ILS-Z 503 REPRESENTATION AND ORGANIZATION (3 CR.)

Introduces students to various disciplines: approaches to the understanding, organization, representation (summarizing) and use of knowledge information. This survey looks for commonality among the approaches taken in information science, cognitive psychology, semiotics, and artificial intelligence, among others. The goal is to identify criteria for evaluation and improvement of ways to organize and represent information for future retrieval. Information systems currently used in libraries and information centers will be studied as examples. Emphasis in the course is on concepts and ideas, with appropriate attention to terminology and technology.