Organising Digital Information and Knowledge

ASLIB - The Association for Information Management
London, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' 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
...''

Phone:+44 (0) 20 7613 3031

School Address:

Aslib, The Association for Information Management
Holywell Centre
1 Phipp Street
London
EC2A 4PS
United Kingdom

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