Syllabus

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Information Organization and Retrieval

202
MW 9-10:30

L1. Course Overview (August 29, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Borges, Jorge Luis – "The Library of Babel"
• R2. Bush, Vannevar – "As We May Think"
• R3. Trant, Jennifer – "Emerging Convergence? Thoughts on museums, archives, libraries and professional training" (p. 1-8)
• R4. Poole, Erika Shehan and Grudin, Jonathan, "A Taxonomy of Wiki Genres in Enterprises"
• R5. Boon, Miriam – "Rethinking Scientific Data Management"
• R6. Wang, Joy – "A Seed Library for Heirloom Plants Thrives in the Hudson Valley"
• R7. Wakabayashi, Daisuke – "Japanese Farms Look to the 'Cloud'"
• R8. Bosman, Julie – "Publisher Limits Shelf Life for Library E-Books"
• R9. Homann, Ulrich; Rill, Michael; and Wimmer, Andreas – "Flexible Value Structures in Banking"
• R10. Wright, Alex – "Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web"

A1. 202 in the News (Due: 09/12/2011)

A0. Bob at Bear's Lair! (Due: 09/12/2011)

L2. The Organizing System (August 31, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Glushko, Robert J. – "The Discipline of Organizing" (Ch. 1 - "Foundations for Organizing Systems")

L3. The Activities of Organizing Systems (September 7, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Glushko, Robert J., et al. – "The Discipline of Organizing" (Ch. 2 - "The Activities of Organizing Systems")
• R2. Hearst, Marti – "Search User Interfaces" (Ch. 3 - "Models of the Information Seeking Process")

L4. Design Patterns for Organizing Systems (September 12, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Glushko, Robert J. – "The Discipline of Organizing" (Ch. 3 - "Design Patterns for Organizing Systems")
• R2. Morville, Peter and Rosenfeld, Louis - "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition" (sections 5.3-5.4 - "Organization Schemes" and "Organization Structures")
• R3. McGrath, Sean and Murray, Fergal – "Principles of E-Government Architecture"

A2. Design Patterns (Due: 09/19/2011)

L5. Resources (September 14, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. The Discipline of Organizing Ch. 4 - Resources in Organizing Systems
• R2. Coyle, Karen – "Identifiers: Persistent, Unique, Global"
• R3. Berners-Lee, Tim – "Cool URIs don't change"
• R4. Brisbane, Arthur – "On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don’t"
• R5. Smith, Abby – "Authenticity in a Digital Environment" (p. 77-84)

L6. Describing Resources (September 19, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. The Discipline of Organizing Ch. 5, Describing Resources
• R2. Branting, L. Karl – "Name Matching in Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism"
• R3. Wheatley, Malcolm – "Operation Clean Data"

A3. XML and XML Editors (Due: 09/26/2011)

L7. XML (September 21, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Glushko, Robert J. and McGrath, Tim – "Document Engineering" (Ch. 2 "XML Foundations")
• R2. Stolley, Karl – "Using Microformats: Gateway to the Semantic Web"
• R3. Bray, Tim – "On Language Creation"

L8. Implementing Resource Descriptions (September 26, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. The Discipline of Organizing Ch. 6 – "Implementing Resource Descriptions"
• R2. Doctorow, Cory – "Metacrap"
• R3. Park – "Metadata Quality in Digital Repositories: A Survey of the Current State of the Art"

A4. Modeling a Vocabulary (Due: 10/05/2011)

L9. Categories (September 28, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. The Discipline of Organizing – Chapter 7
• R2. Glushko, Robert J. – "Modeling Methods and Artifacts for Crossing the Data/Document Divide"
• R3. de Larios-Heiman, Lisa and Cracraft, Carolyn – "SylViA: The Syllabus Viewing Application"

L10. Classification (October 3, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. The Discipline of Organizing – Chapter 8
• R2. Marlow, Cameron; Naaman, Mor; Boyd, Danah; and Davis, Marc – "HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read"
• R3. Wright, Alex – "Our Sentiments, Exactly"
• R4. Li, Jiexun, et al. – "From Fingerprint to Writeprint"

L11. Relations and Structure (October 5, 2011 - 09:00)

• R2. The Discipline of Organizing – Chapter 9
• R3. Pepper, Steve – "The TAO of Topic Maps: Finding the Way in the Age of Infoglut"

A5. Faceted Classification (Due: 10/12/2011)

L12. Relations and Structure (2) (October 10, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Macroberts, M. H ., and Macroberts, Barbara R. – "Problems of Citation Analysis"
• R2. Cafarella, Michael J., et al. – "Structured data on the web"
• R3. Glushko, Robert J. and McGrath, Tim – "Document Engineering" (Ch. 3, p. 73-86)

L13. Semantic Web, Linked Data (October 12, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Berners-Lee, Tim; Hendler, James; and Lassila, Ora – "The Semantic Web"
• R2. W3C – "OWL Web Ontology Language Use Cases and Requirements" (Sections 1 & 2)
• R3. Byrne, Gillian and Goddard, Lisa – "The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data"

A6. Ontology (Due: 10/17/2011)

L14. Multimedia IO (October 17, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. McPherson, Kimra – "The Discipline of Organizing" (Ch. 5, Section 5.3 "Describing Multimedia and Multi-dimensional Instances")
• R2. Harping, Patricia – "The Language of Images"
• R3. Naaman, Harada; Wang, Garcia-Molina; and Paepcke – "Context Data in Geo-Referenced Digital Photo Collections"
• R4. Jess Hemerly. Making Metadata: The Case of MusicBrainz

L15. Course Review (October 19, 2011 - 09:00)

A7. Personal Information Management and Distributed Classification (Due: 11/07/2011)

L16. Enterprise Organizing Systems (October 24, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Schwarzman, Alexander B., et al. – "XML-centric workflow offers benefits to scholarly publishers"
• R2. Baron, E. Fabens, M. Schiffman and E. Wolf – "Electronic Health Records: Just around the Corner? Or over the Cliff?"
• R3. Chaudhuri, Surajit et al. – "An Overview of Business Intelligence Technology"

L17. Combining Descriptions: Integration and Interoperability (October 26, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Nomorosa, K., and Ekaterin, J. – "The Discipline of Organizing" (Ch. 10)
• R2. Rosenthal, Arnon; Seligman, Len; and Renner, Scott – "From Semantic Integration to Semantics Management"
• R3. Brunnermeier, Smita, and Martin, Sheila – "Interoperability Costs in the US Automotive Supply Chain"

L18. Personal Information Management (October 31, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Davies, Stephen – "Still Building the Memex"
• R2. Kirsh, David – "A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload"
• R3. Karger, David, and Jones, William – "Data Unification in Personal Information Management"
• R4. Marshall, Catherine – "Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1"

L19. Midterm (November 2, 2011 - 09:00)

Midterm (Due: 11/02/2011)

L20. Introduction to IR and NLP (November 7, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Cohen, Daniel – "From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections"
• R2. Michel, Jean-Baptiste, et al. – "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books"
• R3. Greengard, Samuel – "Life, Translated"
• R4. Ferucci, David – "Building Watson – A Brief Overview of the DeepQA Project"

L21. User Interfaces for Search and IR (November 9, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Hearst, Marti – "Search User Interfaces" (Preface and Ch. 1)

A8. Search UI Evaluation (Due: 11/16/2011)

L22. Text Processing; Boolean Models (November 14, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Manning, Christopher, et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 1, p. 1-6 – "Boolean Retrieval", and Ch. 2 – "The term vocabulary & postings lists")

L23. Vector Models & Dimensionality Reduction (November 16, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Manning, Christopher, et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 6 – "Scoring, term weighting & the vector space model")
• R3. Yu, Clara, et al. – "Patterns in Unstructured Data"

A9. Text Toolkit (due 11/30) (Due: 11/30/2011)

L24. Web Search & Structure-Based Models (November 21, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Manning, Christopher, et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 19, p. 421-431 – "Web search basics")
• R2. Manning, et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 21) or Diaz – "Through the Google Goggles"

L25. Structure-Based Models (2) (November 23, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Manning, Christopher, et al. – "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Ch. 10 – "XML retrieval")
• R2. Bourret, Ron – "Going native: Use cases for native XML databases"

L26. Mobile and Multimedia IR (November 28, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Hearst, Marti – "Search User Interfaces" (Ch. 12 – "Emerging Trends in Search User Interfaces")
• R2. Knees, Peter; Pohle, Tim, et al. – "A music search engine built upon audio-based and web-based similarity measures"
• R3. Schmitz, Patrick and Black, Michael – "The Delphi Toolkit: Enabling Semantic Search for Museum Collections"

L27. Applied IR and NLP (November 30, 2011 - 09:00)

• R1. Sarawagi, Sunita – "Information Extraction" (p. 263-281)
• A Plan for Spam
• Decoding Our Chatter

L28. Alumni Day (December 5, 2011 - 09:00)

A10. Optional Alumni Day Reflection (Due: 12/07/2011)

L29. Course Review (December 7, 2011 - 09:00)

L30. Final Exam (December 12, 2011 - 09:00)

Final (Due: 12/12/2011)