dLIS 540 Information Systems, Architecture and Retrieval
Autumn 2007
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 in a tight spot.
Week Seven
Read this:
Finding lots of stuff
Do this:
Improve
Terry Brooks' Search Engine!
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
Read this:
Watch this: Webified metadata
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