21:122 - Organization of Information I

Spring 2006

Instructor:	David Eichmann
Class Schedule:	4:30 - 5:45 TTh, N105 LC and the ICN
Office	3086 LIB
Office Hours:	2:30 - 4:30 TTh
Phone	319-335-5715
Fax	319-335-5374
E-Mail:	david-eichmann@uiowa.edu
Course URL:	http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/courses/org_info_1/

Description

Theory, principles and standards in the organization of information; the function of catalogs, indices and bibliographic networks; introduction to metadata descriptions, name and title access, subject analysis, controlled vocabularies, and classification systems. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

Objectives

This class is intended as an introduction to a broad spectrum of organizational techniques that are employed across diverse constellations of content, from the very formal techniques employed in library cataloging and ontology formation through the very ad hoc (e.g., favorite link lists on personal Web pages).

Course Format

The course involves lectures, class discussions, external reading, writing a paper and homework. You're expected to attend all classes and come to class having read the assigned material and prepared to discuss it.

Grading

All exams will be take home - released to the students via this Web site and due to the instructor by the deadline appearing on the particular exam.

Midterm Exam	25%
Final Exam (comprehensive)	25%
Homework	20%
Term Paper	25%
Class Participation	5%

Midterm Exam (due March 30)

Final Exam (due May 12)

Term Paper

Homework Assignments

Homework will be assigned approximately every two weeks, with at least a week before it's due (always including at least one weekend).

Homework #1, due Feb. 14 (Note updated due date!)
Homework #2, due March 2
Homework #3, due March 9
Homework #4, due April 20
Homework #5, due May 2

Slides for Class

Chapter	Title	Class Format	Handouts
1	Organizing Information	PowerPoint	PDF
1	Hagler's Functions
2	Minard's diagram
3	MARC Parsing Example
4	The Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee Academic discussion, Japan Prize 2002 The Semantic Web Vision = G. Antoniou & F. van Harmelen
5	Z39.50 Made Simple
	The Cluster Hypothesis
	DOI Handle System Overview	PowerPoint
8	CiteSeer search engine
8	Bibliographic Relationships	PowerPoint	PDF
Ontology	Top Level Categories Building, Sharing and Merging Ontologies

Text and Readings

Taylor, Arlene G., The Organization of Information, 2nd ed., Libraries Unlimited, 2004. ISBN: 1-56308-969-6

Phase 1 Readings - Conceptual Issues

Links for Chapter 1

WordNet

different implementation, same data

Supplemental Readings for Chapter 1

Bellinger, Castro & Mills, "Data, Information, Knowledge & Wisdom"

Nikhil Sharma, "The origin of the DIKW Hierarchy"
Dave Snowden, "Complex Acts of Knowing: Paradox and Descriptive Self-Awareness," Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol 29, no 4, April/May 2003, pp. 23-28.

R. E. Wyllys, "Information Architecture"

Minard's diagram

Andrew Dillon, "Information Architecture in JASIST: Just Where Did We Come From?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 53, no. 10, 2002, pp. 821-823.

Supplemental Readings for Chapter 2

Michael Buckland, "What is a 'Document'?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 48, no. 9, September 1997, pp. 804-809.
Chip Morningstar, "How to Deconstruct Almost Anything - My Postmodern Adventure"

Supplemental Readings for Chapter 3

Barbara Kwasnik, "The Role of Classification in Knowledge Representation and Discovery," Library Trends, June 22, 1999.
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," Atlantic Monthly, vol. 176, July 1945.
Wilfrid Lancaster, "Wither Libraries? or, Wither Libraries," College & Research Libraries, vol. 39, no. 5, Sept. 1978, pp. 345-357.

Phase 2 Readings - Expression

Links for Chapter 4

Supplemental Readings for Chapter 4

Needleman, Mark H. "RDF: The Resource Description Framework." Serials Review 27, no. 1 (December 10, 2001): 58-61.
Berners-Lee, Tim, James Hendler, And Ora Lassila. "The Semantic Web," Scientific American 284, no. 5 (May 2001): 34-38, 40-43.
Bryan, Martin, An Introduction to the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Gaynor, Edward, From Marc To Markup: SGML and Online Library Systems.

Supplemental Readings for Chapter 5

Borgman, C., "Why are online catalogs still hard to use?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science 1996 vol: 47 iss: 7 pg: 493
Farb, Sharon, "Universal Design and the Americans with Disabilities Act: - how systems design can expand information access." [ALCTS Newsletter Online 11, no. 1 (spring 2000)].
Hildreth, Charles R. "The Use and Understanding of Keyword Searching in a University Online Catalog." Information Technology and Libraries 16, no. 2 (June 1997): 52-62
van Rijsbergen, C. J. Information Retrieval, 2nd Ed.
Digital Object Identifier System site

Phase 3 Readings - Definition & Manipulation

Supplemental Readings for Chapter 6

Gillihand-Swetland, Anne J. "Setting the Stage." In Introduction to Metadata Pathways to Digital Information. Version 2.0, ed. By Murtha Baca 2000.
Hodge, Gail. Metadata Made Simpler. 2001
Vellucci, Sherry I. "Metadata and Authority Control." Library Resources and Technical Services 44, no 1 (Jan. 2000): 33-44.

Supplemental Readings for Chapter 7

Milstead, Jessica and Susan Feldman, Metadata: Cataloging by Any Other Name..., ONLINE, January 1999
Baca, Murtha, et al. Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and their Images
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

element guide

TEI document from IBM
Global information Locator Service (GILS)

Encoded Archival Description (EAD): Official EAD Version 2000
Guenther, Rebecca S., "MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema," portal: Libraries and the Academy - Volume 3, Number 1, January 2003, pp. 137-150
Open Archive Initiative

Guidelines for using resource identifiers in Dublin Core metadata and IEEE LOM

Supplemental Readings for Chapter 8

"The Paris Principles"
Tillett, Barbara, "A Taxonomy of Bibliographic Relationships," Library Resources and Technical Services, 35, 2 April 1991, pp. 150-158.

Supplemental Readings for Ontology

Sowa, John, Ontology

Other Textbooks that we're not using:

Jennifer Rowley & John Farrow, Organizing Knowledge - An Introduction to Managing Access to Information, 3rd ed., Gower House Publ., 2000.
Elaine Svenonius, The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, MIT Press, 2001.

Tentative Schedule

Given that this is only the second offering of the course, this schedule is subject to change (with reasonable notice) as the semster proceeds. Reading assignments appear in brackets.

Video Issues:

The class gets taped by Continuing Education, which will arrange for tapes for a given class on request. I am also digitizing the tape for later streaming from mingo, the SLIS server. The 'http' link for a given class typically embeds the video stream in your browser. The 'rtsp' link typically launches a helper application from your set of applications to play the video stream. The rtsp version usually allows for more control - resizing the video, for example.

Week	Date	Topic	Video	Date	Topic	Video
1	1/17	ALISE - no class		1/19	ALISE - no class
2	1/24	Introduction - data, information and knowledge [DIKW, Taylor, ch. 1]	http, rtsp	1/26	Introduction - application contexts: libraries, archives, and more... [Taylor, ch. 1]	http, rtsp
3	1/31	Retrieval Tools [Taylor, ch. 2]	http, rtsp	2/2	Retrieval Tools, con't. [Taylor, ch. 2]	see (1) below
4	2/7	Historical Perspectives [Taylor, ch. 3]	http, rtsp	2/9	Historical Perspectives, con't. [Taylor, ch. 3]	http, rtsp
5	2/14	Encoding Standards - MARC [Taylor, ch. 4]	http, rtsp	2/16	Encoding Standards - XML [Taylor, ch. 4]	http, rtsp
6	2/21	Encoding Standards - RDF and the Semantic Web [Taylor, ch. 4]	http, rtsp	2/23	Search and Retrieval Systems Design [Taylor, ch. 4]	http, rtsp
7	2/28	Query Languages [Taylor, ch. 5]	http, rtsp	3/2	Z39.50(?) [Taylor, ch. 5]	http, rtsp
8	3/7	Introduction to Metadata [Taylor, ch. 6]	http, rtsp	3/9	Applications in Metadata - Dublin Core [Taylor, ch. 7]	http, rtsp
	3/14	Spring Break - no class		3/16	Spring Break - no class
9	3/21	Applications in Metadata - TEI [Taylor, ch. 7]	http, rtsp	3/23	Applications in Metadata - GILS [Taylor, ch. 7]	http, rtsp
10	3/28	Access and Authority Control [Taylor, ch. 8]	http, rtsp	3/30	Access and Authority Control, con't. [Taylor, ch. 8]	http, rtsp
11	4/4	Subject Analysis [Taylor, ch. 9]	http, rtsp	4/6	Subject Analysis, con't. [Taylor, ch. 9]	http, rtsp
12	4/11	Vocabulary Control - Semantics [Taylor, ch. 10]	http, rtsp	4/13	Vocabulary Control - Representation [Taylor, ch. 10]	http, rtsp
13	4/18	Ontology	http, rtsp	4/20	Ontology, con't.	http, rtsp
14	4/25	Categorization - Classification [Taylor, ch. 11]	no class	4/27	Categorization - Taxonomies [Taylor, ch. 11]	no class
15	5/2	Arrangement and Display [Taylor, ch. 12]	http, rtsp	5/4	Arrangement and Display, con't. [Taylor, ch. 12]	http, rtsp
	5/8-12	Finals Week

Due to equipment issues, we were not only unable to broadcast class, we were unable to tape class. As an approximate substitution, I'm providing links to the classes covering chapter 2 from the Fall 2004 offering of the course:

08/30/2004 - http, rtsp
09/01/2004 - http, rtsp