Fundamentals of authority control 2700-L-API-D2PKS
The course aims to provide students with an overview of roles, features and the fundamentals of designing selected vocabulary control tools such as lists, synonym rings, authority files (Library of Congress, Bibliothèque nationale de France, NUKAT, Biblioteka Narodowa, VIAF), and thesauri. The professional terminology, the methods of using and constructing are presented. Students learn about both the traditional methods of metadata control and modern solutions based on the Linked Data model and the Semantic Web technologies. In addition, the course covers the fundamentals of indexing information resources.
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Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students:
KNOWLEDGE:
- know the vocabulary control terminology (K_W03).
- know the procedure for indexing and the rules and tools of vocabulary control (K_W06).
SKILLS:
- are capable of using vocabulary control terminology in order to solve a problem with access to information resources (K_U01).
- are capable of pointing and using vocabulary control tools to create the description of a document and find a relevant information resource (K_U03).
OTHER COMPETENCES:
- can critically assess and develop their skills in indexing information resources (K_K01).
Assessment criteria
1. Attendance:
a) full - 25%;
b) one absence - 20%;
c) two absences - 15%;
d) three absences and more - 0%.
2) Creation of thesaurus - up to 75%.
Final grades:
5: 91-100%
4,5: 81-90%
4: 71-80%
3,5: 61-70%
3: 50-60%
Final positive grades cannot be improved.
Practical placement
none
Bibliography
1. ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (R2010). Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. WWW: https://groups.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/12591/z39-19-2005r2010.pdf.
2. Bojar Bożenna (red.): Słownik encyklopedyczny informacji, języków i systemów informacyjno-wyszukiwawczych. Warszawa 2002.
3. Vanda Broughton: Essential thesaurus construction. London 2006.
4. Umberto Eco: Szaleństwo katalogowania. Poznań 2009.
5. Michael Dylan Foster: Yōkai: tajemnicze stwory w kulturze japońskiej. Kraków 2017.
6. Przepisy katalogowania BN. WWW: http://przepisy.bn.org.pl/.
7. Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango: Architektura informacji w serwisach internetowych i nie tylko. Gliwice 2017.
8. Marcin Roszkowski: Kartoteki nazw osobowych w środowisku sieciowym. „Biuletyn EBIB” 2015, nr 160. WWW: http://open.ebib.pl/ojs/index.php/ebib/article/view/380.
9. Marcin Roszkowski: Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) - reprezentacja wiedzy w sieciowych systemach organizacji wiedzy. WWW: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258206615_Simple_Knowledge_Organization_System_SKOS_-_reprezentacja_wiedzy_w_sieciowych_systemach_organizacji_wiedzy
10. Marcin Sikorski: Interakcja człowiek-komputer. Warszawa 2017.
11. Jenifer Tidwell, Charles Brewer, Aynne Valencia: Projektowanie interfejsów: sprawdzone wzorce projektowe. Gliwice 2021.
12. Jadwiga Woźniak-Kasperek: Podstawy budowy tezaurusa. Warszawa 2005.
Additional information
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