INFM 700: Information Architecture (Spring 2008)

INFM 700 Information Architecture (Spring 2008)

Syllabus

#	Date	D	T	P	Topic	Assignment Due	Details
1	1/28				Introduction: What is Information Architecture?		[show]
1	1/28				Introduction: What is Information Architecture? Readings: M&R, Chapter 1, Defining Information Architecture M&R, Chapter 2, Practicing Information Architecture M&R, Chapter 3, User Needs and Behaviors Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
2	2/4				Principles of Information Architecture		[show]
2	2/4				Principles of Information Architecture Readings: M&R, Chapter 4, The Anatomy of an Information Architecture M&R, Chapter 5, Organization Systems M&R, Chapter 6, Labeling Systems M&R, Chapter 7, Navigation Systems Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
3	2/11				Structured Information		[show]
3	2/11				Structured Information Readings: M&R, Chapter 12, Design and Documentation Introduction to Relational Databases JDBC: A Relational Database Overview (this may be useful later on if you wish to use Java in your final project) Wikipedia entry: XML Introduction to XML (go through tutorial, from "XML Introduction" through "XML in Real Life") Scientific American: The Semantic Web Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
4	2/18				Metadata		[show]
4	2/18				Metadata Readings: M&R, Chapter 9, Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata Alan Gilchrist. Thesauri, Taxonomies and Ontologies — An Etymological Note. Journal of Documentation, 59(1):7-18. John F. Sowa. Semantic Networks. In Stuart C. Shapiro, editor, Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. Wiley, 1987. Implicit Methods for Conveying Structural Knowledge Through Frames and Slots, in Katherine Beissner, David H. Jonassen, Michael Yacci, Structural Knowledge: Techniques for Representing, Conveying, and Acquiring Structural Knowledge. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993. Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
5	2/25				Team Presentations I: Survey of Knowledge Resources	Team Presentations	[show]
5	2/25				Team Presentations I: Survey of Knowledge Resources Assignment Description: Team Presentations MeSH: Rishi Anand, Todd Bailey, and Sumit Gupta Folksonomies: Sujatha Dissanayake, Ahmad Ladhani, Rhett McCarty WordNet/FrameNet: Linda Melchor, Ferhat Omur, and Ning Zheng		[Hide]
6	3/3				Unstructured Information (Part I)		[show]
6	3/3				Unstructured Information (Part I) Readings: M&R, Chapter 8, Search Systems Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
7	3/10				Unstructured Information (Part II)	Design Project 1	[show]
7	3/10				Unstructured Information (Part II) Assignment Due: Design Project 1 Readings: Marti Hearst. User Interfaces and Visualization, in Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, editors, Modern Information Retrieval. Addison-Wesley, 1999. Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
	3/17	Spring Break!
8	3/24
8	3/24
9	3/31				Team Presentations II: Techniques for Unstructured Information	Team Presentations	[show]
9	3/31				Team Presentations II: Techniques for Unstructured Information Assignment Description: Team Presentations Clustering/Classification: Jithesh Balakrishnan, Arunachalam Srinivasan, Priyanka Wani, Yang Yang Image Search: Diti Gandhi, Samantha Mahindrakar Mining Query Logs: Hua Ai, Tejas Khatri, Taiwo Salau, Roseanne Trout Recommender Systems: Aalap Kohojkar, Yang Liu, Zhan Shi		[Hide]
10	4/7				Formative Evaluations		[show]
10	4/7				Formative Evaluations Readings: M&R, Chapter 10, Research M&R, Chapter 11, Strategy Slides for brainstorming exercise: [PowerPoint] Slides from Pengyi Zhang's talk about formative evaluations: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
11	4/14				Design Project Presentations	Design Project 2
12	4/21				Summative Evaluations		[show]
12	4/21				Summative Evaluations Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
13	4/28				System Building Issues		[show]
13	4/28				System Building Issues Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
14	5/5				Case Study: Understanding PubMed Users for Enhanced Text Retrieval		[show]
14	5/5				Case Study: Understanding PubMed Users for Enhanced Text Retrieval Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]		[Hide]
15	5/12				Final Project Presentations	Final Project

Notes:

The course is organized along three themes: Design, Technology, and Process. The relative emphasis of each theme is coded by the colored rectangles.
Readings are due prior to the class noted in the syllabus. M&R refers to the course textbook, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld.

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