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.<\/p>\n
– Overview of information organisation
\n– Metadata
\n– Controlled vocabularies
\n– Ontologies
\n– Taxonomies
\n– Thesauri
\n– Knowledge organisation on the Internet
\n– Knowledge organisation for knowledge management
\n– Participants’ own examples<\/p>\n
Why you should attend:<\/p>\n
Organising information and knowledge for effective retrieval is of ever more importance, with the increasing importance of digital information
\n– especially the Internet and intranets – and of knowledge management.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
On completing the course, you will be able to:<\/p>\n
– Understand the tools available for organising information
\n– Appreciate how they used in digital environments
\n– Be able to evaluate and use metadata formats
\n– Be able to evaluate and use taxonomies and thesauri
\n– Be able to construct an outline information organisation tool<\/p>\n
Course
\nDirector: Professor David Bawden<\/p>\n
Course fee:
\n\u00c2\u00a3260+VAT (Aslib Corporate Members) \/ \u00c2\u00a3325+VAT (Non Members)<\/p>\n
To book your place, please visit: http:\/\/www.aslib.com\/training\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading