Winter 2010

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INFO 200 - Intellectual Foundations of Informatics

Week One

Can a machine understand language?

• Read this: So what's a word?
• Read this: Orthography as a fundamental impediment to online information retrieval
• Do this: Death in 10,000 years!

An Entertainment Between Weeks One and Two

High frequency words are the meaningful words?

You've been working hard. Time to ease back and enjoy a "Cameo of an Information Scientist": Gerard Salton Finds Words. Unfortunately, this entertainment comes with a reading assignment!

Read this: Websearch: How the web has changed information retrieval

Student	Suggested Reading
Terry	Brooks

Week Two

Can there be information without information architecture?

• Read this: SGML, HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML, JSON, etc.
• Read this: No Bad Webpages: Reader Empowerment and the Web
• Do this: Help Martha Stewart decorate her data!

Student	Suggested Reading
Terry	Brooks

Week Three

Your beliefs influence your data structure?

• Read this: Storing Stuff: From Databases To Data Silos
• Do this: Help SpongeBob SquarePants square his data!

Student	Suggested Reading
Terry	Brooks

Week Four

Being connected indicates poverty or strength?

• Read this: Webify! Spiders already do it
• Read this: "The Semantic Web, universalist ambition and some lessons from librarianship"
• Do this: Calculate 6 degrees of Terry!

Student	Suggested Reading
Terry	Brooks

Week Five

To fix truth architect it on paper, otherwise it's digital and fluid?

• Read this: Constantly evolving literary genres
• Do this: Find tools for readers!

Student	Suggested Reading
Terry	Brooks

Week Six

Does sharing information require sharing meaning?

• Read this: Sharing locally, sharing globally
• Read this: Watch this: LOD - linking open data
• Do this: Put polar bears inside angle brackets!

Student	Suggested Reading
Terry	Brooks

Week Seven

Is web search perfectible?

• Read this: Finding lots of stuff
• Read this: Watch this: LINQ shifts the paradigm of query
• Do this: Improve Terry Brooks' Search Engine!

Student	Suggested Reading
Terry	Brooks

Week Eight

Do we have to pass a law to stabilize meaning?

• Read this: Does any of that stuff mean anything?
• Read this: Watch this: Webified metadata
• Do this: Help the iSchool design a web service!

An Entertainment Between Weeks Eight and Nine

You've been working really hard. Time to ease back and enjoy a "Cameo of an Information Scientist": Eugene Garfield and Citation Indexing.

Student	Suggested Reading
Terry	Brooks

Week Nine

How important is it NOT to know how Google works?

• Read this: Google
• Read this: The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google
• Do this: Whack Google

Post-Google: Kosmix

Student	Suggested Reading
Terry	Brooks