Principles of Information Control
0
2024-2025
01013606
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
NA
Teaching Methods
Classes include lectures to introduce the topics of the syllabus, discussion, relevant literature review, and theoretical-practical work designed to illustrate the subjects. At the end of the semester, classes will be taken up with oral presentations by students and joint discussion of the work carried out. Continuous assessment involves the preparation and presentation of a practical work of research/application of knowledge and a test.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the semester the student should be able to:
Understand the nature of information resources in accordance with various perspectives;
Understand the aspects and issues involved in the organization and representation of information, linking them with History, Theory and Principles;
Understand the nature of the processes involved in creating instruments for organizing information;
Recognize the implications of the technologies used in the making of products;
Identify, in a elementary but correct manner, the nature and scope of the standards of description;
Correctly apply the terminology used in the field.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. Information organization and representation.
1.1. Definition and objectives.
1.2. Theoretical foundations. Historical evolution, principles.
2. Organization and description of information in archives and libraries. Nature and specific objectives.
3. Products of the process of organization and representation of information. Distincticve aspects and underlying principles.
4. Technologies used in the making of products: implications in the methods used to achieve their objectives and ensure access to the objects.
5. Relationship between organization, representation, retrieval and use of information.
6. Standards used in the representation of information. Framework, principles and nature.
7. FRBR. Scope, objectives and relevance. Study of chapter 3: Entities.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
In-class participation : 10.0%
Mini Tests: 40.0%
Research work: 50.0%
Bibliography
CONFERÊNCIA INTERNACIONAL SOBRE PRINCÍPIOS DE CATALOGAÇÃO (1961). Exposição dos princípios adotados pela Conferência Internacional sobre princípios de Catalogação, Paris. [Consult. 7 Abr. 2013]. http://www.imeicc5.com/download/portuguese/Paris_Principles-Portuguese.pdf
Garrido Arilla, M. R. (1996). Teoria e historia de la catalogación de documentos. Madrid: Ed. Sínteses.
Gáscon Garcia, J. Princípios y fundamentos de la catalogación. em:http://materials.cv.uoc.edu/cdocent/WCRP5S2188VL8RYMO43G.pdf
IFLA. Study Group on the FRBR (2008). Requisitos funcionais dos registos bibliográficos: relatório final. Lisboa: BN.
LÓPEZ G., I. (2004). Evolución reciente de la catalogación. Anales de Documentación. 7, 141-152. http://revistas.um.es/analesdoc/article/view/1661
Ribeiro, F. (2005). Organizar e representar informação: apenas um meio para viabilizar o acesso? Porto: UP.