information organization

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Organizing our autobiographies : The Facebook Timeline

Facebook’s “Timeline” feature which was introduced in December 2011 has now been made mandatory. This feature allows the users to highlight photos, events and posts from the past on their profiles and create a story that represents their life in the way they want to share it with the world.

Evolution of information storage ?

Does it make any sense if I were to say that Harry potter is in my genes ? Of course, it doesn't. But hang on, researchers are always a few steps ahead of us. Researchers at Harvard have found a way of storing information in the DNA. Crazy, right ?


(Source: http://blog.longnow.org/)

Nursing homes' problems revealed in new online tool

The elderly people pass through a stage in life that is considered the last, where the life’s projects are finished, but where it is possible to enjoy this phase in peace. However, considering that many seniors are retired (with decreasing incomes in the best case), the health problems related with age, and the significant aging of all populations, the aging of people raises new challenges to all members of all societies, and of course to families, around the world.

Welcome to 202

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.

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