School of Information Management & Systems   Fall 1999.   Michael Buckland.
290-3 Concepts of Information Management. Class Schedule
Handouts in italics.   List of readings.
Weekly progress reports on students' "Concept Guides."

Dec 1: Quirks: Wrap up.
Briefly: Habermas; Foundationalism and Hermaneutics; and D. McKay on Information Theory.
Bunge. "Knowledge: Ordinary and Scientific."
Lakoff. "Cluster models."
Nov 24: Knowledge.
Kemp. The Nature of Knowledge. Chap 3: "The Nature of Knowledge."
Lehrer. Theory of Knowledge. Chap 1: "The Analysis of Knowledge."
Mattey. Lecture Notes, Lehrer's Theory of Knowledge, Chapter 1.
Foundationalism and Hermeneutics.
Wood. Knowledge before Printing and After. pp 183-186.
Nov 17: White & McCain. "Visualizing a Discipline: An Author Co-Cocitation Analysis of Information Science, 1972-1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49, n.4 (1998): 327-355.
Nov 10: Economics of information.
Derr. The Concept of Information In Ordinary Discourse.
Nov 3: Video by James Burke: Darwin's Revolution.
K. L. Ross. Foundationalism and Hermeneutics.
Oct 27: "Information Society" (Cont.); Combining set theory, vocabulary, and semiotics.
Oct 20: Guest: Christian Plaunt: On the Construction of Selection Systems.
Oct 13: The "Information Society".
Oct 6: Semiotics: Semantics, syntax, pragmatics. Vocabulary.
Frank Webster. Theories of the Information Society. 1995. Chaps 2 "Information and the Idea of an Information Society" & chap 10 "Conclusion".
Daniel Chandler. Semiotics for Beginners. - "Introduction".
- "Signs".
Forey, Peter L. et al. Cladistics: A Practical Course in Systemics. Oxford UP, 1992. Chaps 1: "Cladistic Theory." and 10: "Formal Classification".
Sept 29: Work, text, performance.
Patrick Wilson. Chapter 1: "The Bibliographic Universe." pp 6-19 in: Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographic Control. 1968.
A. J. Meadows. Theory in Information Science. Journal of Information Science 16 (1990): 59-63.
Mona L. Scott. "Tables." pp 29-32 In Dewey Decimal Classification, 21st Edition: A Study Manual and Number Building Guide. 1998.
Sept 22: Relevance: Aboutness, Pertinence, Subject, Topic, Utility.
Tefko Saracevic: "Relevance: A Review and a Framework" JASIS Nov-Dec 1975: 321-343.
Tefko Saracevic: "Relevance reconsidered '96" CoLIS2 (1996) 201-218.
Sept 15: Categorization: Indexicality, classification, taxonomy, metadata, ontologies.
Subject Access. Categorization, Indexicality, Classification.. Description: Entities, Attributes, Values, Context.
Bohdan Wynar. Chap 10: "Classification" pp 192-222 in 1st ed. of Introduction to Cataloging and Classification. 1964.
Patrick Wilson: "Situational Relevance." Information Processing and Management 9 (1973): 475-471.
Buckland What is a "document"?
Sept 8: Units: Documents, Data, Genre. Sets and ordering. Ordering measures: Recall, Precision, Generality.
Patrick Wilson. "Bibliographical R & D." In: Machlup, Fritz & Una Mansfield. The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Voices. Wiley 1983. pp 389-397.
Buckland: "Information as Thing". Journal of the American Society of Information Science 42:5 (June 1991): 351-360.
Sept 1: Information.
Assignment 1: Find "Information" due.
Guest: Rosario Gassol de Horowitz, Venezuela: Designing a new Masters degree.
Aug 25: Introduction.
Guest: Julian Warner, Belfast: Introduction to concepts in information management (science). (Handout).