Schedule
& Reading List
for
LIS 900D Information Retrieval on the
Internet
Summer 2007
May 14, 2007/Day I
Session 1 - Introduction & Overview
Session 2 - Internet Applications, Resources, & Retrieval Tools;
Composition & Taxonomy of Internet IR Tools
- *Chu, Heting. (2003). "Internet retrieval systems - The newest
member in the family of IR systems". In: Information representation
and retrieval in the digital age. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
pp. 123-140.
- Lawrence, Steve, and Giles, C. Lee. (July 8, 1999). Accessibility
of information on the Web. Nature, 400, 107-109.
- Lawrence, Steve, and Giles, C. Lee. (April 3, 1998). Searching
the World Wide Web. Science, 280, 98-100.
- *Liddy, Elizabeth. (2001). How a search engine works. Searcher,
9(5),
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/may01/liddy.htm .
Session 3 - Survey of Internet IR Tools
Session 4 - Retrieval Approaches & Techniques
- *Hock, Ran. (2000). Web search engines: (More) features and
commands. Online, 24(3), 17-26.
- *Hock, Ran. (2001). Revisiting Web search engines: Features and
commands. Online, 25(5), 18-24.
- *Sherman, Chris. (2000). The future revisited: What's new with
Web search. Online, 24(3),
http://www.onlinemag.net/OL2000/sherman5.html.
May 15, 2007/Day II
Exercise I - Basic Retrieval
Techques due
Session 1 - Retrieval Approaches & Techniques
(Continued)
Session 2 - Retrieval Strategies
- *Drabenstott, Karen M. (2001). Web search strategy development.
Online, 25(4), 18-27.
- *Kassel, Amelia. (2001). Power searching strategies for success. Searcher,
9(4), 36-42.
- *Price, Gary. (2001). Web search engines FAQs: Questions,
answers, and issues. Searcher, 9(9),
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct01/price.htm .
Session 3 & 4 - Internet Retrieval vs. Other Retrieval
Environments
- *Chu, Heting. (1998). Internet search services vs. online
database services. Proceedings of the 19th National Online Meeting,
New York, May 12-14, 69-75.
- Hildreth, Charles R. (2000). Online catalog design models: Are we
moving in the right direction? A report submitted to the Council on
Library Resources. http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/childret/clr-opac.html.
- Nahl- Jakobovits, Diane, and Tenopir, Carol. (1992). Database
online and on CD-ROMs: How do they differ? Let us count the ways. Database, 15(1), 42-50.
- *Quint, Barbara. (April 17, 2006). Windows Live Academic Search:
The details. Information. Information Today Newsbreaks. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060417-2.shtml.
May 16, 2007/Day III
Exercise II - Comparison of
Different IR Environments due
Session 1 & 2 - Alternative IR on the Internet
Relevance ranking
- Back, Jonathan. (2000). An evaluation of relevancy
ranking techniques used by Internet search engines. Library & Information
Research News, 24(77), 30-34.
- *Notess, Greg R. (2000). The never-ending quest: Search
engine relevance. Online, 24(3), 35-40.
Other alternative techniques
- Bates, Marcia J. (2002). After the dot-bomb: Getting Web
information retrieval right this time. FirstMonday: Peer-reviewed
Journal of the Internet, 7(7),
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_7/bates/index.html.
- Google Labs. (Continuous updating). http://labs.google.com/.
- Hane, Paula. (2004). Britannica subsidiary unveils English-Arabic
search engine. Information Today, News Breaks, April 26, 2004.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040426-1.shtml.
- *Hock, Ran. (2007). Search engines: From Web 0.0 to Web 2.0 and beyond. Online, 31(1), 26-30.
- Khopkar, Yashmeet, et al. (2003). Search engine personalization:
An exploratory study.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_7/khopkar/index.html.
- Notess, Greg. R. (2004). Fiddling with file types. Online,
28(2),
http://www.infotoday.com/online/mar04/OnTheNet.shtml.
- Notess, Greg. R. (2004). Search engine prefixes and shortcuts. Online,
28(3),
http://www.infotoday.com/online/may04/OnTheNet.shtml.
- *Sherman, Chris. (April 20, 2005). Google personalizes the Web.
Search Engine Watch.
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3499046.
- Stirling, Isabel A. (2003). Topic mapping for context, searching
for content. Online, 27(3), 28-32.
- *Sullivan, Danny. (April 21, 2005). Comparing search history
features. Search Engine Watch. http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050421-070616.
- *Wiley, Deborah Lynne. (August/September 1998). Beyond
information retrieval: Ways to providing content in context. Database,
18-22.
Session 3 - Controlled Vocabulary Retrieval
Session 4 - Natural Language Retrieval
May 17, 2007/Day IV
Exercise III - Alternative Retrieval Techniques due
Session 1 - Meaning-based Searching & Semantic Web
- *Berners-Lee, Tim, Hendler, James, and Lassila, Ora. (May 2001).
The Semantic Web. Scientific American, 35-43. Or
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21&sc=I100322
.
- *Bosak, Jon, and Bray, Tim. (1999). XML and the second-generation
Web. Scientific American,
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0008C786-91DB-1CD6-B4A8809EC588EEDF&sc=I100322.
- *Brooks, Terrence A. (2004). The nature of meaning in the age of
Google. Information Research, 9(3), paper no. 180.
http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/paper180.html.
- *Feldman, Susan. (2000). Meaning-based search tools: Find what I
mean, not what I say. Online, 24(3), 49-56.
- Interview with Eric Miller: the Semantic Web - what it is, why we
should care, and the role libraries can play. (August 2002). NewBreed
Librarian. https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/bitstream/1794/1115/1/v2n4.pdf.
- Lu, Shiyong, Dong, Ming, and Fotouhi, Farshad. (2002).
The Semantic Web: Opportunities and challenges for next-generation Web
applications. Information Research 7(4),
http://informationr.net/ir/7-4/paper134.html.
- Notess, Greg R. (2000). Up and coming search
technologies. Online, 24(3), 75-77. Or
http://www.onlinemag.net/OL2000/net5.html .
- *Runciman, Brian. (2006). Isn't it semantic? (An interview with
Sir Tim Berners-Lee.) http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.3337.
Session 2 - Multimedia IR
Session 3 & 4 - Invisible Web & More
- Allen, Maryellen Mott. (2000). Six degrees of affiliation: The
small world of search tools. Online, 24(5), 49-52.
- *Chu, Heting. (2002). Emerging generations of Internet retrieval
tools. InfoToday 2002 Collected Presentations, New York, May
14-16, 234-239.
- *Dahn, Michael. (2000). Spotlight on the invisible Web. Online,
24(4), 57-62.
- *Smith, Ian. (2001). The invisible Web: Where search engines
fear to go.
http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol25/invisible.htm.
- Zillman, Marcus P. (January 17, 2005). Deep Web research 2005.
http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2005.htm.
May 18, 2007/Day V
Exercise IV - Image Retrieval due
Session 1 - Evaluation of Internet Resources
- *Smith, Alastair. (Comp.). (2006). Evaluation of Information
Resources.
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm .
- Wathen, C. Nadine, and Burkell, Jacquelyn. (2002). Believe it or
not: Factors influencing credibility on the Web. Journal of the
American Society for Information Science & Technology, 53(2),
134-144.
Session 2 - Evaluation of Internet Retrieval Tools
- *Abilock, Debbie. (Continuous updating). Choose the best search
for your information need.
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html.
- *Chu, Heting, and Rosenthal, Marilyn. (1996). Search engines for
the World Wide Web: A comparative study and evaluation methodology. Proceedings
of the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information
Science, Baltimore, October 21-26, Vol. 33, 127-135. Or,
http://www.asis.org/annual-96/ElectronicProceedings/chu.html.
- Johnson, F.C., Griffiths, J.R., and Hartley, R.J. (2003). Task
dimentions of user evaluation of information retrieval systems.
Information Research, 8(4), Paper no. 157.
http://informationr.net/ir/8-4/paper157.html.
- Oppenheim, C., et al. (2000). The evaluation of WWW search
engines. Journal of Documentation, 56(2), 190-211.
Session 3 - Q&A for the Final Project
Session 4 - IR on the Internet: Wrap-up
- *Biehl, Kathy. (2006). Bloggers beware: debunking nine copyright myths of the online world. http://www.llrx.com/features/bloggersbeware.htm.
- Brooks, Terrence. (2003). Web search: How the Web has changed
information retrieval. Information Research, 8(3), paper no.
154.
http://informationr.net/ir/8-3/paper154.html.
- Childress, Eric. (2000). Mistakes we love to revisit: 42 ponders
search engines, directories and other Web navigation blunders
wonders. Journal of Internet Cataloging, 3(4), 23-27.
- *Claburn, Thomas. (March 28, 2005). Search
for tomorrow. InformationWeek.
- *Koch, Per and Susanne. (2007). The search engine scene in 2015. http://www.pandia.com/sew/353-search-2015.html.
- Lenssen, Philipp. (2006). 15 search predictions for 2006.
http://webmarketingtoday.blogspot.com/2006/01/15-search-predictions-for-2006.html.
- McLaughlin, Laurianne. (2004). What's next in Web searching? IEEE Distributed Systems Online, 5(11).
- Notess, Greg R. (2002). Dead search engines. Online, 26(3),
http://www.onlinemag.net/may02/OnTheNet.htm.
- Notess, Greg R. (2001). Freshness issues and complexities with
Web search engines. Online, 25(6), 66-68. Or,
http://www.onlinemag.net/OL2001/net11_01.html.
- Notess, Greg R. (2006). Tracking your search history. Online, 30(2), 41-43. Or, http://www.infotoday.com/online/mar06/OnTheNet.shtml.
- Oslen, Stefanie. (July 9, 2003) Google cache raises copyright
concerns. CNET news.com.
http://news.com.com/2102-1038_3-1024234.html .
- Sullivan, Danny. (January 19, 2006). Bush administration demands
search data; Google says No; AOL, MSN & Yahoo said Yes.
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060119-060352.
Note: The final project is due by
Friday, May 25, 2007.