon, Miriam – "Rethinking Scientific Data Management"
• Homann, Ulrich; Rill, Michael; and Wimmer, Andreas – "Flexible Value Structures in Banking"

L2. 8/28 Foundations for Organizing Systems (Tue, 2012-08-28 09:30)

• Chapter 1 – Foundations for Organizing Systems

A1. 202 In The News (Due: 09/04/2012)

L3. 8/30 Foundations for Organizing Systems, part 2 (Thu, 2012-08-30 09:30)

• Baron, E. Fabens, M. Schiffman and E. Wolf – "Electronic Health Records: Just around the Corner? Or over the Cliff?"
• McGrath, Sean and Murray, Fergal – "Principles of E-Government Architecture"
• Wakabayashi, Daisuke – "Japanese Farms Look to the 'Cloud'"

L4. 9/4 Activities in Organizing Systems, Part 1 (Tue, 2012-09-04 09:30)

• Chapter 2 - Activities in Organizing Systems

A2. Organizing Principles (Andronico's vs. Amazon) (Due: 09/13/2012)

L5. 9/6 Activities in Organizing Systems, Part 2 (Thu, 2012-09-06 09:30)

• Morville, Peter and Rosenfeld, Louis - "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition", Sections 5.3 and 5.4
• Hearst, Marti – "Models of the Information Seeking Process," Chapter 3 of "Search User Interfaces"
• Wright, Alex – "Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web"

L6. 9/11 Resources in Organizing Systems, Part 1 (Tue, 2012-09-11 09:30)

• Chapter 3 – Resources in Organizing Systems

L7. 9/13 Resources in Organizing Systems, Part 2 (Thu, 2012-09-13 09:30)

• Kent, William – Preface and Chapter 1 "Entities" of "Data and Reality"
• Coyle, Karen – "Identifiers: Persistent, Unique, Global"
• Berners-Lee, Tim – "Cool URIs Don't Change"
• Brisbane, Arthur – "On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don’t"
• Smith, Abby – "Authenticity in Perspective"

L8. 9/18 Resource Description and Metadata, Part 1 (Tue, 2012-09-18 09:30)

• Chapter 4 – Resource Description and Metadata

A3. Resource Description (Due: 09/25/2012)

L9. 9/20 Resource Description and Metadata, Part 2 (Thu, 2012-09-20 09:30)

• Kent, William – Chapter 2, "The Nature of an Information System," and Chapter 3, "Naming," of "Data and Reality"
• Wheatley, Malcolm – "Operation Clean Data"
• Branting, L. Karl – "Name Matching in Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism"
• Doctorow, Cory – "Metacrap"
• Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, Danah Boyd, and Marc Davis. "HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, To Read"

L10. 9/25 XML (Tue, 2012-09-25 09:30)

• Glushko, Robert J., and McGrath, Tim – "XML Foundations," Chapter 2 of "Document Engineering"
• Bray, Tim – "On Language Creation"

A4. XML Editors and Descriptions (Due: 10/02/2012)

L11. 9/27 Describing Multimedia Resources (Thu, 2012-09-27 09:30)

• Harpring, Patricia – "The Language of Images"
• Naaman, Harada; Wang, Garcia-Molina; and Paepcke – "Context Data in Geo-Referenced Digital Photo Collections"
• Hemerly, J. – "Making Metadata: The Case of MusicBrainz" (pages 4-9, 24-29)

L12. 10/2 Describing Relationships and Structures, Part 1 (Tue, 2012-10-02 09:30)

• Chapter 5 – Describing Relationships and Structures

A5. Ontology (Due: 10/11/2012)

L13. 10/4 Describing Relationships and Structures, Part 2 (Thu, 2012-10-04 09:30)

• Kent, William – "Relationships," Chapter 4 of "Data and Reality"
• Berners-Lee, Tim; Hendler, James; and Lassila, Ora – "The Semantic Web"
• Byrne, Gillian and Goddard, Lisa – "The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data"
• Fellbaum, Christiane – "Wordnet"

L14. 10/9 Categories: Describing Resource Classes and Types, Part 1 (Tue, 2012-10-09 09:30)

• Chapter 6 – Categorization: Describing Resource Classes and Types

L15. 10/11 Categories: Describing Resource Classes and Types, Part 2 (Thu, 2012-10-11 09:30)

• Glushko, Robert J. – "Modeling Methods and Artifacts for Crossing the Data/Document Divide"
• de Larios-Heiman, Lisa and Cracraft, Carolyn – "SylViA: The Syllabus Viewing Application" (pages 1-6)
• Rosenthal, Arnon; Seligman, Len; and Renner, Scott – "From Semantic Integration to Semantics Management"

L16. 10/16 Classification: Assigning Resources to Categories, Part 1 (Tue, 2012-10-16 09:30)

• Chapter 7 – Classification: Assigning Resources to Categories

A6. Faceted Classification (Due: 10/25/2012)

L17. 10/18 Classification: Assigning Resources to Categories, Part 2 (Thu, 2012-10-18 09:30)

• Bowker, G., and Star, S. - "Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consquences," Chapter 1 (1-13)
• Li, Jiexun, et al. – "From Fingerprint to Writeprint"
• Graham, P. - "A Plan for Spam"

L18. 10/23 Midterm Review (In Class) (Tue, 2012-10-23 09:30)

L19. 10/25 Personal Information Management (Thu, 2012-10-25 09:30)

• Davies, Stephen – "Still Building the Memex"
• Kirsh, David – "A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload"
• Marshall, Catherine – "Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1"

L20. 10/30 Midterm (Tue, 2012-10-30 00:00)

Midterm (Due: 10/30/2012)

L21. 11/1 Interactions in Organizing Systems; Introduction to IR and NLP (Thu, 2012-11-01 09:30)

• Chapter 9 – Interactions with Resources
• Michel, Jean-Baptiste, et al. – "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books"
• Greengard, Samuel – "Life, Translated"

A7. Model Mapping and Interoperability (Due: 11/13/2012)

L22. 11/6 Interactions in Organizing Systems, Part 2 (Tue, 2012-11-06 09:30)

• Glushko, Robert J. and McGrath, Tim – "When Models Don't Match: The Interoperability Challenge," Chapter 6 of "Document Engineering"
• Schwarzman, Alexander B., et al. – "XML-Centric Workflow Offers Benefits to Scholarly Publishers"

L23. 11/8 Text Processing and Boolean Models (Thu, 2012-11-08 09:30)

• Manning, Christopher, et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 1, p. 1-6 – "Boolean Retrieval")
• Manning, Christopher, et al. – Ch. 2 – "The Term Vocabulary and Postings Lists")

L24. 11/13 UIs for Search and IR (Tue, 2012-11-13 09:30)

• Hearst, Marti – "Search User Interfaces" (Preface and Ch. 1)
• Keates, S., Varker, P., and Spowart, F. - "Human-Machine Design Considerations in Advanced Machine-Learning Systems"

A8. Search User Interface Evaluation (Due: 11/20/2012)

L25. 11/15 Vector Models and Dimensionality Reduction (Thu, 2012-11-15 09:30)

• Manning, Christopher, et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 6 – "Scoring, Term Weighting and the Vector Space Model")
• Yu, Clara, et al. – "Patterns in Unstructured Data" (Read from "Latent Semantic Indexing" through "Applications of LSI")

L26. 11/20 Web Search and Structure-Based Models, Part 1 (Tue, 2012-11-20 09:30)

• Manning, Christopher, et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 19, p. 421-431 – "Web Search Basics")"
• Manning, Christopher et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 21)

L27. 11/27 Structure-Based Models, Part 2 (Tue, 2012-11-27 09:30)

• Manning, Christopher, et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 10 – "XML retrieval")
• Bourret, Ron – "Going Native: Use Cases for Native XML Databases"

L28. 11/29 Mobile and Multimedia IR (Thu, 2012-11-29 09:30)

• Hearst, Marti – "Search User Interfaces" (Ch. 12 – "Emerging Trends in Search User Interfaces")
• Schmitz, Patrick and Black, Michael – "The Delphi Toolkit: Enabling Semantic Search for Museum Collections"

A9. Text Processing Tools (Due: 12/06/2012)

12/4 Alumni Day (Tue, 2012-12-04 09:30)

A10. Optional Alumni Day Reflection (Due: 12/11/2012)

12/6 Course Review (Thu, 2012-12-06 09:30)

• Chapter 10 – A Roadmap for Organizing Systems

12/11 Final Exam (Tue, 2012-12-11 09:30)

Final (Due: 12/11/2012)