UC Berkeley School of Information

IS 245: Organization of Information in Collections

Outline and Schedule

This is a preliminary outline for the course. It is expected to change during the semester.

(Week. Content -- dates -- readings)

  1. Introduction to Course & Metadata -- (Jan 17, 19) -- Readings:

  2. More on Description and Metadata: History of Descriptive Rules -- (Jan 24, 26) -- Readings:

  3. MARC Format and Markup: Online Catalogs -- (Jan 31, Feb 2) -- Readings:

    K. Markey - The Online Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?

    Papers from the Future of Cataloging Meeting, especially...

    Saul Schniderman on the World Digital Library and

  4. Introduction to Description and AACRII -- (Feb 7, 9) -- Readings:

    • Slides from Lecture 7 (Feb 9) download
  5. Choice of Access Points and Form of Names in AACRII -- (Feb 14, 16) -- Readings:

  6. FRBR and Works Description -- (Feb 21, 23) -- Readings: Barbara Tillett - What is FRBR?; IFLA FRBR Report

    • Slides from Lecture 10 download
    • FRBR Discussion (no slides)
  7. TBA -- (Feb 28, Mar 2) -- Readings:

    • No class meetings Feb 28 and Mar 2
  8. MODS and METS -- (Mar 7, 9) -- Readings:

  9. EAD and EAC -- (Mar 14, 16) -- Readings:

  10. Introduction to Subject Access & LCSH -- (Mar 21, 23) -- Readings: Does Topical Metadata Help...

  11. Spring Break -- (Mar 28, 30) -- Readings:

  12. Facetted Thesaurus Design and Development -- (Apr 4, 6) -- Readings: Broughton: Facetted Classification... Thesaurus XML formats

  13. Ontologies and Ontology Development -- (Apr 11, 13) -- Readings: Noy & McGuiness Ontology Development 101

  14. Ontologies, cont. & Automatic Categorization -- (Apr 17, 19) -- Readings: Plaunt and Norgard - An Association-Based Method for Automatic Indexing with a Controlled Vocabulary PDF

  15. TBA -- (Apr 25, 27) -- Readings:

  16. Class Projects Presentation and Discussion -- (May 2, 4) -- Readings: