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Nanjing University

The Organization of Information

Nanjing University via XuetangX

Overview

With the advent of the era of big data, everyone around us and every enterprise unit in the society have to face the explosive growth of information. How to better organize the flood of information to work and live more efficiently? The Organization of Information will introduce the theory and practice of information organization, so that students can understand how to use the concepts and methods commonly used in organizational systems to process a series of transactions or information in order or structure intentionally and more efficiently. We will discuss how information organization can help solve fundamental problems in many disciplines in the context of big data. Through the combination of theory and practice, we will describe how information organization can provide theoretical and methodological basis for solving practical problems in informatics, library and information science, computer science, data science, business, economics, law and other disciplines.

Syllabus

  • 1 Foundations for Organizing data, information, and knowledge
    • 1.1 The concepts of organizing system
    • 1.2 The concepts of data, information, and knowledge
  • 2 Designing decisions in organizing data, information, and knowledge
    • 2.1 What is being organized?
    • 2.2 Why is it being organized?
    • 2.3 How much is it being organized?
    • 2.4 When is it being organized?
    • 2.5 How (or by whom) is it organized?
    • 2.6 Where is it being organized?
  • 3 Activities in organizing data, information, and knowledge
    • 3.1 Selecting Resources
    • 3.2 Organizing Resources
    • 3.3 Designing Resource-based Interactions
    • 3.4 Maintaining Resources
  • 4 The organizing system roadmap
    • 4.1 The organizing system lifecycle
    • 4.2 Design methodologies
    • 4.3 Defining and scoping the domain
    • 4.4 Identifying requirements
    • 4.5 Design and implementation
  • 5 Resources in Organizing Systems
    • 5.1 Resources and resource identity
    • 5.2 Four distinctions about resources
    • 5.3 Resource names and identifiers
    • 5.4 Resources over time
  • 6 Organization of Knowledge
    • 6.1 Basic concepts of knowledge organization
    • 6.2 Knowledge representation
  • Final Exam

    Taught by

    Jiaqi Yan

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