LIBR 502 Foundations of Resource Description and Access Assignment.xml Assignments 10% Assignment 1 2010 January 19 20% Assignment 2 2010 February 9 20% Assignment 3 2010 March 23 20% Assignmnet 4 2010 April 20 30% All assignments are to be turned on the date due during class. Class attendance and participation is an important element of the course. Participation grades reflect the quality and regularity of student participation in class discussion, as well as exercises completed during class sessions. Schedule.xml Schedule Week 1 2010 January 5 Introduction to resource description and access Taylor Ch. 1 Week 2 2010 January 12 Documents and their representations and contexts of use Levy, 2001 (CCM) White, 2002 (CCM) Week 3 2010 January 19 Introduction to networked document representation: systems and standards; bibliographic citations Taylor Ch. 2,5,6 (2nd ed: 2,4,5) Assignment 1 Week 4 2010 January 26 Metadata principles for description and sharing Taylor Ch. 4,7 (2nd ed: 6,7) Intner, Lazinger, & Weis, 2006 (CCM) Elings & Waibel, 2007 (CCM) Week 5 2010 Feburary 2 Principles of catalogues and cataloguing: objectives, access points, authority control – part 1 Taylor Ch. 8 Hagler, 1997 (CCM) Week 6 2010 Feburary 9 Principles of catalogues and cataloguing: objectives, access points, authority control – part 2 AACR2r (CCM) Tillett, 2001 (CCM) Assignment 2 2010 Feburary 16 2010 Feburary 23 Week 7 2010 March 2 Bibliographic relationships and document models IFLA Study Group on FRBR (CCM) Carlyle, 2006 (CCM) Week 8 2010 March 9 Subject analysis: concepts and processes Taylor Ch. 9 ISO Standard (CCM) Week 9 2010 March 16 Indexing and controlled vocabularies Taylor Ch. 10 Aitchison, Gilchrest & Bawden, 2000 (CCM) Week 10 2010 March 23 Bibliographic classification Taylor Ch. 11 Rowley,1992 pp. 176-199 (CCM) Arrangement and display of records Assignment 3 Week 11 2010 March 30 Classification and categorization Rowley, 1992 pp. 200-224 (CCM) Berman, 1981 (CCM) Week 12 2010 April 6 Resource description and access on the Web: taxonomies, ontologies, tagging and folksonomies Golder & Huberman 2006(CCM) Week 13 2010 April 13 Course review and wrap up of resource description and access Campbell & Fast, 2004 (CCM) Week 14 2010 April 20 Assignment 4 index.xml Syllabus Master of Library and Information Studies 2009-2010, Winter Session, Term 2 Tuesdays, 8:00-10:50 AM Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 260 Aaron Loehrlein SLAIS, Room 484 Tuesdays, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM (604) 827-3927 aloehr@interchange.ubc.ca

Pre- or co-requisite: LIBR 500, 501 for students in the MLIS and Joint programs.

Serves as an introduction to issues in organization of information and documents including: analysis of intellectual and physical characteristics of documents; principles and practice in surrogate creation, including standards and selection of metadata elements; theory of classification, including semantic relationships and facet analysis; creation of controlled vocabularies; and display and arrangement. Provides the student with the analytical tools to assess how information is organized in an information system.

Upon completion of this course students will: understand the basic nature and characteristics of documents be able to identify core issues in the selection, arrangement, and formation of metadata elements in surrogates be able to describe the basic purposes and processes of authority control be able to analyze subjects on a conceptual level be able to recognize and describe different types of classification schemes and controlled vocabularies articulate the purposes of bibliographic control and resource discovery demonstrate an understanding of the general role of resource description and access in the information transfer process, and its particular role in information systems design and operation

representation, organization, and control of information bibliographic control documents and works in information systems catalogues and their objectives and functions resource description resource access authority control encoding descriptions interpreting documents for their significant characteristics vocabulary control for information systems subject languages classificatory structures metadata for resource discovery semantic web

Class sessions will be a combination of lectures, discussions and in-class exercises.

All students in LIBR 502 are expected to: read the course readings critically in advance of the class session for which they are assigned generate questions and comments and contribute these to class discussions and apply them to written assignments/class exercises respond to and engage with the contributions of the other students with consideration bring personal ideas and discoveries to class relate the class material to students’ professional needs and growth provide periodic feedback on the content and conduct of the course

Required All students should purchase the following course materials: Custom Course Materials (CCM) for LIBR 502 (available from the University Bookstore) Taylor, Arlene G. The Organization of Information. 3rd ed. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004 Pbk ISBN: 978-1591587002 (available from the University Bookstore, Amazon, and other online retailers.) Note: Although the third edition of this book is preferred, the second edition is an acceptable substitute.

Recommended Additional readings will be provided on the course website or in class.

Attendance The calendar states: “Regular attendance is expected of students in all their classes (including lectures, laboratories, tutorials, seminars, etc.). Students who neglect their academic work and assignments may be excluded from the final examinations. Students who are unavoidably absent because of illness or disability should report to their instructors on return to classes.”

Evaluation All assignments will be marked using the evaluative criteria given on the SLAIS web site.

Written & Spoken English Requirement Written and spoken work may receive a lower mark if it is, in the opinion of the instructor, deficient in English.

Disability Accommodation The University accommodates students with disabilities who have registered with the Disability Resource Centre. You must register with the Disability Resource Centre to be granted special accommodations for any on-going conditions.

Religious Accommodation The University accommodates students whose religious obligations conflict with attendance, submitting assignments, or completing scheduled tests and examinations. Please let your instructor know in advance, preferably in the first week of class, if you will require any accommodation on these grounds. Students who plan to be absent for varsity athletics, family obligations, or other similar commitments, cannot assume they will be accommodated, and should discuss their commitments with the instructor before the course drop date. UBC policy on Religious Holidays.

Academic Dishonesty Please review the UBC Calendar Academic regulations for the University policy on cheating, plagiarism, and other forms of academic dishonesty. Also visit and review the contents of these two resources: Plagiarism Resource Centre: For Students and Plagiarism Avoided: Taking Responsibility For Your Work for useful information on avoiding plagiarism and on correct documentation practice. Students are held responsible for knowing and following all University regulations regarding academic dishonesty. If a student does not know how to properly cite a source or what constitutes proper use of a source it is the student's personal responsibility to obtain the needed information and to apply it within University guidelines and policies. If evidence of academic dishonesty is found in a course assignment, previously submitted work in this course may be reviewed for possible academic dishonesty and grades modified as appropriate. University policy requires that all incidents of academic dishonesty must be forwarded to the Dean’s office for review and possible action.

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