Information Design

• • A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.

You won't be able to enrol into this subject if you've already successfully completed or currently enrolled in the following subject(s) as they are considered anti-requisites due to the similarity of the content.

• CUR-LIM225-Information Design (No longer available)

Additional requirements

• Other requirements -

  Administrative access to computing facilities, including reliable access to the Internet and to a PC computer which runs Windows (including Word).

Basic principles involved in structuring information objects and creating the metadata which makes them retrievable. Topics include information structures, hypertext, databases, automatic and derived indexing, metadata and description, document type definitions (DTDs) and schemas, indexing languages, and standards and subject analysis.

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• Investigation (50%)
• Exercise (50%)