Organization and Representation of Information I

Code:

CINF025

Acronym:

ORI1

Instance: 2013/2014 - 1S

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	42	Plano Oficial a partir de 2008/2009	2	-	7	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course teaches students the principles and techniques of information representation and will help them to demonstrate the ability and competence in applying techniques, standards and other instruments for organizing and representing information and database construction.

Learning outcomes and competences

Understand the theoretical and methodological principles for the organization and representation of information.

Understand the structure of information retrieval tools.

Acquire the ability to use and apply standards of bibliographic and archival description.

Working method

Presencial

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

Not applicable

Program

1. Organizing and representing information: contextualization in both technical and morphological poles of the “quadripolar” method. 2. The information flow: production/reunion-treatment-use/diffusion. 3. Accessing information: concepts and instruments. 4. Principles and cataloguing standards. 4.1. International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD). 4.2. The ISBD(G) - General International Standard Bibliographic Description. 4.2.1. The necessary data elements to identify documents/information. 4.2.2. Sources of information 4.2.3. Outline of the ISBD, punctuation data elements order. 4.3. ISBD for specific type of documents: ISBD(M), ISBD(CR), ISBD(ER), ISBD(NBM), ISBD(CM). 4.4. FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) – the impact on the future ISBD program. 4.5. The ISBD consolidated: scope and structure. Reasons for their appearance. 4.6. Guidelines for the application of the ISBDs to the description of Component Parts 5. Standards for archival description: ISAD(G)

Mandatory literature

Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed.,2002 rev., American Library Association, 2004. ISBN: 978-0-8389-3546-0
CONSELHO INTERNACIONAL DE ARQUIVOS ; ISAD(G) : norma geral internacional de descrição arquivística: adoptada pelo Comité de Normas de Descrição, Estocolmo, Suécia, 19-22 de Setembro de 1999 , IAN/TT, 2004. ISBN: 972-8107-69-2
CONSELHO INTERNACIONAL DE ARQUIVOS. Comité das Normas de Descrição. Sub-Comité sobre os Instrumentos de Descrição; Orientações para a preparação e apresentação de instrumentos de descrição : relatório do Sub-Comité sobre os Instrumentos de Descrição. Tradução portuguesa, 2001
DIRECÇÃO GERAL DE ARQUIVOS. Programa de Normalização da Descrição em Arquivo. Grupo de Trabalho de Normalização da Descrição em Arquivo; Orientações para a descrição arquivística, DGARQ, 2007. ISBN: 978-972-8107-91-8
Gonçalves, Maria da Conceição Osório Dias 730; Princípios para a aplicação das ISBDs à descrição das partes componentes
IFLA ; ISBD(S): descrição bibliográfica internacional de publicações em série, BAD, 1984
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CATALOGUING PRINCIPLES, Paris, 1961 ; Report, IFLA, 1981. ISBN: ISBN 0-903043-33-5
IFLA; ISBD(M): descrição bibliográfica internacional normalizada de publicações monográficas. , BAD, 1981
IFLA; ISBD (ER): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources , IFLA, 2004
IFLA. International Office for UBC ; Manual of annotated ISBD(M) examples, IFLA , 1981. ISBN: ISBN 0-903043-36-X
IFLA. Working Group on the ISBD(G) ; ISBD(G): general international standard bibliographic description, IFLA , 1977. ISBN: ISBN 0-903043-18-1
IFLA; ISDB(NBM): descrição bibliográfica internacional normalizada de material não livro, SIIB/ Centro, 1990
IFLA; ISBD (CR): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Serials and Other Continuing Resources, IFLA, 2002
IFLA. Joint Working Group on the ISBD(CM); ISBD(CM): international standard bibliographic description for cartographic material, IFLA , 1997. ISBN: ISBN 0-903043-16-5.
IFLA. Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records ; Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records : final report, Saur, 1998. ISBN: 978-3-598-11382-6.
IFLA. Cataloguing Section ; Statement of International Cataloguing Principles. Draft version, IFLA, 2008
Sottomayor, José Carlos 340; Regras de catalogação. ISBN: 978-972-9067-38-9
Weber, Mary Beth; Describing electronic, digital, and other media using AACR2 and RDA. ISBN: 978-1-85604-684-8

Complementary Bibliography

RIBEIRO, Fernanda ; O Acesso à informação nos arquivos, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Ministério da Ciência e do Ensino Superior, 2002. ISBN: ISBN 972-31-1017-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lessons will be both practical and theoretical, with emphasis on student involvement, and will consist of lecture, discussion and some in-class exercises of bibliographic description of all sorts of documents, using the international standards.

keywords

Humanities > Information science > Library science
Humanities > Information science > Archivistics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	62,00
Frequência das aulas	65,00
Trabalho de investigação	60,00
Total:	187,00

Eligibility for exams

The attendance at 75% of the classes is required, except as required by regulation.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final evaluation will combine an assignment (30%) and a final exam (70%).

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working students are not release of attending all components of evaluation.

Classification improvement

According to FLUP regulation.