Knowledge Organisation and Metadata

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

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-INFM110-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).

This subject was previously known as INFM110 Information Design.

The organisation of information and knowledge is critical to ensuring its effective use and safe keeping. In this subject students will learn about knowledge organisation systems and metadata. Hands-on experiential learning using various information resources related to information science indexing and metadata techniques form the core content.

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