The
material has been fully
revised, and is compatible
with the 2005 British Standard
BS8723-2:2005 'Structured
vocabularies for information
retrieval - thesauri'.
Participants
follow the course individually,
with the assistance of Dr
David Bawden as course tutor.
All
materials are supplied in
electronic form. Participants
will need e-mail and web
access, and a word processor;
no specialised software
is required.
The
course is divided into eight
sessions, each including
session notes, a worked
example, internet thesaurus
examples and recommended
reading, and an exercise
for participants to complete
and send to the tutor for
feedback. The sessions cover:
thesaurus basics; preliminary
analysis; getting the overall
structure; collecting terms
in thesaurus form; adding
term relations; adding term
information; displaying
the thesaurus; maintaining
and updating the thesaurus.
From
the time participants start
the course, they have three
months to complete it. Most
participants will take,
on average, between 2 and
3 hours to complete each
session.
On
successful completion of
the course participants
will have understanding,
and a little experience,
of all of the stages of
thesaurus construction.
No prior knowledge of thesauri
is necessary, although participants
should have an understanding
of basic ideas of information
management and information
retrieval.
