Postgraduate CUR-INFM110-2021

Information Design

Locate ways to structure data objects inside information organisation and retrieval systems.Cross-reference databases, metadata and mark-up languages. Search for ways to make indexing tools more effective. Address global bibliography standards.

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Subject details

What you'll learn

At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

contextualise technological applications and work processes related to knowledge organization systems and metadata
use international indexing standards to describe information objects
create information products using international standards and approaches
demonstrate cultural competencies when creating information products and tools.

Topics covered

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

Entry requirements

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

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).

Description

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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