BAR601 - DESCRIPTION of INFORMATION SOURCES
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DESCRIPTION of INFORMATION SOURCES | BAR601 | Any Semester/Year | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prequisites | N/A | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Observation Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Case Study | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Bülent Yılmaz | |||||
| Course objective | The purpose of this course is to equip students with required competences and knowledge about the tools used for resource description, and their customization and interoperability and data transformation issues with the use of resource description tools. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Course content consists of following the topics: Resource Description, Metadata for Resource Discovery, Metadata Schemes, Implementation of Metadata Standards, Metadata Creation, Evaluation of Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies, Metadata Quality Assessment for Digital Libraries. | |||||
| References | -Baca, M. (2008). Introduction to metadata (2nd edition). Los Angeles: Getty Research. -Caplan, P. (2003). Metadata fundamentals for all librarians. Chicago: American Library Association Glushko, R. J. (2015). The Discipline of organizing: Professional edition (3rd Edition). O?reilly Media. -Hider, P. (2012). Information resource description: creating and managing metadata. London: Facet Publishing. -Liu, J. (2007). Metadata and its applications in the digital library: Approaches and practices. London: Libraries Unlimited. -Miller, S.J. (2011). Metadata for digital collections (How-to-do-it manual). New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction, Information Resources, Fundamentals of Information Organization |
| Week 2 | Historical Background of Information Organization and MARC |
| Week 3 | Conceptual Models in Information Organization: FRBR |
| Week 4 | Conceptual Models in Information Organization: BIBFRAME |
| Week 5 | Resource Description and Access |
| Week 6 | Resource Description and Access II |
| Week 7 | Metadata Standards, Metadata Schemes and Data Models |
| Week 8 | Metadata for different fields and sectors |
| Week 9 | Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and Qualified Dublin Core |
| Week 10 | Metadata Transformation and Mapping Processes and XML |
| Week 11 | Microformats and the Role of Metadata |
| Week 12 | Assessment of Metadata Quality |
| Week 13 | Sharing Metadata and Linked Open Data |
| Week 14 | Roadmap for Information Organization |
| Week 15 | Report/Project presentations |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 1 | 15 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 3 | 20 |
| Presentation | 2 | 20 |
| Project | 1 | 15 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 1 | 30 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 7 | 70 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 30 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 10 | 5 | 50 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| Project | 1 | 9 | 9 |
| Homework assignment | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 32 | 76 | 180 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Graduates have theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of information research at a professional level. | X | ||||
| 2. Graduates determine and define basic problems and their reasons in the field of information research. | X | ||||
| 3. Graduates make advanced level of use of information and communication technologies. | X | ||||
| 4. Graduates are informed about scientific research methods and techniques. | X | ||||
| 5. Graduates make advanced level of use of any research methods about research in the field of information management. | X | ||||
| 6. Graduates analytically and systematically analyze, interpret, evaluate and make use of theoretical and practical information at professional level. | X | ||||
| 7. Graduates independently or as a member of a team determine the problems of the field of information management, create solutions, bring solutions into force and apply them. | X | ||||
| 8. Graduated have a grasp of technical terms both in Turkish and English and they are able to make face-to-face, written or electronic presentations to various audiences about technical/scientific problems and their solutions. | X | ||||
| 9. Graduates follow, evaluate and interpret current affairs in the field of information research. | X | ||||
| 10. Graduates behave accordingly with social, scientific and ethical values during all processes of research. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest