After completing the course a student is expected to be able to:
-be familiar with the methods of knowledge organization and their historical development -master the basic concepts of cataloguing, classification and document representation -be familiar with methods of knowledge organization both in digital environments and in library systems and databases -analyze the background philosophies of knowledge organization methods -be familiar with the theoretical foundations and ideas regarding knowledge organization.
Contents
Documentation, document representation, knowledge organization, classification systems, cataloguing, metadata, tagging, folksonomies, recommendation systems, personal information management.
Modes of study
Option
1
Available for:
Degree Programme Students
Other Students
Open University Students
Doctoral Students
Exchange Students
Written exam
In
Finnish
In
English
Option
2
Available for:
Degree Programme Students
Other Students
Open University Students
Doctoral Students
Exchange Students
Essay
In
Finnish
In
English
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Study materials
Peters, Folksonomies: indexing and retrieval in web 2.0. Walter de Gruyter. 2009.
Olson, The power to name: locating the limits of subject representation in libraries. Springer. 2002.
Bowker & Star, Sorting things out: classification and its consequences. MIT Press. 2000. (Introduction (1-33), 9 & 10)
Note: In lieu of Olson it is also possible to choose the following: Morville, Ambient findability. O´Reilly. 2005.