INLS 101-001 Foundations of Information Science

January 12: Introduction and Overview

January 14: Evolution of Information Science

• Saracevic, T. (1991). Information science: Origin, evolution and relations. Proceedings of CoLIS, 20-36.

January 19: What is information?

• Meadow, C. T. & Yuan, W. (1997). Measuring the impact of information: Defining the concepts. Information Processing and Management, 33(6), 697-714.
• Buckland, M. K. (1991). Information as thing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 351-360.

January 21: What is information?

• Brown, J. S. & Duguid, P. (2000). Chapter 1: Limits to Information. The Social Life of Information (p.11-34). Excerpt in Educause Review, Nov-Dec 2000, p. 74-89, available online: http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm00/articles006/erm006_excerpt.pdf

January 26: Information Representation and Organization

• Cohen, Adam. (31 May 2009). The lord justice hath ruled: Pringles are potato chips. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01mon4.html
• Glushko, R. J., Maglio, P., Matlock, T., & Barsalou, L. (2008). Categorization in the wild. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(4), 129-135.
• READ Section 2 (pp. 7-10), SKIM other sections to aid understanding as necessary: Clark, A. (1998). Magic words: how language augments human computation. In P. Carruthers & J. Boucher (Eds.), Language and thought: Interdisciplinary themes (pp. 162-183). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/staff/clark/pubs/magic.pdf
• OPTIONAL: Video short: Pluto Controversy: The Back Story http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10245. [Related to: NPR Science Friday with guest Neil DeGrasse Tyson. (13 February 2009).

January 28: Information Representation and Organization

• Allen, R. (2000-2009). Information: A Fundamental Construct. Chapter 2: Knowledge Representation (Category-based models for knowledge representation). http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ballen/ISS/chp02.pdf

Feb 02: Information Representation and Organization

• Leise, F., Fast, K., & Steckel, F. (2002-2003). Boxes and Arrows online series:
• All about facets & controlled vocabularies: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/all_about_facets_controlled_vocabularies
• What is a controlled vocabulary?: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/what_is_a_controlled_vocabulary_
• Creating a controlled vocabulary: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/creating_a_controlled_vocabulary
• Synonym rings and authority files: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/synonym_rings_and_authority_files

Feb 04: Information Representation and Organization

• Furner, J. (2010). Folksonomies. In M. J. Bates (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (3rd edition), (pp. 4512-4519). New York, NY: CRC Press.
• Homework Due: Information Representation and Organization

February 09: Search and Retrieval

• Manning, C. D., Raghavan, P., & Schutze, H. (2008). Introduction to Information Retrieval. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. (Chapters 01 and 02). Available online at: http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html.

February 11: Search and Retrieval

• Cosjin, E. (2010). Relevance judgments and measurements. In M. J. Bates (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (3rd edition), (pp. 4512-4519). New York, NY: CRC Press.

February 16: Search and Retrieval

• Croft, W. B., Metzler, D., & Strohman, T. (2010). Search engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, (pp. 75-82). Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

February 18: Search and Retrieval

• [Review Feb. 11 Reading:] Cosjin, E. (2010). Relevance judgments and measurements. In M. J. Bates (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (3rd edition), (pp. 4512-4519). New York, NY: CRC Press.
• [Review Feb 16 Reading:] Croft, W. B., Metzler, D., & Strohman, T. (2010). Search engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, (pp. 75-82). Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.
• [Review Feb 16 Reading:] Levene, M. (2006). An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation. London, UK: Addison Wesley Publishing. (pp. 77-86 from Chapter 5)
• Homework Due: Search and Retrieval

February 23: Search and Retrieval

• [Review Feb 16 Reading:] Levene, M. (2006). An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation. London, UK: Addison Wesley Publishing. (Chapter 5)

February 25: Search and Retrieval

• [Review Feb 16 Reading:] Levene, M. (2006). An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation. London, UK: Addison Wesley Publishing. (Chapter 5)

March 02: Career Day I

• Middleton, D. (2009). Landing a job of the future takes a two-track mind. Wall Street Journal, December 28, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703278604574624392641425278.html
• Gray, P. & Olfman, L. (2010). Careers and education in information systems. In M. J. Bates (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (3rd edition), (pp. 769-771). New York, NY: CRC Press.
• Career Guest Speakers

March 04: Take Home Midterm Due; Career Day II

• Career Guest Speakers

March 09, 11: No Class: Spring Break

March 16: Information Seeking Needs and Behaviors

• Case, D. O. (2007). "Chapter 1: Information Behavior: An Introduction," "Chapter 2: Common Examples of Information Behavior." Looking for Information: A survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior (pp. 3-35). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier/Academic Press.

March 18: Information Seeking Needs and Behaviors

• Hearst, M. A. (2009). Chapter 3: Models of the information seeking process. Search User Interfaces (pp. 64-90). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Available online at: http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/.

March 23: Human Computer Information Interaction

• Toms, E. (2010). User-centered design of information systems. In M. J. Bates (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (3rd edition), (pp. 5452-5460). New York, NY: CRC Press.

March 25: Human Computer Information Interaction

• Hearst, M. A. (2009). Chapter 1: The design of search user interfaces. Search User Interfaces (pp. 1-28). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Available online at: http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/.

March 30: Social Informatics

• Kling, R., Rosenbaum, H. & Sawyer, S. (2005). Understanding and communicating social informatics: A framework for studying and teaching human contexts of information and communication technologies (pp. 1-32). Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.
• Report Due: Internet Information Behavior

April 01: Social Informatics

• Dahlbom, B. & Mathiassen, L. (1996). Power in systems design. In R. Kling (Ed.), Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (2nd edition) (pp. 903-906). San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Inc.

April 06: Information Ethics

• Kling, R. (1996). Beyond outlaws, hackers and pirates: Ethical issues in the work of information and computer science professionals. In R. Kling (Ed.), Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (2nd edition) (pp. 848-869). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
• Parker, D. B., Swope, S., Baker, B. N., & Weiss, E. A. (1996). All in a day's work: Nine provocative examples in the practice of computing professionals. In R. Kling (Ed.), Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (2nd edition) (pp. 870-877). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

April 08: Information Ethics

• Linowes, D. F. (1996). Your personal information has gone public. In R. Kling (Ed.), Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (2nd edition) (pp. 637-642). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

April 13: Scholarly Communications, Bibliometrics, and Citation Analysis

• Osareh, F. (1996). Bibliometrics, citation analysis and co-citation analysis: A review of literature I. Libri 46, 149-158.

April 15: Scholarly Communications, Bibliometrics, and Citation Analysis

April 20: Research Day

• Presentations from SILS faculty about their research

April 22: Presentation Workshop / Course Evaluation **UPDATED 6 April 2010

• Report Due: Topics in Information Science

April 27: Information Ethics & Social Informatics Student Presentations **UPDATED 6 April 2010

• Due: In-class Presentations

Final Exam: Thursday, May 06, 8 AM