Nov 09, 2024  
Graduate School Course Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Graduate School Course Catalog 2024-2025

LSIS 5425 - Organization of Information (3)


This course introduces students to basic concepts, theories, principles, standards, and tools of information organization. This course provides an overview of the information organization and retrieval practices in various information environments including libraries and cultural heritage institutions as well as the impact of digital technologies and the World Wide Web on these organizations. Topics covered include organization systems, cataloging and classification theories and practice, metadata schemas, tools for information access, principles of information representation, controlled vocabulary, taxonomy, encoding languages, bibliographic networks, applications of technologies in information organization, understanding information retrieval systems, etc.


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