School of Information Management & Systems. Spring 2004.
245 Organization of Information in Collections.
Michael Buckland.
Intended Plan.
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Schedule.
1: Jan 21: Introduction:
Why? Information ("Documents").
Collections (Sets). Organizing ("Ordering").
2: Jan 26 & 28: Documents, Collections, & Ordering (arrangement).
3: Feb 2 & 4: Description: Objects, attributes, values. Formats.
4: Feb 10 & 12: Collections. Selection. Evaluation.
5: Feb 16: No class. 18: Thesauri.
6: Feb 23 & 25: Categorization, classification. Access points.
7: Mar 1 & 3: Formats.
8: Mar 8 & 10: Authority control.
9: Mar 15 & 17: Vocabulary.
- Mar 22 & 24: SPRING BREAK
10: Mar 29 & 31: Indexing.
11: Apr 5 & 7: Sorting, ordering.
12: Apr 12 & 14: Syntax.
13: Apr 19 & 21: Document description and representation.
14: Apr 26 & 28: Place and time.
15: May 3, 5, & 10: Synthesis and reports.