Fall 2015 Schedule
# | day | date | topic ⇒ deliverable (if any)
Module ① Introduction to the field
01 | Tue | 18 Aug | intro
---- | Thu | 20 Aug | no class
02 | Tue | 25 Aug | What Is Information?
03 | Thu | 27 Aug | What is Information Science?
04 | Tue | 01 Sep | History of Information Science
Module ① report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 02 Sep 2015
Module ② Organizing Information
05 | Thu | 03 Sep | Foundations
06 | Tue | 08 Sep | Categorizing
07 | Thu | 10 Sep | Classification
08 | Tue | 15 Sep | Thesauri, Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata
Module ② report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 16 Sep 2015
Module ③ Information Structures
09 | Thu | 17 Sep | Markup
10 | Tue | 22 Sep | Markup in practice
11 | Thu | 24 Sep | More markup in practice
12 | Tue | 29 Sep | Relational Databases
13 | Thu | 01 Oct | Relational Databases in practice
Module ③ report due by 2359 on Monday, 05 Oct 2015
Module ④ Information Pathways
14 | Tue | 06 Oct | networks in general
15 | Thu | 08 Oct | networks in practice
16 | Tue | 13 Oct | structure of the internet
---- | Thu | 15 Oct | Fall Break ⇒ be safe
Module ④ report due by 2359 on Monday, 19 Oct 2015
Module ⑤ Information Retrieval
17 | Tue | 20 Oct | Introduction To Ad-hoc Retrieval
18 | Thu | 22 Oct | Retrieval Models
19 | Tue | 27 Oct | Indexing
Module ⑤ report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 28 Oct 2015
Module ⑥ Information Design
20 | Thu | 29 Oct | Information Behaviors
21 | Tue | 03 Nov | Information Architecture cancelled
22 | Thu | 05 Nov | Human-Computer Interaction
23 | Tue | 10 Nov | Information Design
24 | Thu | 12 Nov | Design Principles
Module ⑥ report due by 2359 on Monday, 16 Nov 2015
Module ⑦ Thinking about Information
25 | Tue | 17 Nov | Information Ethics
26 | Thu | 19 Nov | open source
27 | Tue | 24 Nov | Big Data and you
28 | Tue | 01 Dec | course review & evaluation