LIS 415 - Outline (Blended) - Fall 2008

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Lab sessions are held in the GSLIS Office.

Class 1 (September 6)

Topics face-to-face (but from 9:15-10:40 only): Welcome; Where we find ourselves now; Model; Resource discovery system structure (databases and records)

Topics online: Administrivia

Assignment 1: Resource discovery systems

Class 2 (September 13)

Topics online: 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 20)

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

Assignment 2: Metadata

Class 4 (September 27)

Topics online: Content standards for cataloguing; AACR2

Assignment 3: Description and access

Class 5 (October 4)

Topics face-to-face: Access points; Authority control; FRBR & RDA

Class 6 (October 11)

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

Assignment 4: Alphabetical subject analysis

Class 7 (October 18)

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

Lab session: Second hour of class (10:15-11:15)

October 25

Class will not meet face-to-face or virtually (ASIS&T annual conference)

Class 8 (November 1)

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

Assignment 5: Classification

Class 9 (November 8)

Topics face-to-face: Library of Congress classification (intro)

Lab session: Last hour of class (11:15-12:15)

Class 10 (November 15)

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

Class 11 (November 22)

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

Lab session: First hour of class (9:15-10:15)

Class 12 (December 6)

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

Class 13 (December 13)

Topics face-to-face (but from 9:15-10:40 only): Trends and issues; Wrap-up