Digital Knowledge Organisation
Course code
COD1.DT
old course code
COD1
Course title in Estonian
Digitaalinformatsiooni korraldus
Course title in English
Digital Knowledge Organisation
ECTS credits
15.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
- To create opprotunities for the development of knowledge and understanding on different metadata formats for describing digital documents.
-To create preconditions for the development of the analytical framework needed to understand secure interoperability between metadata formats.
-To create preconditions for the development of the analytical framework needed to understand secure interoperability between metadata formats.
Brief description of the course
The Course contains the following units:
• Introduction: knowledge organization, metadata, digital revolution, history of non-book bound information systems, digital media, digital document, and digital library.
• Indexing: principles of indexing, owner based indexing; collection based indexing, user-based indexing.
• Ontologies: bibliographic languages, document languages and work languages, subject languages, ontologies.
• Metadata and interoperability: types of metadata (descriptive, structural, administrative), Dublin Core and MARC, levels of interoperability (schema, record, repository levels).
• Semantic web: technologies for developing the semantic web, XML, RDF, RDF Schema (RDFS), OWL (Web Ontology Language)
• Linked data: ontology modelling revisited, interoperability recapitulated, the data silo problem, linked data.
• Libraries and linked data: bibliographic description in the linked data landscape, subject languages, document and work languages.
• Introduction: knowledge organization, metadata, digital revolution, history of non-book bound information systems, digital media, digital document, and digital library.
• Indexing: principles of indexing, owner based indexing; collection based indexing, user-based indexing.
• Ontologies: bibliographic languages, document languages and work languages, subject languages, ontologies.
• Metadata and interoperability: types of metadata (descriptive, structural, administrative), Dublin Core and MARC, levels of interoperability (schema, record, repository levels).
• Semantic web: technologies for developing the semantic web, XML, RDF, RDF Schema (RDFS), OWL (Web Ontology Language)
• Linked data: ontology modelling revisited, interoperability recapitulated, the data silo problem, linked data.
• Libraries and linked data: bibliographic description in the linked data landscape, subject languages, document and work languages.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- has wide knowledge about standards used for developing the semantic web;
- has advanced knowledge about different forms of digital libraries;
- has advanced knowledge of different metadata formats for describing digital documents;
- has thorough knowledge of secure interoperability between metadata formats;
- has thorough knowledge about the relationships between traditional tools for subject indexing, such as thesauri and subject headings, and ontologies.
- has wide knowledge about standards used for developing the semantic web;
- has advanced knowledge about different forms of digital libraries;
- has advanced knowledge of different metadata formats for describing digital documents;
- has thorough knowledge of secure interoperability between metadata formats;
- has thorough knowledge about the relationships between traditional tools for subject indexing, such as thesauri and subject headings, and ontologies.
Teacher
Prof Francesco Zanichelli
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