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Course Description
LIS 9202 (Winter 2018)
Thesaurus Construction and Metadata
Course Description
Theory and practice in indexing and in constructing subject retrieval languages in thesaurus form. Distinguishing between controlled and natural language indexing, and between subject headings and index terms. Applying facet analysis to thesaurus construction. Selected topics in the theory of subject analysis.
This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.