CSC 9010: Search Technologies & Personal Information Management

Fall 2008



Date

Topic:
 readings and other resources

Assignment
Presenters
and materials
Aug. 27
Class overview
Academic Integrity

What is PIM? Some resources

Search: An information retrieval task. 
A brief overview of the Web Search model
Introduction to the principles of information retrieval.  Broad introduction to be continued after you have read about the subject.
Do the online
academic integrity quiz
Read Chapter 10 Information Retrieval and Descriptive Metadata  William Arms

Dr. Cassel
Intro to Information Retrieval
Sept. 3
Review and discussion of the William Arms chapter on Information Retrieval.
Examples and exercises relative to the Vector Model in information retrieval

Project team formations and planning for the semester projects
Read
Web Search Engines: Part 1 and Part 2
by David Hawking
They appear in IEEE Computer Magazine
Volume 39 Issues 6 and 8
Find them through the Villanova Library
Keep a record of your experience getting to these articles through the Falvey Library interface
Information Description and IR Concepts
Sept. 10
Web Search -- what we know

Preliminary project plans presented


Class 3 Slides (Web Search Articles)
Sept. 17
Online/Asynchronous class
Do quiz - online - no collaboration, no resources - Look in the WebCT/Blackboard site.  If I cannot manage to get the online quiz working, I will e-mail a quiz to each of you.  Quiz covers material of September 3 and 10 and something from before then.

Be sure to watch the video that is linked to the class notes from last week. 

In teams, install lucene and use it for simple search.  Start with the demo provided at the apache lucene site.  (See the e-mail sent to each of you for complete directions.)  See  sample code,  an early tutorial,  and another early tutorial, something a bit newer, and the lucene page in the Apache project. 
 
Sept. 24

Introduction to Digital Libraries
Class 5 Slides - (Digital Libraries)
Oct. 1

Do online quiz.
Read The Disappearing Desktop: PIM 2008
The introduction to the PIM 2008 workshop at CHI
Jaime Teevan, William Jones
ACM Digital Library: 
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1358628.1358956
Choose one article from the workshop, read it and summarize it. 
Your summary should be at least one full page, but not more than 2 pages.

Oct. 8

Come prepared to give a ten minute presentation per team on the plans for your project.  Give the subject of the project, your time frame, and an initial description of the expected outcome.  E-mail me if you would like more information about this or any help with it.  Please put "PIM" in the subject of the mail so that I can easily find your messages.

We will continue the Digital Libraries material, finishing the slides from Class 5.  We will make sure that everything is in place for serious work on the projects. 

Oct. 15
Fall Break

Oct. 22

Quiz (in person this time).  Mid semester class review
Search Engines and Navigation (paper sent to class by e-mail, also available in the ACM Digtial Library.)  Paper: Improved Search Engines and Navigation Preference in Personal Information Management.  Bergman et al.  ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
Class slides
Oct. 29

 Paper:  How People Find Personal Information and How People Keep and Organize Personal Information from Personal Informatio Management by William Jones and Jaime Teevan.
Class slides
Nov. 5

Quiz
Paper: (finish How People Keep and Organize Personal Information)  Also: How People Manage Personal Information over a Lifetime  from Personal Information Management.
Class slides
Nov. 12

Project Updates - 15 to 20 minute update on the status of each project.
Be sure that each member of the team speaks and that the role of each team member is clear
Managing Personal Health Information.  Paper link  sent.
Class slides- KeepEverything

Class slides-Health
Nov. 19

Quiz
Fragmentation of Personal Information -- two articles mailed to class
Class slides-Project fragmentation


Nov. 26
Thanksgiving Break


Dec. 3

Semester review and discussion

Dec. 10

Final Project Presentations

Dec. 17
Finals week
Final Examination -- cumulative, mostly from the quizzes.


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