INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2015
Module 8: Monday October 19 to Sunday October 25

Module Checklist

1. View the introductory video for this module.
2. Read the Understanding Metadata paper.
3. View the first reading commentary video.
4. Read the Petras et al. paper.
5. View the second reading commentary video.
6. Read the Koolen and Kamps paper.
7. View the third reading commentary video.
8. Check ELMS to see if you have an additional reading summary assigned to you this week. If so, complete that summary by midnight Thursday and submit it using ELMS.
9. View the Metadata lecture video.
10. View the Intentional Description lecture video.
11. View the Incidental Description lecture video.
12. View the Linked Data lecture video.
13. On Friday (or later), read the additional reading summaries that were prepared by your classmates this week.
14. Don't forget to post at least one substantive comment to this module's discussion forum.
15. View the Guest Cameo video by Jaap Kamps.
16. Read Project Assignment P8.
17. Watch the exercise explanation video for Project Assignment P8.
18. Complete Project Assignment P8 and submit your results using ELMS.
19. If you want to hear some of the topics in this module presented differently, consider viewing parts of the optional supplementary videos.

Readings

• Introductory Video
  1. Module 8 Introduction
• Reading Commentary Videos
  1. Comments on the Understanding Metadata paper (17 minutes)
  2. Comments on the Petras el al. reading (13 minutes)
  3. Comments on the Koolen and Kamps reading (12 minutes)
• Lecture Videos
  1. Metadata (27 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
  2. Intentional Description (19 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
  3. Incidental Description (16 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
  4. Linked Data (24 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
• Guest Cameo Video
  1. Jaap Kamps (23 minutes) (Web Page) (the audio level is a bit low)
• Additional Required Video
  1. Project Assignment P8 Overview (9 minutes)
• Optional Supplementary Videos
  1. A lecture on Faceted Metadata for Web Search from Marti Hearst's Fall 2005 SIMS 141 course on Search Engines at the University of California, Berkeley.
  2. A talk at Microsoft Research on Entity-Centric Search: Querying by Entities and for Entities by Mianwei Zhou.
  3. An outtake from a 2009 talk in which Matt Cutts answers the question Does Google use the Keywords Meta Tag?
  4. Spring 2011 Full-Session Classroom Video and Slides (streaming)

Project Assignment P8