3rd Bachelor in Library and Information Technology

Classification sciences

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ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffWATRIN, Jacques
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-BBIB0008/3
Prerequisite

Knowledge and skills acquired during 1st year and 2nd year Classification science courses

Aims and Objectives

At the end of the year, students will be able to design, individually or in groups, a micro-thesaurus on a given subject in accordance with the rules studied during the course, to present a short introduction to the subject matter and to expose the procedure used to carry out the project

Description

Objectives, definition and purpose of indexing in information processing

- Thesaurus design and construction : the successive stages

· Descriptor selection

· Descriptor standardization

· Master entries and semantic relationship

Differents kinds of thesaurus design

Bibliography

AITCHINSON, J. et GILCHRIST, A.Construire un thésaurus : manuel pratique. Paris : ADBS Ed., 1992. (Sciences de l’information. Etudes et techniques), 217 p.

Association française de normalisation. Règles d’établissement des thésaurus monolingues : norme Z 47-100. Paris : AFNOR, 1981.19p.

LAUREILHE, M.Th. Le thésaurus: son rôle, sa structure, son élaboration. 2è éd. Villeurbanne : Presses de l’E.N.S.B., 1981, 88 p.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Lectures on thesaurus design and construction and practical exercises on thesaurus construction

Assessment MethodsOral examinations
Projects or practical work

Individual thesaurus construction project

Oral examination

NotesYes
LanguageFrench

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