Online Courses Handbook 2003

301833 (v.3) Information Studies 203 - Information Design

Area:	School of Media and Information
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	11170 (v.4) Information Studies 101: Information Characteristics and Use
Basic principles involved in structuring information objects and creating the metadata which makes them retrievable. Topics will include - information structures, hypertext, databases, automatic and derived indexing, metadata and description, DTDs and schemas, indexing languages, standards and subject analysis, evaluation of retrieval effectiveness.