Foundations of Information Science

UNC SILS, INLS 201, Spring 2016

January 12
Introduction: What is Information Science?

January 14
History of Information Science

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

📖 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.

January 19
History of Information Science

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

📖 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.

January 21
What Is Information (Science)?

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📖 To read before this meeting:

  1. Furner, Jonathan. “Information Science Is Neither,” 2015. http://www.jonathanfurner.info/docs/LT-Furner2015rev.pdf.

January 21
Probe #1: What is information (science)? due

January 26
Ryan was sick

January 28
Information Organization

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📖 To read before this meeting:

  1. Levitin, Daniel. “The Inside History of Cognitive Overload.” In The Organized Mind, 3–36. New York, New York: Dutton, 2014. PDF.

February 2
Information Organization

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📖 To read before this meeting:

  1. Levitin, Daniel. “How Memory and Attention Work.” In The Organized Mind, 37–74. New York, New York: Dutton, 2014. PDF.

February 2
Probe #2: Levels of categorization due

February 4
Information Organization

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📖 To read before this meeting:

  1. Glushko, Robert J., Jess Hemerly, Vivien Petras, Michael Manoochehri, Longhao Wang, Jordan Shedlock, and Daniel Griffin. “7.2 Understanding Classification & 7.4 Faceted Classification.” In The Discipline of Organizing, 3rd ed. O’Reilly, 2015. PDF.

February 9
Information Structures

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📖 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.

February 9
Probe #3: Controlled vocabularies due

February 11
Information Structures: XML

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📖 To read before this meeting:

  1. Birnbaum, David J. “What is XML and why should humanists care? An even gentler introduction to XML”, January 5, 2012. http://dh.obdurodon.org/what-is-xml.xhtml.

February 16
Information Structures: Relational Databases

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📖 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.

February 18
Information Structures: Relational Databases

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Ryan will be out of town at the PHOIBOS2 workshop, so Patrick Golden will substitute.

📖 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.

February 23
Midterm #1 Review

February 23
Probe #4: Comparing relational databases and XML due

February 25
Midterm Exam #1

March 1
Search & Retrieval

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📖 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.

March 3
Search & Retrieval: Indexing

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📖 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.

March 8
Search & Retrieval: Retrieval Models

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📖 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.

March 10
Search & Retrieval: Networks

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📖 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.

March 15
Spring break

March 17
Spring break

March 22
The Structure of the Web

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📖 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.

March 24
Web Search

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📖 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.

March 29
Midterm Review

Please try to work through the practice problems over the weekend and come prepared with questions, either about the practice problems or any of the material we’ve covered during this unit.

March 31
Midterm Exam #2

April 5
Ryan was sick

April 7
Information Needs & Behaviors

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📖 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.

April 12
Human-Computer Interaction

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📖 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.

April 14
Search User Interfaces

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📖 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.

April 19
Information Ethics

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📖 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/.

April 19
Probe #5: Search user interface evaluation due

April 21
Information Policy

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📖 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/.

April 26
Catch-up / Wrap-Up / Review / The Future

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📖 To read before this meeting:

  1. Cegłowski, Maciej. “What Happens Next Will Amaze You.” presented at the Fremtidens Internet, Copenhagen, September 14, 2015. http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm.

May 3
Final exam

The final exam is scheduled for 8AM.