Week one, discussed tonight:

• Boulding, Kenneth. 1956. The Image (Chapter 1).


• Buckland, Michael. 1991. Information as Thing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science [ed. note: hereafter JASIS] 42(5):351-360.


• White, Howard D.; and McCain, Katherine W. 1998. Visualizing a Discipline:  An Author Co-citation Analysis of Information Science, 1972-1995.  JASIS 49:327-355.


• Bates, Marcia. 1999. The Invisible Substrate of Information Science. JASIS 50(12):1043-1050.


• Saracevic, Tefko. 1999. Information Science.   JASIS 50(12):1051-1063.


• Capurro, Rafael; and Hjørland, Birger. 2003. The Concept of Information. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology 37:343-411.


• White, Howard D. 2003. Pathfinder Networks and Author Cocitation Analysis: A
  Remapping of Paradigmatic Information Scientists. JASIST 54(5):423-434.

Discussion questions involved relating those readings to the stuff we read and discussed last quarter, so they're not really meaningful to any of who who are playing along at home.

Bonus: next week's readings:

main reading:

• Wilson, Patrick.  1968.  Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

supplemental readings:

• Smiraglia, Richard P. 2001. The Nature of "A Work" (Chapter 1) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.


• Berners-Lee, Tim; et al.  2001.  The Semantic Web.  Scientific American May, 2001.


• Carlyle, Allyson. 2001. Developing organized information displays for voluminous works: a study of user clustering behavior. Information Processing & Management 37:677-699.


• Fidel, Raya. 1994. User-Centered Indexing. JASIS 45:572-576.


• Weinberg, Bella Hass.  1996.  Complexity In Indexing Systems--Abandonment and Failure: Implications For Organizing The Internet.  Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science.

Essay questions [abridged]:

1. Summarize Wilson


2. Relate Wilson to any 2 other readings this week or last week [above]


3. Relate Wilson to previous seminar.