Thursday January 4

Module 1a:  Course overview

·         Exercise 1 (Part 1):  Information objects and their description

Module 1b:  Nature and characteristics of information objects

·         Exercise 1 (Part 2):  Information objects and their description

Tuesday, January 9

Module 2a:  Information systems

·         Exercise 2a:  Information retrieval systems

Thursday, January 11

Module 2b:  Modeling information objects and relationships

·         Exercise 2b:  Exploring RDF

Tuesday, January 16

Module 3a:  Ontologies (guest lecture)

Thursday, January 18

Module 3b:  Metadata standards and schemas

·         Exercise 3:  Exploring metadata schemas

Tuesday, January 23

Module 4a:  Application profiles

·        Mid-Term Assignment Part 1:  Create a metadata schema for the MSIM website.   This is the first installment of your final project.

Thursday, January 25

Module 4b:  Description and access

• Exercise 4:  Administrative metadata/Authority control

Tuesday, January 30

Module 5a:  Authority control and encoding schemes

·         Mid-Term Assignment Part 2:  Define your authority control for your project

Thursday, February 1

Module 5b:  Subject analysis and subject indexing

·         Exercise 5:  Derived and assigned indexing

Tuesday, February 6

Module 6a:  Introduction to controlled vocabularies

·         Exercise 6a:  Exploring controlled vocabularies

Thursday, February 8

Module 6b: Creating controlled vocabularies

·         Exercise 6b:  Constructing controlled vocabularies

·         Mid-Term Assignment due at beginning of class

Tuesday, February 13

Module 7a:  Social tagging (guest lecture)

·         Final Assignment:  Begin creating controlled subject vocabularies for your project

Thursday, February 15

Module 7b:  Semantic relationships and semantic factoring

·         Exercise 7b:  Semantic relationships

Tuesday, February 20

Module 8a:  Facet analysis

·         Exercise 8a:  Facet analysis

Thursday, February 22

Module 8b:  Metadata in action (guest lecture)

Tuesday, February 27

Module 9a:  Construction and use of classification schemes

·         Exercise 9a:  Applications of classification schemes

Thursday, March 1

Module 9b:  Issues in classification

·         Exercise 9b:  Challenges in classification

Tuesday, March 6

Module 10a:  Information displays and arrangement

·         Exercise 10:  Exploring alternate information displays

Thursday, March 8

Module 10b:  Course wrapup and closing discussion (guest lecture)

·         Final Assignment due at beginning of class