LIS 677 - Subject Analysis and Thesaurus Construction (2008 Winter)
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Basic course documentation

• Brief information on the course
• General information
• Discussions online
• Guidelines to the grade range
• Weekly assignments and preparation
  • Definitions (Week 3)
  • Articles to be ERIC indexed (Week 4)
  • Descriptions to be facet analyzed for comment (Week 5)
  • Descriptions to be facet analyzed for assignment (Week 6)
  • Equivalent terms exercise (Week 7)
  • Semantic relations exercise (Week 8)
  • Descriptions to be indexed with SKY Index (Week 12)
  • Article to be abstracted (Week 13) (SharePoint site only)
• Thesaurus construction project
  • Some questions and answers about the thesaurus construction project
  • Form used to evaluate thesaurus projects
  • Thesaurus project examples

Course resources

• Web pages on thesaurus construction
• Software packages
• Lecture materials (SharePoint site only)
• Blacklist (errors in published sources)
• Accessing the ERIC thesaurus on the Web (Week 4)
• Measuring indexing consistency (Week 4)
• Faceting introduction (Week 6)
• Faceting example (Week 6)
• Finding preferred terms in Dialog (Week 7)
• Web thesaurus displays (Week 8)
• Dialog searching introduction (Week 9)
• Errors in search strategies (Week 10)
• XRefHT32 introduction (Week 11)
• Sample keyword meta tag values (Week 11)
• SKY Index introduction (Week 12)
• Abstracting introduction (Week 13)
• Estimate your final mark (FIMS intranet)
• Outside sources
  • Printed sources
  • Web sources