Fall 2014 Schedule
# | day | date | topic ⇒ deliverable (if any)
Module ① Introduction to the field
01 | Tue | 19 Aug | intro
02 | Thu | 21 Aug | What Is Information?
03 | Tue | 26 Aug | What is Information Science?
04 | Thu | 28 Aug | History of Information Science
Module ① report due by 2359 on Monday, 01 Sep 2014
Module ② Organizing Information
05 | Tue | 02 Sep | Foundations
06 | Thu | 04 Sep | Categorizing
07 | Tue | 09 Sep | Classification
08 | Thu | 11 Sep | Thesauri, Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata
Module ② report due by 2359 on Monday, 15 Sep 2014
Module ③ Information Structures
09 | Tue | 16 Sep | Markup
10 | Thu | 18 Sep | Markup in practice
11 | Tue | 23 Sep | Relational Databases
12 | Thu | 25 Sep | Relational Databases in practice
13 | Tue | 30 Sep | iRods - rules & roles
Module ③ report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 01 Oct 2014
Module ④ Information Pathways
14 | Thu | 02 Oct | networks in general
15 | Tue | 07 Oct | networks in practice
16 | Thu | 09 Oct | structure of the internet
17 | Tue | 14 Oct | network of networks
--- | Thu | 16 Oct | Fall Break ⇒ be safe
Module ④ report due by 2359 on Monday, 20 Oct 2014
Module ⑤ Information Retrieval
18 | Tue | 21 Oct | Search & Retrieval
19 | Thu | 23 Oct | Retrieval Models
20 | Tue | 28 Oct | no class
21 | Thu | 30 Oct | Indexing
Module ⑤ report due by 2359 on Monday, 03 Nov 2014
Module ⑥ Information Design
22 | Tue | 04 Nov | Information Behaviors
23 | Thu | 06 Nov | Information Architecture
24 | Tue | 11 Nov | Human-Computer Interaction
25 | Thu | 13 Nov | Information Design
Module ⑥ report due by 2359 on Monday, 17 Nov 2014
Module ⑦ Thinking about Information
26 | Tue | 18 Nov | Social Informatics
27 | Thu | 20 Nov | Information Ethics
28 | Tue | 25 Nov | The Future
--- | Thu | 27 Nov | Thanksgiving ⇒ be thankful
29 | Tue | 02 Dec | course review & evaluation