IS 296: Seminar on Information Structures

 

Note: This is not a complete list of the readings for this classÑthese are merely the online readingsÉ Remember, you need to be on campus or use a proxy server to get access to most of these readings. More information on the proxy server is available at Bruin Online, <here>.

 

Required textbooks:

 

Bowker, G. and S. L. Star.  2000.  Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Svenonius, Elaine.  2000.  The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Weinberger, David.  2007.  Everything in Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder.  New York: Holt.

 

 

Required Readings

 

 

1:  Oct. 2: Course Introduction.

 

Weinberger, David.  2007.  Everything in Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder.  New York: Holt, chaps 1-5 (pp. 8-106).

 

2:  Oct. 9: Metadata and Representation.

 

Weinberger, David.  2007.  Everything in Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder.  New York: Holt, chaps 6-10 (pp. 107-233).

 

Svenonius, E.  2000.  The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, chaps. 1-6.

 

Optional readings:

 

Svenonius, Elaine.  2004.  The Epistemological Foundations of Knowledge Representations.  Library Trends 52(3): 571-587.

 

3:  Oct. 16: Codes, Metadata and Representation.

 

Svenonius, E.  2000.  The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, chaps. 7-10.

 

Origins within librarianship:

 

Strout, R.  F.  1956.  The Development of the Catalog and Cataloging Codes.  Library Quarterly 26: 254-275.

 

Optional readings:

 

Clapp, Verner W.  1951.  The Role of Bibliographic Organization in Contemporary Civilization.  In Bibliographic Organization: Papers Presented before the Fifteenth Annual conference of the Graduate Library School, July 24-29, 1950, ed. by Jesse H. Shera and Margaret E. Egan.  Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press: p. 3-23.

 

Edelman, H., and G. Tatum, Jr. 1976.  The Development of Collections in American University Libraries.  College & Research Libraries 37: 222-245.

 

Murra, K. O.  1951.  History of some attempts to organize bibliography internationally.  In Bibliographic organization: papers presented before the fifteenth annual conference of the Graduate Library School, July 24-29, 1950, ed. by Jesse H. Shera and Margaret E. Egan.  Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press: p. 24-53.

 

Tanselle, G. Thomas.  1977.  Descriptive Bibliography and Library Cataloguing.  Studies in Bibliography 30: 1-56.

 

Origins within archival management:

 

Schellenberg, T.R.  1965.  The management of archives.  New York: Columbia University Press.  Chaps. 3-6.

 

Bearman, D. 1989.  Archives and manuscript control with bibliographic utilities: challenges and opportunities. American archivist 52: 26-39.


Museums:

 

Stam, D. C. 1990.  The Quest for a Code, or a Brief History of the Computerized Cataloging of Art Objects.  In Beyond the Book: Extending MARC for Subject Access, ed. by Toni Petersen and Pat Molholt.  Boston: G.K. Hall: p. 117-143.

 

4:  Oct. 23: Classification.

 

Lakoff, G.  1987. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: chaps. 1-2, pp. 5-57.

 

Bowker, G. and S. L. Star.  2000.  Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press: [chaps. 1], [chap. 6], [chaps. 9-10].

 

Jacob, E.  2004. Classification and categorization: A difference that makes a difference.  Library Trends 52(3): 515-540.

 

Optional readings:

 

Rosch, E.  1973.  Natural Categories.  Cognitive Psychology 4(3): 328-350.

 

Rosch, E.  1975.  Cognitive Representations of Semantic Categories.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 104: 192-233.

 

Rosch, E. and C.B. Mervis.  1975.  Family Resemblances: Studies in the Internal Structure of Categories.  Cognitive Psychology 7(4): 573-605.

 

Rosch, E. and others.  1976.  Basic Objects in Natural Categories.  Cognitive Psychology 8(4): 382-439.

 

Olson, Hope A.  2001.  Sameness and Difference: A Cultural Foundation of Classification. Library Resources & Technical Services 45(3): 115-122.

 

Olson, Hope A.  2001.  The Power to Name: Representation in Library Catalogues. Signs 26: 639-668.

 

Olson, Hope A. 1998.  Mapping Beyond Dewey's Boundaries: Constructing Classificatory Space for Marginalized Knowledge Domains. Library Trends 47(2): 233-254.

 

Olson, Hope A.  1999.  Exclusivity, Teleology and Hierarchy: Our Aristotelean Legacy. Knowledge Organization 26(2): 65-73.

 

Olson, Hope A.  2002.  The Power to Name: Locating the Limits of Subject Representation in Libraries. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.

 

 

5:  Oct. 30: FRBR.

 

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.  1998: chaps. 3 and 5.

 

Le Bouef, Patrick.  2005.  FRBR: Hype or Cure-All?  Introduction. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 39, no. 3/4: 1-13. DOI: 10.1300/J104v39n03_01

 

Le Bouef, Patrick.  2005.  Musical Works in the FRBR Model or ÕQuasi la Stessa CosaÕ: Variations on a Theme by Umberto Eco. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 39, no. 3/4: 103-124. DOI: 10.1300/J104v39n03_08

 

 

6:  Nov. 6: Bridging User Studies and the Organization of Information.

 

Bates, M. J. 2002. The cascade of interactions in the digital library interfaceInformation Processing & Management 38: 381-400.

 

Dervin, B. & Reinhard, C.D. 2006. Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other. Making user and audience studies matterÑpaper 1Information Research 12(1): paper 286.

 

Optional readings:

 

7:  Nov. 13: Bookmarking and Tagging: Deducing Organization.

 

Greenberg, Jane, Maria Cristina Pattuelli, Bijan Parsia and W. Davenport Robertson. 2001.  Author-generated Dublin Core Metadata for Web Resources: A Baseline Study in an Organization. Journal of Digital Information, v. 2, no. 2 Article No. 78.

 

Gottleib, L. & Dilevko, J. 2001. User Preferences in the Classification of Electronic Bookmarks: Implications for a Shared System. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 52: 517-535.

 

Wu, H., Zubair, M., and Maly, K. 2006. Harvesting social knowledge from folksonomies. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Odense, Denmark, August 22 - 25, 2006). HYPERTEXT '06. ACM Press, New York, NY: 111-114.

 

Optional readings:

 

Veres, Csaba. 2006. The Language of Folksonomies: What Tags Reveal about User Classification. In Christian Kop, Gunther Fliedl, Heinrich Mayr, and Elisabeth Metais (Eds.), Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. 11th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2006. Klagenfurt, Austria, May 31-June 2: pp. 58-69

 

8:  Nov. 20: Bibliometrics I.

 

Borgman, C.L., and Furner, J.  2002.  Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics.  Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 36: 3-72.

 

Price, D. J. d. S.  1965.  Networks of Scientific Papers.  Science 149: 510-15.

 

Small, H. S.  1973.  Co-citation in the Scientific Literature: A New Measure of the Relationship between Two Documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 24: 265-9.

 

 

Optional readings:

 

Furner, Jonathan. 2002.  On Recommending. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53: 747-763

 

Wilson, C. S.  1999.  Informetrics. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 34, 107-247.

 

Fairthorne, R. A.  1969.  Empirical Hyperbolic Distributions (Bradford-Zipf-Mandelbrot) for Bibliometric Description and Prediction. Journal of Documentation 25: 319-343.

 

Price, D. J. d. S.  1965. Networks of Scientific Papers. Science 149: 510-515.

 

Price, D. d. S.  1976.  A General Theory of Bibliometric and other Cumulative Advantage Processes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 27: 292-306.

 

Merton, R. K.  1968.  The Matthew Effect in Science. Science 159: 56-63.

 

Garfield, E., & Sher, I. H.  1963.  New Factors in the Evaluation of Scientific Literature through Citation Indexing.  American Documentation 14: 195-201.

 

GlŠnzel, W., & Moed, H. F.  2002.  Journal Impact Measures in Bibliometric Research. Scientometrics 53: 171-193.

 

White, H. D., & McCain, K. W.  1998.  Visualizing a Discipline: An Author Co-Citation Analysis of Information Science, 1972-1995.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49: 327-355.

 

White, H. D.  2001.  Authors as Citers over Time. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 52: 87-108.

 

 

9:  Nov. 27: Bibliometrics II.

 

Swanson, D. R.  1986.  Undiscovered Public Knowledge.  Library Quarterly 56: 103-18.

 

Botafogo, R.A., Rivlin, E., and Shneiderman, B.  1992.  Structural Analysis of Hypertexts: Identifying Hierarchies and Useful MetricsACM Transactions on Information Systems 10: 142-80.

 

Newman, M.E.J.  2001.  Scientific Collaboration Networks: I. Network Construction and Fundamental ResultsPhysics Review E 64.

 

Newman, M.E.J.  2001.  Scientific Collaboration Networks: II. Shortest Paths, Weighted Networks, and CentralityPhysics review E 64.

 

 

Optional readings:

 

Griffiths, A., H.C. Luckhurst, and P. Willett.  1986.  Using interdocument similarity information in document retrieval SystemsJournal of the American Society for Information Science 37: 3-11.

 

Cronin, B.   2001.  Bibliometrics and Beyond: Some Thoughts on Web-Based Citation AnalysisJournal of Information Science 27: 1-7.

 

Almind, T. C., & Ingwersen, P.  1997.  Informetric Analyses on the World Wide Web: Methodological Approaches to ÔWebometrics.Õ  Journal of Documentation 53: 404-426.

 

Chakrabarti, S., Dom, B. E., Gibson, D., Kleinberg, J., Kumar, R., Raghavan, P., Rajagopalan, S., and Tomkins, A.  1999.  Mining the Link Structure of the World Wide WebIEEE computer 32: 60-67.

 

Kleinberg, J.M.  1999.  Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment.  Journal of the ACM 46: 604-32.

 

Brin, S. and Page, L.  1998.  The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. In WWW7: Proceedings of the 7th International World Wide Web Conference, pp. 97-108.

 

Leazer, G. H. and J. Furner.  1999.  Topological Indices of Textual Identity Networks.  Knowledge: Creation, Organization and Use: Proceedings of the 62nd ASIS Annual Meeting 36: 345-58.

 

Leazer, G. H., and Smiraglia, R. P.  1999.  Bibliographic Families in the Library Catalog: A Qualitative Study.  Library Resources & Technical Services 43: 191-212.

 

Gladwell, Malcolm.  1999.  Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg.  New Yorker 74, no. 41 (Jan. 11): p. 52-63.

 

Kleinfeld, J.S.  2002.  The Small World Problem.  Society 61-66.

 

Reynolds, P.  1997.  Who is the center of the Hollywood Universe?

 

 

10:  Dec. 4: Student presentations.

 

11:  Dec. 11: Student presentations.

 


Additional Topics

 

Relevance before 1990.

 

Cleverdon, Cyril W.  1965.  The Cranfield Hypotheses.  Library Quarterly 35: 121-125.

 

Swanson, Donald R.  1965.  The Evidence underlying the Cranfield Results.  Library Quarterly 35: 1-20.

 

Cuadra, C. A., and R. V. Katter.  1967.  Opening the Black Box of ÔRelevanceÕ. Journal of Documentation 23: 291-308.

 

Blair, D. C., & M.E. Maron.  1985.  An Evaluation of Retrieval Effectiveness for a Full-Text Document-Retrieval System.  Communications of the ACM 28: 289-299.

 

 

Optional readings:

 

Belkin, N. J., Oddy, R. N., & Brooks, H. M. 1982. ASK for Information Retrieval: Part I: Background and Theory. Journal of Documentation 38: 61-71.

 

Cleverdon, C. W.  1967.  The Cranfield Tests on Index Language Devices. Aslib Proceedings 19: 173-192.

 

Cooper, William S.  1973.  On Selecting a Measure of Retrieval Effectiveness.  Journal of the American Society of Information Science 24: 87-100.

 

Wilson, Patrick.  1973.  Situational relevance.  Information Storage & Retrieval 9: 457-71.

 

 

Relevance since 1990.

 

Froehlich, T. J.  1994.  Relevance ReconsideredÑTowards an Agenda for the 21st Century: Introduction to a Special Topic Issue on Relevance Research.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science 45: 124-34.

 

Barry, C. L. and L. Schamber.  1998.  UsersÕ Criteria for Relevance Evaluation: A Cross-Situational Comparison.  Information Processing & Management 34: 219-236.

 

Harter, S. P.  1992.  Psychological Relevance and Information Science.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science 43: 602-615.

 

Park, T.K.  1993.  The Nature of Relevance in Information Retrieval: An Empirical Study.  Library Quarterly 63: 318-51.

 

 

Optional readings:

 

Swanson, D. 1986. Subjective versus objective relevance in bibliographic retrieval systems. Library Quarterly 56: 389-398.

 

Park, T. K.  1994.  Toward a theory of user-based relevance: A call for a new paradigm of inquiry.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science 45: 135-41.

 

Beaulieu, M., S. E. Robertson, and E. Rasmussen. 1996.  Evaluating Interactive Systems in TREC. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47: 85-94.

 

Hersh, W. R., J. Pentecost, and D. H. Hickam. 1996.  A Task-Oriented Approach to Information Retrieval Evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47: 50-56.

 

Reid, J. 1999. A new task-oriented paradigm for information retrieval: Implications  for evaluation of information retrieval systems. Digital libraries: Interdisciplinary  concepts, challenges and opportunities: Proceedings of the Third International  Conference on the Conceptions of Library and Information Science. Lokve,  Croatia: Naklada Benja: p. 97-108.

 

Schamber, L.  1994.  Relevance and Information Behavior.  Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 29: 3-48.

 

Topic Maps.

 

Sigel, A.  2002.  Topic Maps in Knowledge Organization, in XML Topic Maps, Addison Wesley, pp. 383-476.

 

Rath, H.H. 2001. Semantic resource exploitation with Topic Maps. In Henning Lobin, (Ed.) Sprach- und Texttechnologie in digitalen Medien. FrŸhjahrstagung der Gesellschaft fŸr linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV), Justus-Liebig-UniversitŠt Giessen. Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand: p. 3-15.

 

 

Ontologies.

 

Domain Analysis.

 

Hjorland, B.  1997. Information seeking and Subject Representation: An Activity-Theoretical Approach to Information Science. New York: Greenwood.

 

Hjorland, B.  2002. Epistemology and the Socio-Cognitive Perspective in Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 53: 257-270.

 

Hjorland, B.  2002. Towards a Theory of Aboutness, Subject, Topicality, Theme, Domain, Field, Content... and Relevance. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 52: 774-778.

 

Hjorland, B.  2002. Domain Analysis in Information Science: Eleven ApproachesÑTraditional as well as Innovative. Journal of Documentation 58: 422-462.

 

Hjorland, B. and K.N. Pedersen.  2005. A Substantive Theory of Classification for Information Retrieval. Journal of Documentation 61: 582-597.

 

Hjorland, B.  2005. Empiricism, Rationalism and Positivism in Library and Information Science. Journal of Documentation 61: 130-155.