Foundations of Information Science

UNC SILS, INLS 101, Fall 2013

August 20
Introduction: What is Information Science?

August 22
History of Information Science

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Read pages 2570-2577 of the “Information Science” article for today.

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Saracevic, T. “Information Science.” Edited by M. J Bates. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. New York: CRC Press, 2010. PDF.

August 27
History of Information Science

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Read pages 2577-2585 of the “Information Science” article for today.

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Saracevic, T. “Information Science.” Edited by M. J Bates. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. New York: CRC Press, 2010. PDF.

August 29
What Is Information?

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Lester, J., and W. C. Koehler. “Fundamental Concepts of Information.” In Fundamentals of Information Studies, 16–25. 2nd ed. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2007. PDF.
  2. Marchionini, Gary. “The Many Meanings of Information.” In Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities, 1–9. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. Morgan & Claypool, 2010. http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00306ED1V01Y201010ICR016.

September 3
Information Organization

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Glushko, Robert J. “1. Foundations for Organizing Systems.” In The Discipline of Organizing, edited by Robert J. Glushko, 3rd ed. O’Reilly, 2015.
    Reading tips

    Introduction to the concept of an organizing system and the five facets along which one can analyze organizing systems.

September 5
Information Organization

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Glushko, Robert J., Rachelle Annechino, Jess Hemerly, and Longhao Wang. “6. Categorization: Describing Resource Classes and Types.” In The Discipline of Organizing, edited by Robert J. Glushko, 3rd ed. O’Reilly, 2015.
    Reading tips

    What categories are, how they are used in information management, and how changes in the understanding of human cognitive processes have altered theories of categorization over the years.

September 10
Information Organization

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Glushko, Robert J., Jess Hemerly, Vivien Petras, Michael Manoochehri, Longhao Wang, Jordan Shedlock, and Daniel Griffin. “7. Classification: Assigning Resources to Categories.” In The Discipline of Organizing, 3rd ed. O’Reilly, 2015.
    Reading tips

    The terms “classification” and “categorization””are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. Having a set of categories is not sufficient to create a classification. A classification must be principled so that we know where to place new items and entities in accordance with our system.

September 12
Information Structures

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Morville, Peter, and Louis Rosenfeld. “Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata.” In Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2006. PDF.

September 17
Information Structures: XML

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Glushko, Robert J. “XML Foundations.” In Document Engineering, 42-72. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~glushko/DocumentEngineeringBookDraft/DEBook/ch2_FINAL.pdf.

September 19
Information Structures: Relational Databases

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Roman, Steven. “Introduction.” In Access Database Design and Programming, 3–10. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2002. PDF.
  2. Roman, Steven. “The Entity-Relationship Model of a Database.” In Access Database Design and Programming, 11–17. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2002. PDF.

September 24
Information Structures: Relational Databases

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Roman, Steven. “Implementing Entity-Relationship Models.” In Access Database Design and Programming, 18–29. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2002. PDF.

September 26
Search & Retrieval

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Croft, W. Bruce, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman. “Search Engines and Information Retrieval.” In Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, 1–12. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2010. PDF.

September 26
Meta-reflection #1 due

October 1
Midterm Exam #1

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “For Students Taking Tests.” In Sakai: Tests & Quizzes, 2011. PDF.

October 1
Midterm Exam #1 due

October 3
Search & Retrieval

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Croft, W. Bruce, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman. “Architecture of a Search Engine.” In Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, 13–29. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2010. PDF.

October 8
Search & Retrieval: Indexing

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Smucker, Mark D. “Information Representation.” In Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval, edited by Ian Ruthven and Diane Kelly, 77–93. London: Facet Pub., 2011. PDF.

October 10
Search & Retrieval: Retrieval Models

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Croft, W. Bruce, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman. “Retrieval Models.” In Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, 233–241. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2010. PDF.

October 15
Search & Retrieval: Networks

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Easley, David, and Jon Kleinberg. “Overview.” In Networks, crowds, and markets: reasoning about a highly connected world, 1–20. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch01.pdf.
  2. Easley, David, and Jon Kleinberg. “Graphs.” In Networks, crowds, and markets: reasoning about a highly connected world, 23–46. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch02.pdf.

October 17
Fall break

October 22
The Structure of the Web

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Easley, David, and Jon Kleinberg. “The Structure of the Web.” In Networks, crowds, and markets: reasoning about a highly connected world, 375–395. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch13.pdf.

October 24
Web Search

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Easley, David, and Jon Kleinberg. “Link Analysis and Web Search.” In Networks, crowds, and markets: reasoning about a highly connected world, 397–495. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch14.pdf.
    Reading tips

    You can skip section the last part of section 14.3 (pages 409–412) and section 14.6.

October 24
Meta-reflection #2 due

October 29
Midterm Exam #2

October 29
Midterm Exam #2 due

October 31
Information Needs & Behaviors

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Morville, Peter, and Louis Rosenfeld. “User Needs and Behaviors.” In Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2006. PDF.

November 5
Ryan at ASIS&T Annual Meeting

November 7
Information Needs & Behaviors

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Read sections 3.1 to 3.4 for today.

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Hearst, Marti. “Models of the Information Seeking Process.” In Search User Interfaces. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/sui_ch3_models_of_information_seeking.html.

November 12
Information Needs & Behaviors

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Read sections 3.5 to 3.8 for today.

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Hearst, Marti. “Models of the Information Seeking Process.” In Search User Interfaces. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/sui_ch3_models_of_information_seeking.html.

November 14
Human-Computer Interaction

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Shneiderman, B., and C. Plaisant. “Usability of Interactive Systems.” In Designing the user interface: strategies for effective human-computer interaction. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Addison-Wesley, 2010. PDF.

November 19
Search User Interfaces

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Hearst, Marti. “The Design of Search User Interfaces.” In Search user interfaces. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/sui_ch1_design.html.

November 21
Information Ethics

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Bynum, Terrell. “Computer and Information Ethics.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta. Accessed January 10, 2013. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-computer/.

November 26
Information Policy

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πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Grimmelmann, James. “What to Do About Google?” Communications of the ACM 56, no. 9 (2013). http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/9/167145-what-to-do-about-google/.

November 28
Thanksgiving

December 3
Catch-up / Wrap-Up / Review / The Future

πŸ“– To read before this meeting:

  1. Friedman, Batya, and Helen Nissenbaum. “Bias in Computer Systems.” ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 14, no. 3 (July 1996): 330–347. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/230538.230561.

December 3
Meta-reflection #3 due

December 10
Final exam due

The final exam is due 24 hours after you download it, or at 3PM sharp on Tuesday, December 10, whichever comes first. Note that when you download the exam, the download time is recorded, so it is easy to check whether you have kept the exam longer than 24 hours. So don’t download it until you are ready to start working on it!

December 10
Final Exam due