Fall 2016 Schedule

# | day | date | topic ⇒ deliverable (if any)

Module ① Introduction to the field

  01 | Tue | 23 Aug | intro

  02 | Thu | 25 Aug | what is Information?

  03 | Tue | 30 Aug | what is Information Science?

  04 | Thu | 01 Sep | history of Information Science

Module ① report due by 2359 on Monday, 05 Sep 2016


Module ② Organizing Information

  05 | Tue | 06 Sep | foundations

  06 | Thu | 08 Sep | categorizing

  07 | Tue | 13 Sep | classification

  08 | Thu | 15 Sep | thesauri, controlled vocabulary and metadata

Module ② report due by 2359 on Monday, 19 Sep 2016


Module ③ Information Structures

  09 | Tue | 20 Sep | markup

  10 | Thu | 22 Sep | semantic markup

  11 | Tue | 27 Sep | presentational markup

  12 | Thu | 29 Sep | relational databases

  13 | Tue | 04 Oct | relational databases in practice

Module ③ report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 05 Oct 2016


Module ④ Information Pathways

  14 | Thu | 06 Oct | networks

  15 | Tue | 11 Oct | no class for University Day

  16 | Thu | 13 Oct | networks in practice

  17 | Tue | 18 Oct | structure of the internet

  ---- | Thu | 20 Oct | Fall Break ⇒ be safe

Module ④ report due by 2359 on Monday, 24 Oct 2016


Module ⑤ Information Retrieval

  18 | Tue | 25 Oct | introduction to ad-hoc retrieval

  19 | Thu | 27 Oct | retrieval models

  20 | Tue | 01 Nov | indexing

Module ⑤ report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 02 Nov 2016


Module ⑥ Information Design

  21 | Thu | 03 Nov | information behaviors

  22 | Tue | 08 Nov | information architecture

  23 | Thu | 10 Nov | human-computer interaction

  24 | Tue | 15 Nov | design principles

  25 | Thu | 17 Nov | information design

Module ⑥ report due by 2359 on Monday, 21 Nov 2016


Module ⑦ Thinking about Information

  26 | Tue | 22 Nov | information ethics

  ---- | Thu | 24 Nov | Thanksgiving ⇒ be thankful

  27 | Tue | 29 Nov | Big Data: structures and networks

  28 | Thu | 01 Dec | futures

  29 | Tue | 06 Dec | course review & evaluation

Turn in your final product by 1100 on Tueday, 13 Dec 2016

  30 | Tue | 13 Dec | 0800-1100a final exam will be due for in class presentation

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