LIBR 556: Information Design II – Documents (3) -- Course DESCRIPTION
PREREQUISITES: LIBR 500, 501, 502
GOALS: The goal of this course is to provide students with the theoretical and pragmatic knowledge required to understand the processes and techniques involved in creating, organizing, presenting, and using documents in electronic form.
OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course students will:
- Be knowledgeable of the concepts related to the creation of usable electronic text
- Be knowledgeable of the theoretical and research literature on user needs and user models (social and cognitive) as they relate to interaction with electronic or digital information
- Be knowledgeable of the theoretical, research, and professional literature on electronic text design
- Develop expertise in the use of tools for developing electronic texts
CONTENT:
- The use value of electronic documents
- Affordances of electronic and paper documents
- Levels of information-seeking
- Electronic text and the reading process
- Cognitive issues surrounding documents in use
- Context of use
- Structure in information space
- Frameworks for design
- User-centred design
- Use of mark-up languages in structuring information
- TEI, EAD, RDF
- XML and HTML
