Organising
Digital Information and Knowledge
Programme
Features
This one-day
course covers all modern tools for organising information,
focusing on taxonomies and thesauri, and gives participants
the chance to construct an outline organisation of their
own.
- Overview
of information organisation
- Metadata
- Controlled
vocabularies
- Ontologies
- Taxonomies
- Thesauri
- Knowledge
organisation on the Internet
- Knowledge
organisation for knowledge management
- Participants'
own examples
Why you should
attend:
Organising
information and knowledge for effective retrieval is of
ever more importance, with the increasing importance of
digital information - especially the Internet and intranets
- and of knowledge management.
This course
gives an overview of the most important tools for information
organisation, focusing on metadata formats, and on subject
description tools, especially taxonomies and thesauri.
Examples are demonstrated from a variety of digital environments,
and participants have the chance to design, in outline,
a information organisation tool for their own situation.
On completing
the course, you will be able to:
- Understand
the tools available for organising information
- Appreciate
how they used in digital environments
- Be able
to evaluate and use metadata formats
- Be able
to evaluate and use taxonomies and thesauri
- Be able
to construct an outline information organisation tool
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Companion Courses:
Metadata : Principles
and Practice
Constructing a Thesaurus
