INFO 202 : Information Organization and Retrieval

Administrivia

Teaching Team 

Professor Robert Glushko

Office Hours: Monday 11:00am-12:00pm Tuesday 12:00pm-1:00pm 313 South Hall

Teaching Assistant Matt Earp

Teaching Assistant Yiming Liu

Course Description

This course introduces the intellectual foundations of information organization and retrieval: conceptual modeling, semantic representation, vocabulary and metadata design, classification, and standardization, as well as information organization and retrieval practices, technology, and applications, including computational processes for analyzing information in both textual and non-textual formats. Students will learn how information organization and retrieval is carried out by professionals, authors, and users; by individuals in association with other individuals, and as part of the business processes in an enterprise and across enterprises.


This is a required introductory course for incoming School of Information masters students, integrating perspectives and best practices from a wide range of disciplines.


Students are also required to attend a one-hour small section meeting each week starting the second week of the semester (M 1-2 or T 11-12)

Course Information

School of Information INFO 202

Course Dates: August 27 to December 10, 2007

Lecture Schedule: Monday 9:00am-10:30am Wednesday 9:00am-10:30am in 202 South Hall

Units: 4

Grading Option: Letter Grade only

Course Work

August 29 : Wednesday

2. How to Think About Information 

Resources

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Required Reading

Weinberger, Chapters 4, 5, & 6

Elaine Svenonius, The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, Preface & Chapter 1

September 5 : Wednesday

3. Information Organization {and,or,vs} Retrieval 

September 10 : Monday

4. Concepts and Categories 

Resources

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Required Reading

George Lakoff, "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things," Chapters 1 & 2 (pages 5-57)

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)

September 19 : Wednesday

7. Classification 

September 24 : Monday

8. Metadata for Multimedia 

Resources

Lecture Notes (html)

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Required Reading

Patricia Harpring, "The Language of Images: Enhancing Access to Images by Applying Metadata Schemas and Structured Vocabularies"

Kai-Ping Yee, Kirsten Swearington, Kevin Li, & Marti Hearst, "Faceted metadata for image search and browsing"

Mor Naaman, Susumu Harada, QianUing Wang, Hector Garcia-Molina, & Andreas Paepcke, "Context Data in Geo-Referenced Digital Photo Collections," Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (2004)

Marc Davis, "Editing Out Video Editing," IEEE Multimedia (April-June 2003 )

October 15 : Monday

14. Personal Information Management 

Resources

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Required Reading

Whittaker, S. & Sidner, C. (1996). Email overload: Exploring personal information management of email. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM Press, NY, 276-283,

David Karger & William Jones, "Data Unification in Personal Information Management," Communications of the ACM (January 2006)

Mary Czerwinski, Douglas W. Gage, Jim Gemmell, Catherine C. Marshall, Manuel A. Prez-Quiones, Meredith M. Skeels, & Tiziana Catarci, "Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing and abundant storage," Communications of the ACM (January 2006)

David Kirsh, "A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload," Intellectica (2000)

October 17 : Wednesday

15. Institutional Categorization 

Resources

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Required Reading

Maureen Breitenberg, The ABC's of Standards-related Activities in the United States, NBSIR 87-3576, May 1987

Lois Chan & Marcia Zeng, "Metadata Interoperability and Standardization – A Study of Methodology Part I. Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level (skip or skim "Sources and References")

Michael Stonebraker & Joseph Hellerstein, "Content Integration for E-Business, Proceedings of 2001 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data

October 22 : Monday

October 24 : Wednesday

17. Institutional / Enterprise Information Management [2] 

Resources

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Required Reading

Larry Downes, Chapter 4, "The Information Supply Chain," The Strategy Machine,

Lauren Horwitz, "Bagging Market Share with IT," CIO Decisions, February 2007.

Jenna Burrell, Tim Brooke, & Richard Beckwith, "Vineyard Computing: Sensor Networks in Agricultural Production," Pervasive Computing, January-March 2004.

Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi, & Marcia Kaufman, Chapter 13, "Where's the Data?, Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies, 2006

Anant Jhingran, Enterprise Information Mashups: Integrating Information, Simply. VLDB '06.

October 29 : Monday

18. MIDTERM EXAM 

Resources

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October 31 : Wednesday

19. Information Architecture 

Resources

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Required Reading

Mano Marks & Kelly Snow, "User Interface Design Patterns: Strengths, Challenges and Future of Design Patterns," 2006.

Jennifer Tidwell, Designing Interfaces, "Chapter 2, Organizing the Content: Information Architecture and Application Structure."

Jennifer Tidwell, Designing Interfaces, "Chapter 4, Organizing the Page: Layout of Page Elements"

Globalization, Localization, Internationalization and Translation

November 5 : Monday

20. The Searcher's Perspective & User Interfaces for IR 

Resources

Lecture Notes (html)

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Required Reading

Marti Hearst draft of Chapter 2, "Search User Interfaces" for 2nd edition of Modern Information Retrieval

November 19 : Monday

23. Dimensionality Reduction & Latent Semantic Analysis 

Resources

Lecture Notes (html)

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Required Reading

Susan Dumais, "Data-driven approaches to information access," Cognitive Science, 27(3), 491-524 (2003)

Clara Yu, John Cuadrado, Maciej Caglowski, & J. Scott Payne, "Patterns in Unstructured Data," 2002 (read from "Latent Semantic Indexing" through "Applications of LSI")

November 28 : Wednesday

26. Multimedia Search & Retrieval 

Resources

Lecture Notes (pdf)

Required Reading

Christine Sundt, "The Image User and the Search for Images,"Introduction to Art Image Access (Martha Baca, Ed)

"Bridging the Semantic Gap in Content Management Systems: Computational Media Aesthetics" Chitra Dorai and Svetha Venkatesh [Reader] Proceedings of COSIGN 2001: Computational Semiotics

"Multimedia Information Retrieval: What is it, and why isnt anyone using it?" Alejandro Jaimes, Mike Christel, Sbastien Gilles, Ramesh Sarukkai, and Wei-Ying Ma [Reader] Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGMM (2005)

December 3 : Monday

27. Applied IR & Natural Language Processing [1] 

Resources

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Required Reading

Adam Kilgarriff & Gregory Grefenstette, "Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus," Computational Linguistics 29(3) (2003)

Gary Stix, "The Elusive Goal of Machine Translation," Scientific American (March 2006)

Weiguo Fan, Linda Wallace, Stephanie Rich, & Zhongju Zhang, "Tapping the Power of Text Mining," Communications of the ACM, September 2006

Paul Graham, "A Plan for Spam" August 2002

December 5 : Wednesday

28. Applied IR & Natural Language Processing [2] / Alumni Guests 

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Required Reading

December 10 :

29. Course Review & Wrap-Up 

December 12 :

30. FINAL EXAM 

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last updated on 25 September 2007 by RJG