University of Arizona
School of Information Resources & Library Science
IRLS 630: Controlled Vocabularies
Spring 2006 - Syllabus - DRAFT
Schedule of Readings
Important Note: The NISO standard is referred to as Z39.19 and the Information Architecture text is referred to as Rosenfeld & Morville (or R&M).
Week 1, Jan. 16 - Defining Information Architecture
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 1, Defining Information Architecture
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 2, Practising Information Architecture
Week 2, Jan. 23 - Defining Controlled Vocabularies
Read Z39.19, Section 1, Introduction
Read Z39.19, Section 2, Scope of the Standard
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 9: Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata, p. 176 - 197.
Week 3, Jan. 30 - Fundamentals of Information Architecture
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 3: User Needs and Behaviors
Read Rosenfeld & Morvile, Chapter 4: The Anatomy of An Information Architecture
Week 4, Feb. 6 - Distinguishing IA Components
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 5, Organization Systems
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 8, Search Systems
Week 5, Feb. 13 - Information Presentation
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 6, Labeling Systems
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 7, Navigation Systems
Week 6, Feb. 20 - Evaluating WebSites
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 10, Research
Week 7, Feb. 27 - Fundamentals of Controlled Vocabularies
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 9, Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata, p. 198 - 208
Read Z39.19, Section 3 and 4
Week 8, Mar. 5 - Fundamentals of Controlled Vocabularies
Read Rosenfeld & Morville, Chapter 9, Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata, p. 198 - 208
Read Z39.19, Section 3 and 4
Week 9, Mar. 12 - Relationships
Read Z39.19, Section 5
Week 10, Mar. 19 - Spring Break!
Happy Spring Break!
Week 11, Mar. 26 - Thesaurus Construction
Week 12, April 2- Thesaurus Maintenance
Week 13, April 9 - Review
Week 14, April 16 - Information Presentation (continued)
Read Z39.19, Section 6
Read Z39.19, Section 7
Week 15, April 23 - Present Major Project
Week 16, April 30 - Discuss Presentations of Major Project
May 7 Finals week - Submit Major Project
Milestones/Important Dates
May 7 - Final papers and deliverables due
Due Dates for other discussions (assignments) will be given within D2L Assignments tool.