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 | 0800-1100 ⇒ a final exam will be due for in class presentation
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