Spring 2016 Schedule

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

Module ① Introduction to the field

  01 | Tue | 12 Jan | intro

  02 | Thu | 14 Jan | what is Information?

  03 | Tue | 19 Jan | what is Information Science?

  04 | Thu | 21 Jan | history of Information Science

Module ① report due by 2359 on Monday, 25 Jan 2016


Module ② Organizing Information

  05 | Tue | 26 Jan | foundations

  06 | Thu | 28 Jan | categorizing

  07 | Tue | 02 Feb | classification

  08 | Thu | 04 Feb | thesauri, controlled vocabulary and metadata

Module ② report due by 2359 on Monday, 08 Feb 2016


Module ③ Information Structures

  09 | Tue | 09 Feb | markup

  10 | Thu | 11 Feb | semantic markup

  11 | Tue | 16 Feb | presentational markup

  12 | Thu | 18 Feb | relational databases

  13 | Tue | 23 Feb | relational databases in practice

Module ③ report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016


Module ④ Information Pathways

  14 | Thu | 25 Feb | networks

  15 | Tue | 01 Mar | networks in practice

  16 | Thu | 03 Mar | structure of the internet

  17 | Tue | 08 Mar | Big Data: structures and networks

Module ④ report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 09 Mar 2016


Module ⑤ Information Retrieval

  18 | Thu | 10 Mar | introduction to ad-hoc retrieval

  ---- | Tue | 15 Mar | Spring Break ⇒ be safe

  ---- | Thu | 17 Mar | Spring Break ⇒ be safe

  19 | Tue | 22 Mar | retrieval models

  20 | Thu | 24 Mar | indexing

Module ⑤ report due by 2359 on Monday, 28 Mar 2016


Module ⑥ Information Design

  21 | Tue | 29 Mar | information behaviors

  22 | Thu | 31 Mar | information architecture

  23 | Tue | 05 Apr | human-computer interaction

  24 | Thu | 07 Apr | information design

  25 | Tue | 12 Apr | design principles

Module ⑥ report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 13 Apr 2016


Module ⑦ Thinking about Information

  26 | Thu | 14 Apr | information ethics

  27 | Tue | 19 Apr | futures

  28 | Thu | 21 Apr | Lifetime Library

  29 | Tue | 26 Apr | course review & evaluation


final exam on Friday, 29 Apr 2016 at 1400-1500

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