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When possible, readings are linked from this page. (You may need to use a UCLA VPN<\/a>.) If no link is present, the reading is posted on BruinLearn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK ONE<\/a> TWO<\/a> THREE<\/a> FOUR<\/a> FIVE<\/a> SIX<\/a> SEVEN<\/a> EIGHT<\/a> NINE<\/a> TEN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 1: Introduction<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In class:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

History of Databases<\/em>, directed by Jon Plutte (Impact Media Group, 2011), https:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/revolution\/memory-storage\/8\/265\/2207<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 2: Precursors<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Robertson, Craig. The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information<\/em> (selections). University of Minnesota Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosenthal, Caitlin. Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management<\/em> (selections). Harvard University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carter, Daniel, Amelia Acker, and Dan Sholler. \u201cInvestigative Approaches to Researching Information Technology Companies.\u201d Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology<\/em> 72, no. 6 (2021): 655\u201366. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/asi.24446<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Optional<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yates, JoAnne. Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management<\/em>.<\/a> Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 3: Beginnings<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Haigh, Thomas. \u201c\u2018A Veritable Bucket of Facts\u2019: Origins of the Data Base Management System.\u201d ACM SIGMOD Record<\/em> 35, no. 2 (2006): 33\u201349. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/1147376.1147382<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grafton, William. \u201cIMS: Past, Present, Future.\u201d Datamation<\/em>, September 1983. https:\/\/archive.computerhistory.org\/resources\/access\/text\/2022\/02\/102796683-05-01-acc.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChapter 3: Making Data Programmable.\u201d In Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms<\/em>, by Amelia Acker. The Information Society Series. MIT Press, 2025. https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/books\/oa-monograph\/6055\/Archiving-MachinesFrom-Punch-Cards-to-Platforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olson, H.A. \u201cExclusivity, Teleology and Hierarchy: Our Aristotelean Legacy.\u201d Knowledge Organization<\/em> 29, no. 2 (1999): 65\u201373. https:\/\/www.imrpress.com\/journal\/KO\/26\/2\/10.5771\/0943-7444-1999-2-65\/pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Optional<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Berman, Uri. Birth of IMS<\/em>. R0367.2017. Computer History Museum, 2007. https:\/\/archive.computerhistory.org\/resources\/access\/text\/2016\/08\/500001032-05-01-acc.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driscoll, Kevin. \u201cFrom Punched Cards to \u2018Big Data\u2019: A Social History of Database Populism.\u201d Communication<\/em> 1, no. 1 (2012): 1\u201333. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7275\/R5B8562P<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 4: Pointing<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Haigh, Thomas. \u201cHow Charles Bachman Invented the DBMS, a Foundation of Our Digital World.\u201d Communications of the ACM<\/em> 59, no. 7 (2016): 25\u201330. https:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/opinion\/how-charles-bachman-invented-the-dbms-a-foundation-of-our-digital-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sections 1 and 2. Metaxides, A., W. B. Helgeson, R. E. Seth, et al. Data Base Task Group Report to the CODASYL Programming Language Committee<\/em>. Association for Computing Machinery, 1971. https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/epdf\/10.1145\/1387145<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sawtelle, Thomas K. The Emerging Role of the Data Base Manager<\/em>. R-1253-PR. United States Airforce Project Rand, 1973. http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ERIC_ED095918<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deleuze, Gilles, F\u00e9lix Guattari, Brian Massumi, and Gilles Deleuze. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia<\/em> (selections). Ed. 2004, Repr. 2011. Continuum, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 5: Relating<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Codd, E. F. \u201cA Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.\u201d Communications of the ACM<\/em> 13, no. 6 (1970): 377\u201387. https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/362384.362685<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darwen, Hugh. \u201cThe Relational Model: Beginning of an Era.\u201d IEEE Annals of the History of Computing<\/em> 34, no. 4 (2012): 30\u201337. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/MAHC.2012.50<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kent, William. \u201cA Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory.\u201d Communications of the ACM<\/em> 26, no. 2 (1983): 120\u201325. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/358024.358054<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mackenzie, Adrian. \u201cMore Parts Than Elements: How Databases Multiply.\u201d Environment and Planning D: Society and Space<\/em> 30, no. 2 (2012): 335\u201350. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1068\/d6710<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For reference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

DB-Engines, \u201cDB-Engines Ranking,\u201d DB-Engines, December 2025, https:\/\/db-engines.com\/en\/ranking<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 6: Snowflakes & Stars<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Because of my illness during Week 4, we\u2019ll devote this week\u2019s class mostly to the readings from Week 5. Please pick one of these articles to read.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kimball, Ralph. \u201cThe Soul of the Data Warehouse, Part One: Drilling Down.\u201d Intelligent Enterprise<\/em> (San Mateo) 6, no. 5 (2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kimball, Ralph. \u201cThe Soul of the Data Warehouse, Part Two: Drilling Across.\u201d Intelligent Enterprise<\/em> (San Mateo) 6, no. 6 (2003): 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haggerty, Kevin D., and Richard V. Ericson. \u201cThe Surveillant Assemblage.\u201d The British Journal of Sociology<\/em> 51, no. 4 (2000): 605\u201322. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00071310020015280<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Littletree, Sandra, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, and Marisa Duarte. \u201cCentering Relationality: A Conceptual Model to Advance Indigenous Knowledge Organization Practices.\u201d Knowledge Organization<\/em> 47, no. 5 (2020): 410\u201326. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5771\/0943-7444-2020-5-410<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 7: Shape-shifting<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Castelle, Michael. \u201cRelational and Non-Relational Models in the Entextualization of Bureaucracy.\u201d Computational Culture<\/em>, no. 3 (November 2013). http:\/\/computationalculture.net\/relational-and-non-relational-models-in-the-entextualization-of-bureaucracy\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dourish, Paul. \u201cNo SQL: The Shifting Materialities of Database Technology.\u201d Computational Culture<\/em>, no. 4 (November 2014). http:\/\/computationalculture.net\/no-sql-the-shifting-materialities-of-database-technology\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angles, Renzo, and Claudio Gutierrez. \u201cSurvey of Graph Database Models.\u201d ACM Comput. Surv.<\/em> 40, no. 1 (2008): 1:1-1:39. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/1322432.1322433<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Useful references<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Marc Seeger, \u201cKey-Value Stores: A Practical Overview,\u201d Ultra-Large-Sites SS09, Stuttgart, Germany, September 21, 2009, https:\/\/blog.marc-seeger.de\/assets\/papers\/Ultra_Large_Sites_SS09-Seeger_Key_Value_Stores.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Bergmann and Cole Stryker, \u201cWhat Is Vector Embedding?,\u201d IBM, June 12, 2024, https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/topics\/vector-embedding<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 8: Clouding<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Abadi, Daniel J., Peter A. Boncz, and Stavros Harizopoulos. \u201cColumn-Oriented Database Systems.\u201d Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment<\/em> 2, no. 2 (2009): 1664\u201365. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14778\/1687553.1687625<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gorelik, Alex. The Enterprise Big Data Lake<\/em>. O\u2019Reilly Media, 2019. https:\/\/learning.oreilly.com\/library\/view\/the-enterprise-big\/9781491931547\/<\/a>. Read chapter one, “Introduction to Data Lakes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlatform Capitalism.\u201d In Platform Capitalism<\/em>, electronic edition, by Nick Srnicek. Theory Redux. Polity, 2017. https:\/\/mudancatecnologicaedinamicacapitalista.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/platform-capitalism.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 9: Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kelly, Makena. \u201cDOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants.\u201d Tags. Wired<\/em>, April 18, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koebler, Jason. \u201cLarry Ellison\u2019s AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here.\u201d 404 Media, September 17, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saunders, Jonny L. \u201cSurveillance Graphs.\u201d Jonny Saunders Internet Website, April 2, 2023. https:\/\/jon-e.net\/surveillance-graphs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iliadis, Andrew, and Amelia Acker. \u201cThe Palantir Files: Public Interest Archives for Platform Accountability.\u201d Information, Communication & Society<\/em> 27, no. 13 (2024): 2343\u201365. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1369118X.2024.2352624<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For reference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Community Justice Exchange. From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition<\/em>. n.d. Accessed April 21, 2025. https:\/\/abolishdatacrim.org\/en\/report\/full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stegeman, John, Kara Doriani O\u2019Shee, and Ryan Peden. \u201cIs a Knowledge Graph a Graph Database?\u201d Neo4j Blog<\/em>, April 25, 2025. https:\/\/neo4j.com\/blog\/knowledge-graph\/knowledge-graph-vs-graph-database\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zamini, Mohamad, Hassan Reza, and Minou Rabiei. \u201cA Review of Knowledge Graph Completion.\u201d arXiv:2208.11652. Preprint, arXiv, August 24, 2022. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48550\/arXiv.2208.11652<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 10: Workshopping and Peer Review<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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James Hannan, ed., A Practical Guide to Data Base Management (Pennsauken, NJ: Auerbach Publishers, 1982).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dionysios C. Tsichritzis and Frederick H. Lochovsky, eds., Data Base Management Systems (New York: Academic Press, 1977).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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