Date

Topic covered

Assignments

10-Jan

Introduction to Information Systems

Syllabus, discussion of class

Chapter 1, "Information Science and Systems," Robert Allen

17-Jan

Digital Libraries as an Information System

Chapter 7, Information Services and Repositories

Digital Library Architectures

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07arms.html

http://csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/papers/nuernberg/nuernberg.html

24-Jan

Digital Objects

http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/home/cstr/arch/k-w.html

Middleware

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november97/daniel/11daniel.html

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/papers/ECDL98/FEDORA-final.html

31-Jan

Metadata

Web Metadata Standards: Observations and Prescriptions

http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.6dd2a408dbe4a94be487e0606bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1_article&TheCat=1005&path=dsonline/0502&file=s1bod.xml&

A. Gilliland-Swetland, Introduction to Metadata: Setting the Stage, 2000.

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/pdf/swetland.pdf

C. Lagoze, "Keeping Dublin Core Simple: Cross Domain Discovery or Resource Description?," D-Lib Magazine, 7 (1), 2001.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/lagoze/01lagoze.html

7-Feb

Web and internet technologies

Ch 2, Basic WWW Technologies, "Modeling the Internet and Web", Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth

Project proposals

14-Feb

Web Services, Metadata Harvesting

www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/412/gottschalk.pdf

Research topics

http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/j2ee/jwsa/JWSA_CH02.pdf

Exercise 1

21-Feb

Introduction to Social Networks

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b3968001.htm

http://www.analytictech.com/networks/topics.htm

Here read the following short topics: What is it? History, Graph Theory, Matrices,

Graphs and Matrices, Ego Networks, Centrality and Diffusion, Cohesive Subgroups

28-Feb

Indexing and searching

Ch 5, Efficiency, "Information Retrieval," David Grossman, Ophir Frieder

Ch 4.1-4.3, Text Analysis, "Modeling the Internet and Web", Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth

7-Mar

No Class - Spring break

14-Mar

Graphs as Infrastructure - Web

Ch 3, Web Graphs, "Modeling the Internet and Web," Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth

Exercise 1 due

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/sci01.pdf

21-Mar

Citation Analysis and references

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/22863.html

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~donturn/research/bibweb.html

E. Garfield, "Citation Indexes for Science," Science, 1995.

S. Brin, L. Page, "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/brin98anatomy.html

28-Mar

Review for exam

4-Apr

Exam

11-Apr

Research topic presentations

18-Apr

Project presentations

25-Apr

Project presentations