LIS 415 - Outline - Fall 2008

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Lab sessions are held in the closed-off section of the GSLIS Tech Lab.

Class 1 (September 5)

Topics: Welcome; Administrivia; Where we find ourselves now

Assignment 1: Resource discovery systems

Class 2 (September 12)

Topics: Model; Resource discovery system structure (databases and records); Resource discovery systems and tools; The role of metadata; Metadata types; Introduction to descriptive metadata; Metadata formats and exchange; SGML, XML, RDF

Class 3 (September 19)

Topics: MARC; Metadata structures and content; MODS, MARCXML, EAD, TEI, the Dublin Core; Sources of cataloguing metadata: OCLC

Assignment 2: Metadata

Class 4 (September 26)

Topics: Content standards for cataloguing; AACR2

Assignment 3: Description and access

Class 5 (October 3)

Topics: Access points; Authority control; FRBR & RDA

Class 6 (October 10)

Topics: Subject analysis; Aboutness; Alphabetical subject analysis; Library of Congress subject headings (intro)

Assignment 4: Alphabetical subject analysis

Class 7 (October 17)

Topics: Library of Congress subject headings (cont'd); Sear's; FAST

Lab session: Second hour of class (10:30-11:30)

October 24

Class will not meet (ASIS&T annual conference)

Class 8 (October 31)

Topics: Thesauri (ERIC, AAT); Folksonomy and tagging; Classification; Faceted classification

Assignment 5: Classification

Class 9 (November 7)

Topics: Library of Congress classification (intro)

Lab session: Last hour of class (11:30-12:30)

Class 10 (November 14)

Topics: Library of Congress classification (cont'd); Dewey decimal classification (intro)

Class 11 (November 21)

Topics: Dewey decimal classification (cont'd); Other library classification schemes; Classification applications in networked resource discovery; Information retrieval

Lab session: First hour of class (9:30-10:30)

Class 12 (December 5)

Topics: Sheep to shawl (from 3x5 cards to interoperable digital collections)

Class 13 (December 12)

Topics: Trends and issues; Wrap-up