Course Syllabus

TOPIC

    REQUIRED READINGS

    RECOMMENDED READINGS

Weds 9/3

Orientation,  Intro to TDO

• TDO Chapter 1

Mon 9/8

Case Studies

• TDO Chapter 11
• Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic, 1945. 
• Borges, Jorge Luis. “The library of Babel.” Collected Fictions, 1998. 

Weds 9/10

Roadmap

• TDO Chapter 10

Mon 9/15

Activities 1

• TDO Chapter 2

• [Com] May, K.. TED Blog, 28 January 2014 The Moneyball Effect: How smart data is transforming criminal justice, healthcare, music, and even government spending. 

Weds 9/17

Activities 2

• Hearst, Marti. Search User Interfaces, 2009. Chapter 3 through 3.4 
• Morville, Peter and Rosenfeld, Louis. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition, 2006. Sections 5.3 and 5.4 
• NPR. For a More Ordered Life, Organize Like a Chef, 2014. 

• [IA] Tidwell, Jennifer. Designing Interfaces, Second Edition, 2010. Chapter 2 
• [Com, DH] Carl Haber video
• [Com, DH] Great Parchment video
• [Bus] Yuhanna, Noel. Enterprise Data Archiving. 2011.
• [Arc] Ball, Joan. Digitizing the Drawers. 2011.

Mon 9/22

Resources 1

• TDO Sections 3.1-3.4, 3.6
• Kent Preface and Chapter 1
• Gardiner, Bryan. “How an Army of Sensors Helps Us Track Tsunamis and Score Parking Spots.” Wired, 2013. 

• Pew Internet Project. “The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025.” Pages 1-20

Weds 9/24

Resources 2

• TDO Sections 3.5, 8.3.1-8.3.2
• Smith, Abby. “Authenticity in perspective.” Authenticity in a digital environment, 2000. Pages 69-75

• Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications for Preservation
• [Com] Glushko, Robert and McGrath, Tim. Document Engineering. Chapter 2
• [Business] Ng, Serena and Bensinger, Greg. “The Perils of Pooled Merchandise.” WSJ, 2014. 
• [Museums] Olozia, J.. “An Infamous Forger on His Most Convincing Works, NY Times 18 September 2014.

Mon 9/29

Resource Description 1

• TDO Sections 4.1- 4.3

• Recommended Tool for Working with XML Resource Descriptions is XML Spy

Weds 10/1

Resource Description 2

• Kent Chapters 2 and 3
• Doctorow, Cory. Metacrap, 2001. 
• RDF Primer, Sections 1-3 
• Lohr, Steve. “For Big-Data Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle to Insights.” NYT, 2014. 

• Trant, Jennifer. “Studying social tagging and folksonomy: A review and framework.” Journal of Digital Information , 2009. 
• Naumann, Felix and Herschel, Melanie. An Introduction to Duplicate Detection, 2010. 

Mon 10/6

(Ryan's music slides)

Describing multimedia and non-text

• TDO Section 4.4
• Harpring, Patricia. “The language of images: enhancing access to images by applying metadata schemas and structured vocabularies.” Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards and Strategies, 2002. 
• Cuno, James. “How art history is failing at the internet.” Daily Dot, 2012. 
• Naaman, Mor, et al. “Context data in geo-referenced digital photo collections.” 2004. 
• Castelluccio, Michael. “The Music Genome Project.” Strategic Finance, 2006. 

• [Mus] Yang, Sarah. Help wanted: Public needed to uncover clues in natural history collections. UC Berkeley News Center, 2013. 
• [Mus] [Com] Siegal, Nina. “Masterworks for One and All.” NYT, 2013. 
• [Com] Christel, Michael. Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems, 2009. 
• [Com] MIT Technology Review. Deep Learning, 2014. 

Weds 10/8

Relationships and Structures 1

• TDO Sections 5.1- 5.4
• Kent Chapter 4

• [Com, Ling]  Fellbaum, Christiane. Wordnet, 2010. (skip sections 10.12-10.15) 

Mon 10/13

EXAM 1

Weds 10/15

Relationships and Structures 2

• TDO Sections 5.5- 5.7
• TDO Chapter 8 through the end of 8.2.1

• [IA] Glushko, Robert. Modeling Methods and Artifacts for Crossing the Data/Document Divide, 2005. 

Mon 10/20

Relationships and Structures 3

• Krebs, Valdis. Social Network Analysis: A Brief Introduction. 
• MacRoberts, Michael and MacRoberts, Barbara. “Problems of citation analysis.” Scientometrics, 1996. (just the 12 problems… skim or skip “one paper: two philosophies”) 

• [Com] [LIS] Powell, James, et al. "Graphs in libraries: A primer." Information Technology and Libraries, 2011. 

Weds 10/22

Relationships and Structures 4

• TDO Section 5.8
• Berners-Lee, Tim, et al. “The semantic web.” Scientific American, 2001. 
• Heath, Tom and Bizer, Christian. “Linked data: Evolving the web into a global data space.” 2011. Chapters 1 and 2, pages 1-29. 

• [LIS] Byrne, Gillian and Goddard, Lisa. “The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data.” D-Lib Magazine, 2010. 

Mon 10/27

Categories

• TDO Chapter 6

• [CogSci][Linguistics] Boroditsky, Lera. “Lost in Translation.” WSJ, 2010. 
• [CogSci] Glushko, Robert, et al. “Categorization in the wild.” Trends in cognitive sciences, 2008. Study Box 3. 
• [Philosophy] [Linguistics] Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins .” 1937.

Weds 10/29

Classification 1

• TDO Sections 7.1, 7.2
• Tavris, Carol. “How Psychiatry Went Crazy.” WSJ, 2013. 
• Hoyt, Clark. “Semantic minefields.” NYT, 2010. 
• Prewitt, Kenneth. “Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories.” NYT, 2013. 
• Rosenthal, Arnon, et al. “From semantic integration to semantics management: case studies and a way forward.” ACM SIGMOD Record, 2004. 

Mon 11/3

Classification 2

• TDO Sections 7.3-7.6

• [CogSci ][IA] Norman, D. A. (2006). Logic versus usage: the case for activity-centered design. interactions, 13(6), 45-ff..
• [Com] [IA] Hearst, Marti. Search User Interfaces, 2009. Section 8.6 "Faceted Navigation" 

Weds 11/5

Interactions 1

• TDO Sections 9.1-9.3
• Glushko, R.J, and McGrath, T. "Describing what Businesses do and how they do it", Chapter 4 of Document Engineering  (Sections 4.1-4.2, pages 101-127).

• [Com] [Bus] Glushko, R. J., & Nomorosa, K. J. (2013). "Substituting Information for Interaction: A Framework for Personalization in Service Encounters and Service Systems." Journal of Service Research, 16(1), 21-38.

Mon 11/10

Interactions 2

• Glushko, R.J, and McGrath, T. "Describing what Businesses do and how they do it",  (Section 4.4.2, pages 134-144).
• Baron, Richard, et al. “Electronic health records: just around the corner? Or over the cliff?” Annals of Internal Medicine, 2005.

• [Business] [Law] Farr, Christina. “Apple prepares Healthkit rollout amid tangled regulatory web.” Reuters, 2014.
• [Business] Brunnermeier, Smita B., and Sheila A. Martin. “Interoperability costs in the US automotive supply chain.” Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 7, no. 2 (2002): 71-82

Weds 11/12

Text Processing, Boolean Model

• TDO Sections 9.4-9.6
• Manning, Christopher, et al. Introduction to Information Retrieval, 2009. Chapter 1, pages 1-6 
• Manning Chapter 2

Mon 11/17

Vector Models

• Manning Chapter 6  (skim or skim sections 6.1 and 6.4)
• Dumais, Susan. “Data-driven approaches to information access.” Cognitive Science, 2003. (read 491-497, 502-503 on essay grading)

Weds 11/19

Web Search, Structure Models

• Manning Chapter 19, pages 421-431 
• Hearst, Marti. Search User Interfaces, 2009. Chapter 1

Mon 11/24

EXAM 2

Weds 11/26

Alumni day

Mon 12/1

NLP, Mobile, and Multimedia Information Retrieval

• Hearst, Marti A. “‘Natural’ search user interfaces.” Communications of the ACM, 2011. 

•  Geller, Tom. “Talking to machines.” Communications of the ACM, 2012.
• Schmitz, Patrick and Black, Michael. “The Delphi Toolkit: Enabling Semantic Search for Museum Collections.” 2008.
• Michel, Jean-Baptiste, et al. “Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books.” Science, 2011.
• Greengard, Samuel. “Life, translated.” Communications of the ACM, 2011.

Weds 12/3

Machine Learning, Image Recognition

• TDO Sections 6.5, 7.6
• Feldman, Ronen. “Techniques and applications for sentiment analysis.” Communications of the ACM, 2013.
• Juola, Patrick. “Rowling and ‘Galbraith’: an authorial analysis.” 2013.
• Markoff, John. Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software http://nyti.ms/11eGJj6  (NY Times, 18 November 2014)

• Hewes, Arlington. “Step aside Google image search, here’s an algorithm that knows what’s in a picture.” The Physics arXiv Blog. “When a machine learning algorithm studied fine art paintings, it saw things art historians had never noticed.” 2014.Singularity Hub, 2014.

Mon 12/8

Course wrap-up

Weds 12/10

Project review/discussion

Thurs 12/18

Projects Due