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| Course: | INFO622 - Content Representation |
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| On Campus Offering: | Spring (eve) |
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| Online Offering: | Fall, Winter, Summer |
| | Faculty: | McCain, Katherine W.
Park, Jung-ran
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| Extended Course Description: | Catalog Course Description:
Focuses on fundamental decisions in designing subject access systems and alternative approaches to indexing. Explores current issues in content representation: principles of subject analysis; natural language vs. vocabulary control; manual, computer-assisted, and automatic indexing; faceted indexing and classification systems; image indexing and retrieval; indexing and the World Wide Web. Includes evaluation of indexer consistency and indexing system performance.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites:
INFO 510 Minimum Grade: C or INFO 522 Minimum Grade: C
Curriculum Role:
INFO622 is an elective in the Digital Libraries concentration. It complements other courses dealing with organization, representation, and retrieval of information resources. It is recommended for all MS(LIS) and MSIS students interested in vocabulary design and problems of surrogation and representation of content in information systems. It is generally taken in the latter half of a student’s program.
Course Rationale:
The problems of representing the content of text and non-text information resources is central to the successful design of information retrieval systems. This course provides a broad overview of the issues and gives the students a range of hand-on experience in designing and applying the vocabularies used in resource representation.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:
• Understand and discuss basic issues in analysis and surrogation of text and non-text information resources
• Analyze and discuss the structure of existing database records for print and digital resources
• Formulate correct statements illustrating basic semantic relationships between concepts
• Construct a prototype thesaurus for post-coordinate indexing and retrieval, using a faceted approach
• Use existing controlled vocabularies to index a collection of images
• Build a crosswalk between an existing metadata structure and Dublin Core
Course Content:
Principal topics and the approximate number of weeks devoted to each are:
• Basic introduction to content representation issues and alternatives (l)
• Surrogation and metadata structures and standards (1)
• Subject analysis & conceptual frameworks (1)
• Representing non-textual information resources (1)
• Classification (1)
• Thesaurus design and construction (1)
• Derived and automatic indexing (1)
• Contextual indexing systems, crosswalks & ontologies (1)
• Information visualization for content representation (1)
• Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of indexing procedures and indexing system performance (l)
Presentation:
Note: Presentation method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Teaching methods include lecture, discussion, and in-class exercises (when appropriate).
Assessment:
Note: Assessment method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Students will be evaluated based on homework assignments, the construction of a small-scale thesaurus, an image indexing project (includes two individual reports and one group report), and class discussion. Preliminary sections of the thesaurus are evaluated but not graded.
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