School of Information 666
Representation and Organization of Information Resources

Course covers four broad areas which are crucial to an understanding of organization. These include representation and the creation of surrogates, including basic concepts and techniques for representing the content and structure of information resources; principles and practices which are used to identify appropriate parameters to serve as access points and associated labels to describe them; ways of organizing and viewing a collection of representations; and the impact of these decisions on users and their uses of systems which are organized in various ways.

Format includes lectures; hands-on, small-group in-class exercises; weekly assignments; and a major group project which will explore in depth some specific application which will make use of principles and techniques for effective organization, design, and implementation of a small system.

Emphasizes three levels and layers: theory, trends, traditions, issues -- understanding the why; examples -- specific models, from contemporary information settings, which illustrate the theory; and practice -- hands-on practice using existing models and creating new ones.

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