Organization and Representation of Information II

Code:

CINF026

Acronym:

ORI2

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor of Arts in Information Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CINF	44	Plano Oficial a partir de 2008/2009	2	-	7	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The students should acquire competencies to create access points by author/producer of information, by title and by subject, using, in this case, indexing languages (thesauri and classifications); they should also understand and apply authority control techniques for the establishment of access points.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this curricular unit, the students must:

- know how to use controlled language to the establishment of access points by author/producer of information, using the adequate standardization, as well as to establish acce points by titles;

- know how to use controlled indexing languages (thesauri and classifications) to represent and to retrieve information by subject.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

With no pre-requirements.

Program

I The access by information producers and titles: cataloguing

1. Main and secondary access points 1.1. Works under the responsability of only one author (person or corporate body) 1.2. Works of shared responsability 1.3. Compilations and works of requested responsability 1.4. Works of mixed responsability 1.5. Related works 1.6. Special rules

2. The form of access points for information producers and titles 2.1. Names of persons 2.2. Names of corporate bodies 2.3. Titles

3. Producers in archives: the ISAAR(CPF): access points for producers (corporate bodies, persons and families)

II The access by subject: subject indexing

1. The process of subject indexing

1.1. Recognition / Identification of concepts: the Portuguese Standard NP-3715; Informational content analysis - methods - Identification and selection of concepts

1.2. Representation of concepts - access term - notion of coordination - indexing languages

2. Use of  indexing languages: categorial languages and combinatory or vocabular languages

Mandatory literature

CLARK, Doris Hargrett; Authority control : principles, applications and instructions, Chicago : American Library Association, 1990. ISBN: 0-8389-0516-1
CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL DES ARCHIVES. Comité sur les normes de description; ISAAR(CPF) : norme internationale sur les notices d'autorité utilisées pour les archives relatives aux collectivités, aux personnes et aux familles. 2ème éd., Paris : C. I. A., 2004
FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE DOCUMENTATION; Classificação Decimal Universal : edição média em língua portuguesa. 2.ª ed., Brasília : Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, 1987
GIL URDICIAIN, Blanca; Manual de lenguajes documentales. 2.ª ed. revisada y ampliada, Gijón : Ediciones Trea, 2004. ISBN: 84-9704-138-0.
JOINT STEERING COMMITTEE FOR REVISION OF AACR; Anglo-american cataloguing rules. 2nd ed. rev., Ottawa : Canadian Library Association, 1998. ISBN: 0-8389-3485-4.
LANCASTER, F. W.; Thesaurus construction and use : a condensed course, Paris : UNESCO, 1985
MENDES, Maria Teresa Pinto; SIMÕES, Maria da Graça; Indexação por assuntos : princípios gerais e normas, Lisboa : Gabinete de Estudos a&b, 2002. ISBN: 972-98827-0-3.
MORENO FERNÁNDEZ, Luís Miguel; BORGOÑÓS MARTÍNEZ, María Dolores; Teoría y práctica de la Clasificación Decimal Universal (CDU). 2.ª ed. rev, corr. y ampl., Gijón : Ediciones Trea, 2002. ISBN: 84-9704-051-1.
PORTUGAL. Instituto Português da Qualidade. Comissão Técnica 7; Norma portuguesa 3715 : documentação : método para a análise de documentos, determinação do seu conteúdo e selecção de termos de indexação, Lisboa : I.P.Q., 1989.
PORTUGAL. Instituto Português da Qualidade. Comissão Técnica 7; Norma Portuguesa 4036 : documentação : tesauros monolingues : directivas para a sua construção e desenvolvimento, Lisboa : I.P.Q., 1993.
Regras de Catalogação : descrição e acesso de recursos bibliográficos nas bibliotecas de língua portuguesa. Concepção e redacção José Carlos Sottomayor, Lisboa : BAD - Associação portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas, 2008. ISBN: 972-9067-38-9
Regras portuguesas de catalogação. Coordenação técnica, revisão e índices Armando Nobre de Gusmão, Fernanda Maria Guedes de Campos , José Carlos Sottomayor. 2.ª reimp., Lisboa : Biblioteca Nacional, 1999. vol. 1
TAYLOR, Arlene G.; The Organization of information. 2nd ed., Westport, Connecticut; London : Libraries Unlimited, 2004. ISBN: 1-56308-969-6.
UNISIST; Principes d'indexation, Paris : UNESCO, 1975.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The theoretical classes will have the support of presentations and of several standards used in this curricular unit.

In the practical classes will be done application exercises (cataloguing and subject indexing).

The tutorial sessions will be devoted to the clearing up of doubts and the supervision of works.

keywords

Humanities > Information science

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	57,00
Frequência das aulas	70,00
Trabalho de investigação	60,00
Total:	187,00

Eligibility for exams

The presence in the classes (75% obligatory) is considered an indispensable condition to the approval in the curricular unit.

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation consists on an individual or group (2 students) assessment (A) and a final examination (FE). Each one of these evaluation components counts 50% for the final classification. The student must have at least 9,5 in each one of the evaluation components.

The final classification (FC) is calculeted as follows:

FC = (A + FE) / 2

 

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

 

 

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The worker students are nor dismissed of anyone of the evaluation assessments.

Classification improvement

The improvement of the classification can be obtained through the reformulation of the work and/or the repetition of the final examination.