FIT5106 - Information organisation - 2017

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Information Technology

Unit guides

Offered

Caulfield

  • Second semester 2017 (Day)
  • Second semester 2017 (Online)

Synopsis

This unit develops understanding of the fundamental principles, concepts and standards that guide the development of information organisation and retrieval systems and web-based information architectures. It deals with standards governing description, distribution and access to information locally and globally cataloguing, indexing, thesaurus construction, classification and metadata for knowledge discovery. It examines the effects of economic, social and technological factors on the development of bibliographic networks and cataloguing operations. Practical sessions deal with the use of major bibliographic tools, schemes and systems for information organisation.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. explain the key principles, concepts and standards that guide the development of information organisation and retrieval systems and web-based information architectures;
  2. apply standard cataloging, classification, indexing, thesaurus construction, and knowledge discovery metadata schemes and tools;
  3. explain the guiding principles behind bibliographic utilities/networks;
  4. use bibliographic software; and
  5. design systems for organising information and facilitating access to information resources in physical collections or digital/web-based repositories.

Assessment

Examination (2 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

  1. Contact hours for on-campus students:
    • 2 hours of lectures
    • One 2-hour laboratory
  2. Study schedule for off-campus students:
    • Off-campus students generally do not attend lecture and tutorial sessions, however should plan to spend equivalent time working through the relevant resources and participating in discussion groups each week.
  3. Additional requirements (all students):
    • A minimum of 8 hours independent study per week for completing lab and project work, private study and revision.

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Chief examiner(s)

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Prohibitions

IMS5017

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