Instructor:   Terrence A. Brooks

 

Introduction and overview of information systems, system architectures, and retrieval models. Emphasis given to the role of users in the design, development, and evaluation of information retrieval and database management systems.

 

 

Weekly Use of This Course Website

Mid-quarter Student Evaluation

Some Interesting Statistics

Note that since our course lives in open Web space, the following counts reflect all Web activity on these pages, not just LIS 540 student activity. To get some sense of how our course is attracting Web traffic from everywhere, point your browser at October, November

The googlebot October November
# of page requests 523 417



Course Page October November
Use of the "Site index" 2074 1839
So what's a word? 336 164
Gerard Salton and Words 156 71
SGML, HTML, DHTML, etc 291 109
From Databases to Data Silos 232 69
Web as Information System 120 92
New Literary Genres 96 92
XML and Content Management 35 126
Search: Finding Lots of Stuff 33 152
Semantics 65 127
Eugene Garfield 24 39
Google 71 109
Guide for the Busy Student 803 613
Readings - The complete list 170 66
Deliverables - The complete list 316 326
Information is real 75 28
Information is perceptual 65 29
Information is art 46 31
Terry talks - the blog 668 667
The LIS 540 Community 1079 906