Spring 2015 Schedule
# | day | date | topic ⇒ deliverable (if any)
Module ① Introduction to the field
01 | Thu | 08 Jan | intro
02 | Tue | 13 Jan | What Is Information?
03 | Thu | 15 Jan | What is Information Science?
--- | Mon | 19 Jan | Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday ⇒ do something with your community
04 | Tue | 20 Jan | History of Information Science
Module ① report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 21 Jan 2015
Module ② Organizing Information
05 | Thu | 22 Jan | Foundations
06 | Tue | 27 Jan | Categorizing
07 | Thu | 29 Jan | Classification
08 | Tue | 03 Feb | Thesauri, Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata
Module ② report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 04 Feb 2015
Module ③ Information Structures
09 | Thu | 05 Feb | Markup
10 | Tue | 10 Feb | Markup in practice
11 | Thu | 12 Feb | Relational Databases
--- | Tue | 17 Feb | weather cancellation
12 | Thu | 19 Feb | Relational Databases in practice
Module ③ report due by 2359 on Monday, 23 Feb 2015
Module ④ Information Pathways
13 | Tue | 24 Feb | networks in general
--- | Thu | 26 Feb | weather cancellation
14 | Tue | 03 Mar | networks in practice
15 | Thu | 05 Mar | structure of the internet
Module ④ report due by 2359 on Monday, 16 Mar 2015
--- | Tue | 10 Mar | Spring Break ⇒ be safe
--- | Thu | 12 Mar | Spring Break ⇒ be safe
Module ⑤ Information Retrieval
16 | Tue | 17 Mar | Search & Retrieval
17 | Thu | 19 Mar | Introduction To Ad-hoc Retrieval
18 | Tue | 24 Mar | Retrieval Models
19 | Thu | 26 Mar | Indexing
Module ⑤ report due by 2359 on Monday, 30 Mar 2015
Module ⑥ Information Design
20 | Tue | 31 Mar | Information Behaviors
21 | Thu | 02 Apr | Information Architecture
22 | Tue | 07 Apr | Human-Computer Interaction
23 | Thu | 09 Apr | Information Design
Module ⑥ report due by 2359 on Monday, 20 Apr 2015
Module ⑦ Thinking about Information
24 | Tue | 14 Apr | Big Data and you
25 | Thu | 16 Apr | Information Ethics
26 | Tue | 21 Apr | open source
27 | Thu | 23 Apr | course review & evaluation