Weekly Schedule
Week One
- Read this: So what's a word?
- Read this: Orthography as a fundamental impediment to online information retrieval
- Do this: Write a poem!
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, 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!
Week Three
- Read this: Storing Stuff: From Databases To Data Silos
- Read this: The Programmer as Navigator
- Read this: The Relational Model in Information Retrieval
- 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!
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 Amazon 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?