Weekly Schedule
Week One
- Read this: So what's a word?
- Read this: Orthography as a fundamental impediment to online information retrieval
- Do this: Death in 10,000 years!
An Entertainment Between Weeks One and Two
You've been working hard. Time to ease back and enjoy a "Cameo of an Information Scientist": Gerard Salton Finds Words. Unfortunately, this entertainment comes with a reading assignment!
Read this: Websearch: How the web has changed information retrieval
Week Two
- Read this: SGML, HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML, JSON, etc.
- Read this: No Bad Webpages: Reader Empowerment and the Web
- Read this: The Birth of XML: A Personal Recollection
- Do this: Help Martha Stewart decorate her data!
Nobody said that information architecture was chocolate pudding.
Week Three
- Read this: Storing Stuff: From Databases To Data Silos
- Read this: The Programmer as Navigator
- Do this: Help SpongeBob SquarePants square his data!
Week Four
- Read this: Webify! Spiders already do it
- Read this: World Brain
- Read this: Exploding Universe of Web Addresses
- Read this: The Semantic Web: A New Form of Web Content that is Meaningful to Computers will Unleash a Revolution of New Possibilities
- Read this: "The Semantic Web, universalist ambition and some lessons from librarianship"
- Do this: Calculate 6 degrees of Terry!
Week Five
- Read this: New systems = new genres
- Read this: Winners and Losers in the Global Research Village
- Read this: Thoughts on Project Gutenberg
- Do this: Find tools for readers!
Week Six
- Read this: Everybody does information
- Read this: XML and the Second-Generation Web
- Read this: XML in 10 points
- Read this: Microsoft Makes XML the File Format for the Next Version of Microsoft Office
- Do this: Put polar bears inside angle brackets!
Sometimes information retrieval can get you into a tight spot
Week Seven
- Read this: Finding lots of stuff
- Do this: Bush and Chirac parlay
Week Eight
- Read this: Does any of that stuff mean anything?
- Read this: Metadata Principles and Practicalities
- Read this: Death of a meta tag
- Read this: Metacrap
- Do this: Help the iSchool design a web service!
An Entertainment Between Weeks Eight and Nine
You've been working really hard. Time to ease back and enjoy a "Cameo of an Information Scientist": Eugene Garfield and Citation Indexing.
Week Nine
- Read this: Google
- Read this: Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web
- Read this: The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google
- Read this: The Attention Economy and the Net
- Read this: New Google Patent Gives Insights Into Ranking Algorithm
- Do this: Whack Google
Week Ten
Enough is enough, who needs a week ten?
For your amusement and enlightenment. Not recommended for the faint of heart, but of possible interest to anyone who will spend the rest of his life in the 21st Century
EPIC - Evolving Personalized Information Construct
Extra credit question: How does Googlezon illustrate information systems, architecture and retrieval?