i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

 http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-laws-of-information-chemis.html

This article talks about the importance of standard information structures so that we can generate richer information and provide better access to people. However, the reality is still far away from the way supposed to be, and he gives an example of calendar data for it. Calendar data is organized in four popular ways: Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, and Lotus Notes. However, events pages on websites are likely to organize and publicize their data with RSS or Atom feeds rather than those four feeds. The author argues that "using RSS or Atom feeds is a category error" because those feeds use not the standard way to encode dates, times, and locations. This difference in structures restricts the broader share of digital calendar data.

The article is very related to 202, especially information organization part. It discusses how data should be organized in standard ways, the reason of data being organized, and in what way the data should be organized.