Course Overview

In this lecture, students will learn about organizing to utilize various information resources efficiently. They learn about information resource analysis and its metadata description, classification and identification methods, targeting information resources that are mainly provided and shared via a network such as WWW or digital library. This lecture also discusses practical metadata descriptions such as Linked Open Data, schema definitions, and ontologies using RDF Schema, OWL, SKOS, etc. for description. In addition, as methods of record identification for electronic information resources, the course explains the identification method using appropriate identifier, data cleaning and automatic identification method.

Learning Achievement

(1) Overview of information organization (Kato, Takaku, Nagamori)
(2) Metadata (Nagamori)
(3) Schema (Nagamori)
(4) Ontology (Nagamori)
(5) Identifiers (Kato)
(6) Identification of information resources (Kato)
(7) Cataloging (Takaku)
(8) Authority control (Takaku)
(9) Classification (Takaku)
(10) Summary and discussion (Kato, Takaku, Nagamori)

Competence

Semantic research ability, System expertise, Resource expertise

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Assignments will be given based on course objectives and graded by the following policy.

Reports (100%)

The requirement for obtaining the credit is to achieve 60 out of 100 or a higher score for the assignments.
The grade (A+ ~ C) is given based on the score for the assignments.

Course schedule

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Takaku Masao,Kato Makoto,Nagamori Mitsuharu

Other information

Classes are offered in English in even-years and in Japanese in odd-years, respectively; Special subjects for Library and Information Science; Teacher Training Course
Identical to 01MBB05 and 01MBC07.
Online(Synchronous) == Online course style and tools ==
Online (Synchronous) with Zoom. In addition, Slack is used for Q&A.

== Assignment details ==
Each lecturer will give assignments on their lecture contents.
The assignments should be submitted at manaba.

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