Spring 2014 Schedule

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

Introduction Sessions

  01 | Thu | 09 Jan | intro

  02 | Tue | 14 Jan | What is Information Science?

  03 | Thu | 16 Jan | History of Information Science

  --- | Mon | 20 Jan | Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday ⇒ do something useful for your community

  04 | Tue | 21 Jan | History of Information Science

  05 | Thu | 23 Jan | What Is Information?

① Organizing Information Module

  06 | Tue | 28 Jan | Information Organization: Foundations

  07 | Thu | 30 Jan | Information Organization: Categorizing

  08 | Tue | 04 Feb | Information Organization: Classification

  09 | Thu | 06 Feb | Information Structures: Thesauri, Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata

  10 | Tue | 11 Feb | Information Structures: Markup

  --- | Thu | 13 Feb | snow cancellation

  11 | Tue | 18 Feb | Information Structures: Relational Databases

  12 | Thu | 20 Feb | Review and look forward ⇒ Module ① report

  13 | Tue | 25 Feb | Module ① Exam

② Retrieving Information Module

  14 | Thu | 27 Feb | networks

  15 | Tue | 04 Mar | structure of the web

  16 | Thu | 06 Mar | Search & Retrieval

  --- | Sat | 08 Mar | start Spring Recess ⇒ be safe

  --- | Sun | 16 Mar | return from Spring Recess ⇒ continue as above

  17 | Tue | 18 Mar | Search & Retrieval | Models

  18 | Thu | 20 Mar | Search & Retrieval | Indexing

  19 | Tue | 25 Mar | Review and look forward ⇒ Module ② report

③ Using Information Module

  20 | Thu | 27 Mar | Information Needs

  21 | Tue | 01 Apr | iRods - rules & roles

  22 | Thu | 03 Apr | Information Behaviors

  23 | Tue | 08 Apr | Human-Computer Interaction

  24 | Thu | 10 Apr | Search User Interfaces

  25 | Tue | 15 Apr | Social Informatics

Wrap up Sessions

  26 | Thu | 17 Apr | Information Ethics

  27 | Tue | 22 Apr | The Future

  28 | Thu | 24 Apr | course review & evaluation ⇒ Module ③ report

  --- | Fri | 02 May | 1200-1500 ⇒ Module ①, ②, and ③ Exam