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Hacettepe University Department of Information Management
DOK 324 Principles of Information Retrieval (Fall 2003)
Time and place: Fridays 13:10-16:00 (Office)
Instructor: Yaþar Tonta (e-mail: tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr; tel: 297 82 04)
Course web site: http://http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/fall2003/bby201/
Course Objectives | Reading List
Note: Additional readings will be assigned when needed.
Week/Subject
0 No class (10/10)
1 Introduction to Course (17/10)
Read Svenonius, Chapter 1; Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapter 2; Taylor, Chapters 1 & 2, Tonta, "Bilgi Eriþim Sorunlarý ve Internet" (see Reading List for full citations)
2 An Historical Approach to IR (24/10)
Read Wells, H.G. "World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia," (http://art-bin.com/art/obrain.html). (Originally appeared in Encyclopédie Française, August 1937.)
Read Bush, V. "As We May Think" (http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm/) (Originally appeared in Atlantic Monthly, 1945.) (This seminal article is a difficult one but well worth reading if you can.)
3 Document Retrieval Systems (31/10)
Read Buckland’s articles
entitled: “Information as thing”, “What is a
‘document’”? and “What is a ‘digital
document’”? (the last two are similar)
Buckland, Chapter 8.
Read Tonta, "Bilgi Eriþim Sistemleri"
4 Document Retrieval System Designs (07/11)
Read Svenonius, Chapter 2;
Taylor, Chapter 10.
Read Danskin & Chapman,
Bibliographic
Records in the Computer Age.. Full report of IFLA’s Study Group on Functional
Requirements for Bibliographic Records can also be skimmed through.
5 Some Fundamental Concepts of IR (14/11)
6 Midterm 1 (21/11)
7 Holiday (28/11)
8 Document Retrieval System Evaluation (05/12)
Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapter 3; Buckland, Chapter 10.
9 Hypertext; The Indexing Problem; Metadata (12/12)
Read Buckland, Chapter 12; Taylor, Chapters 5, 7-8; Brand, Daly ve Myers, Metadata demystified.
10 Internet Search Engines & IR Principles (19/12)
Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapters 2 & 3; Gudivada
11 Logic and IR/Expert Systems/ Bibliometrics (26/12)
Read Croft, "What Do People Want From Information Retrieval?" D-Lib Magazine (November 1995).
12 Midterm 2 (02/01)
13 Visual Information Retrieval and the Future of IR/Conclusion and Evaluation (09/01)
Yaþar Tonta
Last updated: Oct 16, 2003