dLIS 540 Information Systems, Architecture and Retrieval
Autumn 2007

Who's reading what?

Readings and Readers

If your name doesn't appear below, send me an email.

What it means to be a "reader".

Note that the readings for our course have been distributed to groups of students. These students will be the "official" readers for our class for their given reading. Official readers should go to our threaded chat Catalyst tool and start a discussion thread for their assigned reading. The beginning of the discussion thread should be one or more entries that explain what the reading is about and how it may relate to any of our essay topics.

Other students, puzzled by the reading, will be able to post queries about the reading to the discussion thread for that particular reading. The official readers will respond, clarifying what their reading is about, etc.



Bachman, C."The Programmer as Navigator"
  • Alarcon
  • Arnold
  • Brown
  • Agan-Mckinney
Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J., and Lassila, O. "The Semantic Web: A New Form of Web Content that is Meaningful to Computers will Unleash a Revolution of New Possibilities"
  • Campbell
  • Dunn
  • Glusker
  • Bair
Bosak, J."The Birth of XML: A Personal Recollection"
  • Grier
  • Hammer
  • Harrison
  • Bowers
Bosak, J. and Bray, T. "XML and the Second-Generation Web"
  • Hill
  • Jeffries
  • Kirkland
  • Burnett
Brooks, T.A. The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google
  • Larson
  • Hall
  • Metse
  • Devictoria
Brooks, T.A. No Bad Webpages: Reader Empowerment and the Web
  • Ojeda
  • Olson
  • Parker
  • Dunn
Brooks, T.A."Orthography as a fundamental impediment to online information retrieval".
  • Pauw
  • Pitts
  • Por
  • Hasler
Brooks, T.A. "The Semantic Web, universalist ambition and some lessons from librarianship"
  • Schlicht
  • Sease
  • Sliger
  • Johnson, D
Brooks, T.A."Websearch: How the web has changed information retrieval"
  • Strack
  • Tesoriero
  • Jeffries
  • Read
Brooks, T.A."Watch this: Webified metadata"
  • Kirkland
  • Larson
  • Hall
  • Richardson
Doctorow, C. "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia"
  • Vecchione
  • Wallis
  • Warden
  • Morales
Duval, E., Hodgins, W., Sutton, S., Weibel, S.L. "Metadata Principles and Practicalities", D-Lib Magazine, April 2002
  • West
  • Williford
  • Woytek
  • D'Elia
"Exploding Universe of Web Addresses"
  • Anderson
  • Bautista
  • Ellerbee
  • Hubbard
Ginsparg, P. Winners and Losers in the Global Research Village
  • Ellis
  • Fenger
  • James
  • Stilin
Goldhaber, M. H. "The Attention Economy and the Net"
  • Jenkins
  • Johnson, S
  • Lettenmaier
  • Mower
Hart, M.S. "Thoughts on Project Gutenberg"
  • Lund
  • Massero
  • McCrory
  • Bos
Heraghty, M. "New Google Patent Gives Insights Into Ranking Algorithm"
  • Phillips
  • Pinsonault
  • Robins
  • Fitzgerald
"Microsoft Makes XML the File Format for the Next Version of Microsoft Office"
  • Seager
  • Shane
  • Sneed
  • Stubee
O'Neill, E.T., Lavoie, B.F. and Bennettt, R. "Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web" D-Lib Magazine, April 2003
  • Wilker
  • Wilson
  • Alarcon
  • Wise
Sullivan, D. "Death of a Meta Tag"
  • Arnold
  • Brown
  • Campbell
  • Hard
Wells, H.G."World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia"
  • Dunn
  • Glusker
  • Grier
  • Wood
XML in 10 points
  • Hammer
  • Harrison
  • Hill
  • Paul