If you're still looking for a course in SLIS at this late date, here's one that you might want to consider.
SLIS L597 Topics in Library and Information Science: The Semantic Web
W 5:45-8:30, LI002 (SLIS Library computer lab)
Instructor, John C. Paolillo (Associate Professor, SLIS and Informatics)
The size and growth of the World-Wide Web has brought with it the
immense challenge of managing and sifting through the information that
has since become available. Traditional search engines have limited
effectiveness in this environment, now that the web holds in excess of
eight billion documents. The World-Wide Web Consortium's proposed
answer to these challenges is known as the Semantic Web.
The Semantic Web comprises a set of new technologies for metadata
definition and markup nested within an architecture of resource sharing
among servers, clients and Artificial Intelligence ^?agents^?. These
technologies promise to allow individual and corporate users to
exercise control over the collection and presentation of information
resources. To be properly understood, the Semantic Web needs to be
approached in terms of its underlying principles in computing and
logic, alongside the social and other goals that it is intended to
address.
This course explores the technologies and applications of the Semantic
Web. Topics addressed include:
* The role of XML and RDF markup and metadata definition languages
* The role of inference and artificial intelligence "reasoning" in
semantic web applications
* The implementation of AI agents in Prolog
* Currently spreading applications of the technologies (blogs and
journals, e-commerce, science, etc.)
* Social, privacy, and other implications of information shared via the
Semantic Web
For more information, follow the following link, or contact the
instructor (paolillo@indiana.edu)
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~paolillo/courses/L597f05/
Put your iPod on random and ask each question before advancing to the next one.
What do you think of me, iPod?
Autechre, Second Bad Vilbel
Will I have a happy life?
St. Germain, Pont des Arts
What do my friends really think of me?
Quantic, Seas & Trees
Do people secretly lust after me?
Cody Chesnutt, Boylife in America
How can I make myself happy?
Television, Marquee Moon
What should I do with my life?
Mr. Scruff, Fish
Why must life be so full of pain?
Joni Mitchell, Refuge of the Roads
Will I die happy?
Mr. Scruff, Chicken in a Box
Can you give me some advice?
David Holmes, Don't Die Just Yet
What do you think happiness is?
The Specials, Ghost Town
What's my favorite fetish?
The Cure, Six Different Ways
As a related bonus, here's an article explaining the algorithm that iTunes' Party Shuffle function uses to put together playlists.
