Systems & Metadata Analysis

Course aim

To provide students with the theoretical foundations, knowledge and skills in subject cataloguing, classification and metadata schemas to organise resources in all formats to international standards to assist information discovery.

Course content

Overview of metadata, repositories, archives, museums, and galleries; theories, principles and practices of business and subject analysis and classification; the application of major classification schemes for library, records, and archival management environments; the theoretical foundations, structure, and application of international subject cataloguing schemes; research in the field of linked library data, ontologies, and the semantic web the value of standardised recordkeeping metadata; metadata standards, metadata architecture, schemas, and applications for describing and organising digital objects and collections; metadata interoperability, access, and data reuse; metadata standards, types, and schema; provenance and original order; classification schemes, DDC, LC classification, UDC; and research information description, access, organisational impacts and information retrieval.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
INFS 5107	Technological Foundations
INFS 5104	Information Management Foundations

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Practical (Lecture and Practical)	3 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External (Online resources, moderated discussions and other online interactions)	N/A x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Essay, Practical subject cataloguing and classification exercises, Report and Metadata Schema

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4A)
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