| Date |
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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) |
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| 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. |
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| Sept. 24 |
Introduction to Digital Libraries |
Class
5 Slides - (Digital Libraries) |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Nov. 5 |
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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 |
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| Nov. 26 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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| Dec. 3 |
Semester review and discussion |
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| Dec. 10 |
Final Project Presentations |
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| Dec. 17 |
Finals week |
Final
Examination -- cumulative, mostly from the quizzes. |