Organising Digital
Information and Knowledge, 2 October 2008, at Aslib, London
Programme Features
This one-day course covers all modern tools for organising
information, focusing on taxonomies and thesauri, and gives participants the
chance to construct an outline organisation of their own.
- Overview of information organisation
- Metadata
- Controlled vocabularies
- Ontologies
- Taxonomies
- Thesauri
- Knowledge organisation on the Internet
- Knowledge organisation for knowledge management
- Participants' own examples
Why you should attend:
Organising information and knowledge for effective retrieval is
of ever more importance, with the increasing importance of digital information
- especially the Internet and intranets - and of knowledge management.
This course gives an overview of the most important tools for
information organisation, focusing on metadata formats, and on subject
description tools, especially taxonomies and thesauri. Examples are
demonstrated from a variety of digital environments, and participants have the
chance to design, in outline, a information organisation tool for their own
situation.
On completing the course, you will be able to:
- Understand the tools available for organising information
- Appreciate how they used in digital environments
- Be able to evaluate and use metadata formats
- Be able to evaluate and use taxonomies and thesauri
- Be able to construct an outline information organisation tool
Course
Director: Professor David Bawden
Course fee:
£260+VAT (Aslib Corporate Members) / £325+VAT (Non Members)
To book
your place, please visit: http://www.aslib.com/training/4/22.htmlNicole
Adamides, ASLIB Training
The Holywell
Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London, EC2A
4PS
Tel: 020 7613
3031 Fax: 020 7613 5080
www.aslib.com/training
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