Modified: June 1, 2008

San Jose State University
School of Library and Information Science
LIBR 202  Information Retrieval - dr. twining
Welcome/ Greensheet / Class Schedule and Assignments / Grading / Blackboard

Attribute Elicitation Exercise/ Assignment 1 / Assignment 2 / Assignment 3

This schedule is flexible, meant to guide our learning, not dictate it.
* The Summer 2008 semester begins Monday, June 2, and lasts for 10 weeks.
Each new "week" on the schedule below (first column) begins on subsequent Sundays.
Assignment are due on the last day of the week in which they are posted.

SJSU Academic Calendar

SEMESTER
Readings
Individual
Group
Summmer
Semester

Spring/Fall
Semester

WEEK:
WEEK:

 

1

 

1

Introduction to 202

Glut (all)

About Collaboration

More about Collaboration

Blackboard Discussions:
Introductions, Q&A,
Professor's Forum: How to read for this class

2
2

ABOUT DATABASES
The following resources are offered to help you learn the basics of databases (use as needed):

A primer on databases and catalogs

The Great Database Page including this wonderful
Visual of a database

Databasics I: Records and queries and keys, oh my! - From GeekGrils

Begin retrieving Supplemental Readings
Locate and retrieve at least 15 articles from supplemental readings, for use in Assignment 3 and weekly readings discussions

 

 

 

Blackboard Discussion:
Attribute Elicitation Exercise , Part 1

3

Blackboard Discussion:
Attribute Elicitation Exercise, Part 2

3
4
Chowdhury Ch 3-5
Online Exam #1 Due
Blackboard Discussion:
Warming up our Thinking : A Model for LIS
5

Retrieve Handouts
from Course Documents in Blackboard and Review

Groups Form, Begin Assignment 1

Blackboard Discussion:
What is information?

4
6

Chowdhury Ch 9

Understanding MARC
Blackboard Discussion:
Information Measures:
Relevance


7
Online Exam #2 Due
Blackboard Discussion:
Information measures (cont.)
Pertinence, Recall, Precision
5
8
Blackboard Discussion:
Classification
9

Chowdhury Ch 15-16

How Boolean Logic Works

Online Exam #3 Due
Blackboard Discussion:
Classification, Cont.
6
10

Chowdhury Ch 17-18

Evaluating IR Systems:
Criteria
Tutorials

Assignment 1, Part A Due

Blackboard Discussion:
Boolean Logic

 

11
Chowdhury Ch 19-21
Online Exam #4 Due
Blackboard Discussion:
Evaluating IR Systems
7
12
Assignment 1, Part B Due
Blackboard Discussion:
Information Users and Behaviors:
Info Seeking Models
13
8
14
Assignment 2 - Classification Scheme
Due
Blackboard Discussion:
Indices
9
15

Online Exam #5 Due

Blackboard Discussion:
Metadata, Tagging, Other Topics

10
16
Assignment 3- Index
Due

Blackboard Discussion:

The future of IR
Last week of Semester = Final Exam = Professor's Option

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