DATE	ASSIGNMENT
	This readings for this class were originally based on INFO 202: Information Organization and Retrieval, taught by Robert Glushko, at UC - Berkeley. Mr. Glushko holds the copyright to his reading list. The original syllabus can be found at: http://rosetta.sims.berkeley.edu:8085/sylvia/f07/view/202.complete
August 28	Course Setup, Key Concepts & Introduction David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous, Chapters 1, 2 & 3 Buckland, Michael. "What is a 'document'?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48 (9) (September 1997). [http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.html] Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel," in: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings"[http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html] :: Optional :: Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, and Roger Lueder."MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything" Communications of the ACM (January 2006) [ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2006-23.pdf] (read only the main article 1 - 12, the rest is appendices, if you're interested)
September 4	Thinking About Information David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous, Chapters 4, 5, & 6 Michael Reddy, "Conduit Metaphor: A Case of Frame Conflict in Langauge About Language (In Andrew Ortony (ed.), Metaphor and Thought) (skip "semantic pathology" from 176-184)" [BlackBoard] Marcia Bates."Fundamental Forms of Information" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 57(8) (June 2006) [http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/articles/NatRep_info_11m_050514.html] Buckland, Michael. "Information As Thing." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 42(5) (June 1991). [http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/thing.html] :: Optional :: Star, S.L. & Griesemer, J.R., "Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39’" (1989): in Social Studies of Science, vol. 19, pp. 387-420 [On-Campus Link]
September 11	Information Organization vs. Retrieval Weinberger: 7, 8, & 9 Elaine Svenonius, The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, Chapter 2 [Blackboard] Assignment 1: Assigned
September 18         Group 1	Concepts & Categories George W. Furnas, Thomas K. Landauer, Louis M. Gomez, and Susan T. Dumais. "The Vocabulary Problem in Human-System Communication" Communications of the ACM, 30(11), 964-971 (1987). [http://www.si.umich.edu/~furnas/Papers/vocab.paper.pdf] George Lakoff. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. "(preface through p 67)" [BlackBoard] Gould, Stephen J., "What, If Anything, Is a Zebra?" In: Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes: Further Reflections on Natural History. 1983. New York: Norton. p. 355-365 [BlackBoard].
September 25       Assignment 1 DUE Group 2	Controlled Names and Controlled Vocabularies Karl Fast, Fred Liese, and Mike Steckel, "What is a controlled vocabulary?" [http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/what_is_a_controlled_vocabulary_] Karl Fast, Fred Liese, and Mike Steckel, "Creating a controlled vocabulary" [http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/creating_a_controlled_vocabulary] Glushko & McGrath; Chapter 12 [http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~glushko/DocumentEngineeringBookDraft/DEBook/ch12_FINAL.pdf] Examples of Controlled Vocabularies and Markup Schemas Assignment 2: Assigned
October 2           Assignment 2 DUE Group 3	Metadata and Metadata Standards "Understanding Metadata" [http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf] Diane Hillman, "Using Dublin Core" [http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/] Diane Hillman, "Using Dublin Core - The Elements" [http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/elements.shtml] Betty Furrie, "Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging" [http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/] What is FRBR? A Conceptual Model for the Bibliographic Universe (2004) http://www.loc.gov/cds/FRBR.html :: Optional :: Cory Doctorow, "Metacrap: Putting the torch to the seven straw men of the meta-utopia" Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report. UBCIM Publications, New Series, vol. 19. Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1998. Available at: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf Assignment 3: Assigned
October 9     Assignment 3 DUE Group 4	Faceted Classification Ranganathan, S.R. (1962) Elements of Library Classification. Bombay, India: Asia Publishing House. pp.9-44 [Blackboard] William Denton, "How to make a faceted classification and put it on the web" [http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-web-howto.pdf] Yee, Swearington, Li, and Hearst, "Faceted metadata for image search and browsing" [http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/papers/flamenco-chi03.pdf] Facetmap : http://facetmap.com/
October 16       Group 5	Describing Non-Text Materials Patricia Harping "The Language of Images: Enhancing Access to Images by Applying Metadata Schemas and Structured Vocabularies. Introduction to Art Image Access.(Martha Baca, Ed) "[http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intro_aia/harpring.pdf] Mor Naaman, Susumu Harada, QianUing Wang, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Andreas Paepcke"Context Data in Geo-Referenced Digital Photo Collections " [On-Campus Link] Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (2004) [at: http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/2004-43]
October 23           Group 6 & 7	XML: Documents and Document Models Glushko and McGrath, "Document Engineering, Chapter 2, XML Foundations" [http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~glushko/DocumentEngineeringBookDraft/DEBook/ch2_FINAL.pdf] Lisa de Larios-Heiman and Carolyn Cracraft, "SylViA: The Syllabus Viewing Application (Overview and The SylViA Data Model)" [http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/sylvia/docs/reports/final_report.html] Tim Bray, "On Language Creation" XML 2005. [http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml05/ship/175/xml2005.HTML] W3C Schools: XML Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp W3 Schools: XML Examples: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_examples.asp W3 Schools: XML Quiz: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_quiz.asp Assignment 4 : Assigned Assignment 5: Assigned
October 30     Assignment 4 DUE	Databases and Data Models Philip Greenspun, "Introduction (part of SQL for Web Nerds)" [http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/] Ian Gilfillan."Introduction to Relational Databases" Database Journal (Note: You are encouraged to follow the links at the end of this article and explore further, especially "Simple SQL") (24 June 2002) [http://www.databasejournal.com/sqletc/article.php/1469521] Ian Gilfillan. "Database Normalization" Database Journal (22 March 2002) [http://www.databasejournal.com/sqletc/article.php/26861_1474411_1] W3 Schools: SQL Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp
November 6           Assignment 5 DUE Group 8	Ontologies & The Semantic Web Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila, "The Semantic Web" Scientific American (May 2001). [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21&] Clay Shirky "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags" [http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html Merholtz, P. (2005). Clay Shirky's Viewpoints are Overrated. Peterme.com. blog, . Retrieved August 18, 2008, from http://www.peterme.com/archives/000558.html. Smith, G. (2005). Ontology is Overrated follow-up (Atomiq). Atomiq: A Weblog by Gene Smith. Blog, . Retrieved August 18, 2008, from http://atomiq.org/archives/2005/08/ontology_is_overrated_followup.html. Catherine Marshall and Frank Shipman. "Which Semantic Web?" ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (2003). [http://csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/ht03-sw-4.pdf] Catherine Marshall. "Taking a Stand on the Semantic Web" http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/mc-semantic-web.html :: Optional :: Knowledge@Wharton, "What Is the Next Big Thing on the Web? It May Be a Small, Simple Thing -- Microformats" [ http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1247 ]
November 13           Group 9	Distributed (Collaborative, Social) Description Adam Mathes, "Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata"[http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html] Morgan Ames & Mor Naaman, "Why We Tag: Motivations for Annotation in Mobile and Online Media," CHI 2007 [http://yahooresearchberkeley.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/chi2007-Ames-whyWeTag.pdf] Golder, S. A., & Huberman, B. A. (2006). Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems. Journal of Information Science, 32(2), 198-208. doi: 10.1177/0165551506062337. http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/tags/tags.pdf Marlow, C., Naaman, M., Boyd, D., & Davis, M. (2006). HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read. In Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (pp. 31-40). Odense, Denmark: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1149941.1149949. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1149941 Assignment 6: Assigned
November 20       Assignment 6 DUE Group 10	Personal Information Management Deborah Barreau & Bonnie Nardi (1995). "Finding and Reminding." ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 27(3) July 1995. [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=221307] (if you're on campus you'll be able to access the article from this link) David Kirsh."A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload. (pages 19-33 [Part 1 of Article])" Intellectica. [http://interruptions.net/literature/Kirsh-Intellectica00-30.pdf] Catherine C. Marshall (2008). "Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1 - Four Challenges from the Field" D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2008. [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/marshall/03marshall-pt1.html] Catherine C. Marshall (2008). "Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 2 - Implications for Services, Applications, and Institutions" D-Lib Magazine, 14 (3/4) March/April 2008. [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/marshall/03marshall-pt2.html]
November 27	Thanksgiving Holiday
December 4	No CLASS / Dream Job Papers Due Friday December 5 at Midnight
December 8	Final Presentations: Dream Job Presentations (12:30 - 3)
This readings and assignments for this class are based on INFO 202: Information Organization and Retrieval, taught by Robert Glushko, at Berkeley. Mr. Glushko holds the copyright to this information. The original syllabus can be found at: http://rosetta.sims.berkeley.edu:8085/sylvia/f07/view/202.complete

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