All readings are available on the course eReserves site.  Each week has required and optional readings, for those who wish to explore the topic further or get different viewpoints.  A few readings are very technical or extensive, and you may just want to scan them as indicated to get a sense of their content.  You are expected to read the required chapters and articles BEFORE the class session in which we discuss them.

The required text for the course is:

• Taylor, Arlene G. The Organization of Information, 2^nd ed. Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004.

Readings from this book are indicated by the author's name and chapter at the beginning of each class session.

Thursday, January 4

Module 1a:  Course overview

• Course syllabus http://courses.washington.edu/imt530/syllabus.doc

Module 1b:  Nature and characteristics of information objects

• Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 1-3
• Buckland, M. (1997). What is a "Document"? Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(9), 804-809. <eReserves>
• Levy, D. (2001). Meditation on a receipt. Chapter 1 of Scrolling Forward. New York: Arcade Pub. <eReserves>

Tuesday, January 9

Module 2a:  Information systems

• Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 5
• Selamat, M.H. & J. Choudrie. (2004). The diffusion of tacit knowledge and its implications on information systems: The role of meta-abilities. Journal of Knowledge Management, 8(2), 128-139. <eReserves>
• Soergel, D. (1985). Chapter 5: The structure of information systems. <eReserves>
• (optional) Broder, A.Z. & A.C. Ciccolo. (2004). Towards the next generation of information search technology. IBM Systems Journal, 43(3), 451-454. <eReserves>

Thursday, January 11

Module 2b:  Modeling information objects and relationships

• Evans, M.P. et al. (2005 May/June). Search adaptations and the challenges of the Web. IEEE Internet Computing, 19-26. <eReserves>
• Qin, J. (2000). Representation and organization of information in the web space: From MARC to XML. Informing Science, 3(2), 83-87. <eReserves>
• (scan) Chen, P. (1976).  The Entity-Relationship Model--Toward a Unified View of Data.  ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1976, Pages 9 - 36  http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~chen/pdf/erd.pdf  <eReserves>
• (scan) Manola, F. (2004).  RDF Model Parts 1-2.2  http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/ <eReserves>
• (scan) Powell, A. (2005).  DCMI abstract model  http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model <eReserves>
• (optional) Smith, T.R., S. Geffner, & J. Gottsegen. (1996). A general framework for the meta-information and catalogs in digital libraries. http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/ieee/ieee.html. <eReserves>

Tuesday, January 16

Module 3a:  Ontologies

• Maedche, A. et al. (2003 March/April). Ontologies for enterprise knowledge management. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 26-33. <eReserves>
• Noy, N. & McGuiness, D. (n.d.). Ontology development 101: A guide to creating your first ontology. Retrieved December 16, 2005 from Stanford University, Deborah L. McGuiness web site: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontology101/ontology101-noy-mcguinness.html. <eReserves>
• Uschold, M. (2003).  Where Are the Semantics in the Semantic Web? AI Magazine, Vol 24; Part 3, pages 25-36. <eReserves>
• (optional) Kim, H.H. (2005). ONTOWEB: Implementing an ontology-based web retrieval system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(11), 1167-1176. <eReserves>
• (optional) Kim, H.M. & M. Biehl. (2005). Exploiting the small-worlds of the Semantic Web to connect heterogeneous, local ontologies. Information Technology and Management, 6, 89-96. <eReserves>
• (optional) Qin, J. & S. Paling. (2001). Converting a controlled vocabulary into an ontology: the case of GEM. Information Research, 6(2). <eReserves>
• (optional) Staab, S., R. Studer, H.P. Schnurr, & Y. Sure. (2001 January/February). Knowledge processes and ontologies. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 26-34. <eReserves>
• (optional) Stephens, L.M. & M.N. Huhns. (2001 September/October). Consensus ontologies: Reconciling the semantics of web pages and agents. IEEE Internet Computing, 92-95. <eReserves>

Thursday, January 18

Module 3b:  Metadata standards and schemas

• Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 6
• Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 4
• Burnett, K. (1999). A Comparison of the Two Traditions of Metadata Development. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(13), 1209-1217. <eReserves>
• DCMI Metadata Terms. (2006).  http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ <eReserves>
• (optional) Bodoff, D. et al. (2005). "Web Metadata Standards: Observations and Prescriptions," IEEE Software, vol. 22, no. 1, 2005, pp. 78-85.  <eReserves>
• (optional) NISO. (2004). Understanding metadata standards. NISO Press.  <eReserves>

Tuesday, January 23

Module 4a:  Application profiles

• Clayphan, Robina; Guenther, Rebecca, 2004.  Library Application Profile.  Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.  http://dublincore.org/documents/library-application-profile/  <eReserves>
• Heery, Rachel; Patel, Manjula, 2000. Application profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas.  Ariadne Issue 25.  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/app-profiles/  <eReserves>
• Hodgins, W., et al., 2002. "Metadata principles and practicalities." D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html? <eReserves>

Thursday, January 25

Module 4b:  Description and access

• Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 7 
• Hammond, T.  RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules:  PRISM   http://nurture.nature.com/rss/modules/mod_prism.html  <eReserves>
• (optional) The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR. (2005). RDA: Resource Description and Access Part I - Constituency Review of December 2005 Draft.  http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/docs/5rda-part1.pdf.  <eReserves>

Tuesday, January 30

Module 5a:  Authority control and Encoding Schemes

• Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 8.   
• AGLS Encoding Schemes.  http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/encoding_schemes.html  <eReserves>
• AskDCMI.  Encoding Schemes.  http://askdcmi.askvrd.org/default.aspx?cat=1732
• Borbinha, J. (2004). Authority control in the world of metadata. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 38(3), 105-116. <eReserves>
• Gorman, M. (2004). Authority control in the context of bibliographic control in the electronic environment. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 38(3), 11-22. <eReserves>
• (optional) Ayres,  F. (2001).  Authority Control Simply Does Not Work. Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly 32(2), 2001, pp 49-59. <eReserves>

Thursday, February 1

Module 5b:  Subject analysis and Subject Indexing

• Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 9. 
• Layne, S. (1994).  Some Issues in the Indexing of Images. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(8), 583-588. <eReserves>
• Mai, J. (2004). The role of documents, domains and decisions in indexing. Advances in Knowledge Organization, 9, 207-213. <eReserves>
• Rowley, J. (1994). The Controlled versus natural indexing languages debate revisited. Journal of Information Science, 20(2), 108-119.  <eReserves>
• (scan) ISO (1985).  ISO Standard 5963:  Documentation—Methods for Examining Documents, Determining their Subjects, and Selecting Index Terms. <eReserves>
• (optional) Lakoff, George. 1987. Women, Fire and Dangerous Things:  What Categories Reveal About the Mind. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. <eReserves>
• (optional) Mai, J. (2000). Deconstructing the indexing process. Advances in Librarianship, 23, 269-298. <eReserves>
• (optional) Sykes, J. (2001). The value of indexing. A White Paper Prepared for Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company. <eReserves>
• (optional) Wilson, P. (1968). Chapter 5: Subjects and the Sense of Position  <eReserves>

Tuesday, February 6

Module 6a:  Introduction to controlled vocabularies

• Buckland, M. (1999). Vocabulary as a central concept in Library and Information Science. Preprint of paper published as Vocabulary as a Central Concept in Library and Information Science in: Digital Libraries: Interdisciplinary Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS3, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 23-26 May 1999). Ed. by T. Arpanac et al. Zagreb: Lokve, 3-12.  <eReserves>
• Rosenfeld, L. & P. Morville. (2002). Chapter 9, "Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata" in Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. 2^nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. (p. 176-208). [Available as e-book here] <eReserves>
• (optional) McCulloch, E. (2004). Multiple terminologies: An obstacle to information retrieval. Library Review, 53 (5/6), 297-300. <eReserves>
• (optional) Will, L.  (2005).  Glossary of terms relating to thesauri and other forms of structured vocabulary for information retrieval.  http://www.willpowerinfo.co.uk/glossary.htm.  <eReserves>

Thursday, February 8

Module 6b:  Creating controlled vocabularies

Mid-term assignment due at beginning of class

Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 10
Leise, Fred; Fast, Karl; Steckel, Mike. (2003). Creating a Controlled Vocabulary.   Boxes and Arrows.  http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/creating_a_controlled_vocabulary <eReserves>
Wodkte, C. (2002). Mind your phraseology! Digital Web Magazine, http://www.digital-web.com/articles/mind_your_phraseology/.  <eReserves>
Zeng, M.L. (2005). Construction of controlled vocabularies: A primer. NISO. http://www.slis.kent.edu/~mzeng/Z3919/index.htm. <eReserves>
(optional) Aitchison, J., A. Gilchrist & D. Bawden. (2000). Thesaurus Construction and Use: a Practical Manual, 4th ed. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn. <eReserves>
(optional) NISO. (2005). ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005:  Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri. NISO Press.  http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-19-2005.pdf.  <eReserves>

Tuesday, February 13

Module 7a:  Social Tagging

Golder, S.A. & B.A. Huberman. (2006). The structure of collaborative tagging systems. Journal of Information Science, Vol. 32, No. 2, 198-208. <eReserves>
Guy, Marieke; Tonkin, Emma. (2006). "Folksonomies: tidying up tags?" D-Lib Magazine 12(1). doi:10.1045/january2006-guy. <eReserves>
Peterson, Elaine. (2006). "Beneath the Metadata. Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy". D-Lib Magazine, November 2006, Volume 12 Number 11.  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/peterson/11peterson.html <eReserves>
Shirky, Clay.  (2005). Ontology is overrated.  http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html  <eReserves>
(optional) Cutrell, E., Robbins, D.C., Dumais, S.T. & Sarin, R. (2006). Fast, flexible filtering with Phlat - Personal search and organization made easy. In Proceedings of CHI'06, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Montréal, April 2006), ACM press, 261-270. <eReserves>
(optional) Damianos, Laurie; Griffith, John; Cuomo, Donna.  Onomi: Social Bookmarking on a Corporate Intranet. (2006).  WWW2006 Tagging Workshop. http://www.rawsugar.com/www2006/28.pdf. <eReserves>
(optional) Millen, David R; Feinberg, Jonathan; Kerr, Bernard. (2006). Dogear: Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise.   CHI 2006 Proceedings • Social Computing 1 April 22-27, 2006 • Montréal, Québec, Canada <eReserves>
(optional) Weinberger, D. (2006). "Tagging and why it matters." http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-0. <eReserves>

Thursday, February 15

Module 7b:  Semantic factoring and semantic relationships

• Clarke, S. (2001). Thesaural Relationships. Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge, Ed. by C.A. Bean & R. Green, 37-52.  <eReserves>
• Svenonius, E. (2005). Design of Controlled Vocabularies. in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 1 (1), 822-838. Retrieved December 29, 2005, from http://www.dekker.com/sdek/abstract~db=enc~content=a713532081 <eReserves>
• (optional) Kwasnik, B.H. (1999). The role of classification in knowledge representation and discovery. Library Trends, 48(1), 22-47. <eReserves>
• (optional) Shearer, J. A. (2004). A Practical Exercise in Building a Thesaurus. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 37(3/4), 35-56. <eReserves>
• (optional) Soergel, D. (1985). Chapter 14: Index language structure I: Conceptual. <eReserves>

Tuesday, February 20

Module 8a:  Facet analysis

• Spiteri, L. (1998). A simplified model for facet analysis. The Information Architecture Institute. <eReserves>
• Steckel, Mike.  2002.  Ranganathan for IAs.  Boxes and Arrows.  http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/ranganathan_for_ias <eReserves>
• Yee, K.P., K. Swearingen, K. Li, & M. Hearst. (2003). Faceted metadata for image search and browsing. CHI 2003, April 5-10, 2003. <eReserves>
• (optional) Denton, W. (2003). Putting facets on the Web: An annotated bibliography. http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-biblio.html. <eReserves>
• (optional) Vickery, B.C. (1960). Faceted classification: A guide to construction and use of special schemes. London: Aslib. <eReserves>

Thursday, February 22

Module 8b:  Practical example of metadata in action

• Witten, I. H. and Bainbridge, D. (2001). Building A Digital Library, Chapter 1, Section 4. <eReserves>
• Witten, I. H. and Bainbridge, D. (2005). Creating Digital Library Collections with Greenstone. Library Hi Tech Volume: 23 Issue: 4 Page: 541 – 560. <eReserves>
• (optional) Greenstone Wiki.  Especially: The Greenstone Tutorial Exercise, Installing Greenstone at http://greenstone.sourceforge.net/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/en/install_greenstone.htm <eReserves>, and  The Greenstone Example Collections - http://greenstone.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Example_collections <eReserves>

Tuesday, February 27

Module 9a:  Construction and use of classification schemes

• Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 11
• Bertolucci, K. (2003). Happiness is taxonomy: Four structures for Snoopy. Information Outlook, 7(3), 36-44. <eReserves>
• (optional)  Koch, T. and Day, M. (1997). The role of classification schemes in Internet resource description and discovery, DESIRE D3.2 (3).  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/classification/classification.pdf. <eReserves>

Thursday, March 1

Module 9b:  Issues in classification

• Gladwell, M. (2006). Troublemakers: What pit bulls can teach us about profiling. The New Yorker, February 6, 2006. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060206fa_fact. <eReserves>
• Gould, S. (1983). What, if anything, is a zebra? Ch. 28 of Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections on Natural History. New York: Norton, 355-365. <eReserves>
• Mai, J. (2004). Classification in context: Relativity, reality, and representation. Knowledge Organization, 31(1), 39-48. <eReserves>
• (optional) Mai, J. (2004) Classification of the Web: Challenges and Inquiries. Knowledge Organization. 31 (2): 92-97. <eReserves>

Tuesday, March 6

Module 10a:  Information displays and arrangement

• Taylor, A. (2004).  Chapter 12 
• Ceglar, A. et al. (2005). Visualizing hierarchical associations. Knowledge and Information Systems, 8, 257-275.  <eReserves>
• Dürsteler, J. (2005).  Inf@Vis!:  The Digital Magazine of InfoVis.net.  http://www.infovis.net/index.php?lang=2  <eReserves>
• (optional) Ziade, R. & M. Kittredge. (n.d.). Information objects: Applying cognitive load theory & object-oriented thinking to information design. ARC90 White Paper. <eReserves>

Thursday, March 8

Module 10b:  Course wrapup and closing discussion

  Final Assignment due at beginning of class