| Contact Information |
Instructor: Daniel N. Joudrey
E-mail: joudrey@simmons.edu
Office: P-205B
Phone: (617) 521-2863 |
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| Unit 7: Aboutness and Subject Analysis |
The process of determining what subject(s) an information resources is about is examined.
Topics: Nature of Aboutness, Aproaches to Aboutness, The work of Wilson, Langridge, Taylor, and Joudrey, Consistency
- What is the process for determining subject content?
- How is subject content assigned to non-textual materials?
- How do search engines represent the concept of depth indexing?
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Required Readings |
Taylor, The Organization of Information, Chapter 9 |
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Recommended Readings
Articles |
Wellish, "Aboutness
and ..."
Hickey, "Subject Analysis..."
Taylor, "On the Subject ... "
Pettee, "The Subject Approach to Books...," pp. 94-98. |
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Vocabulary |
- Aboutness
- Author's intent
- Consistency
- Depth indexing
- Disciplines
- Document retrieval vs. Information retrieval
- Exhaustivity
- Figure-Ground method
- Forms of Knowledge
- Forms of Writing
- Objective method
- Purposive method
- Rules of Selection and Rejection
- Subject analysis
- Summarization
- Topic
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Course Outline |
- Unit 1: Introduction and Environments
- Unit 2: Retrieval Tools & Current Systems
- Unit 3: Introduction to Metadata
- Unit 4: Encoding Standards
- Unit 5: Description
- Unit 6: Access & Authority Control
- Unit 7 : Aboutness & Subject Analysis
- Unit 8 : Vocabulary Control
- Unit 9 : Categorization, Classification, & Arrangement
- Unit 10: The Past
- Unit 11: The Future
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| Updated June 16, 2008. |