Objectives:

This course will introduce students to the concepts of knowledge organization (or "representation," “information organization,” “resource organization,” “classification and cataloging”).

At the conclusion of this course students should

• Come to an understanding as to why reliable and effective representation is important
• Know and understand the different ways that different groups represent documents
• Recognize the challenges and theoretical issues inherent in these different methods
• Understand the basic methods for creating a classification scheme
  
• Be able to recognize and describe different types of representation and organization systems
  
• Be able to explain the theory behind tools and systems providing access to documents