Information Representation: Controlled Vocabulary

Year
0
Academic year
2021-2022
Code
01013746
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical classes that include group work focused on the analysis and discussion of selected topics under the teacher’s guidance. Classes will also include the reading and interpretation of texts, particularly normative documents, and practical exercises that will allow students to have contact with the working tools of indexing languages.

The final grade is the result of the sum of the following elements: attendance, participation in class, and tests.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students should, in general terms:

1. Know the general principles and the application of some instruments of controlled and free indexing language;

2. Understand the role played by these tools in the retrieval of information in catalogs and databases;

3. Know the new structures of representation and retrieval of information arising in artificial intelligence environments.

Specifically, students be able to:

a) Learn the general principles, features and structure of the various instruments of indexing language (lists of free terms, subject headings and thesauri);

b) Assimilate the fundamentals and key procedures and techniques for the implementation of this type of languages, contextualizing them in a specific service;

c) Present the potential and added value of each of these types of language and their complementarity;

d) Present their functions in literature search by subject.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Indexing Languages: Historical overview of free and controlled languages.

1. Free language: fundamentals, characteristics and function;

1.1. Free term lists: characteristics and function.

2. Controlled languages: fundamentals, characteristics and function;

2.1. Lists of subject headings: origin, context, fundamentals and general characteristics;

2.1.1. Type, composition and methodological guidelines for their construction;

2.1.2. Subject headings list and new technologies;

2.2. Thesauri: origin, context, fundamentals and general characteristics;

2.2.1. Typology; composition and methodological guidelines for their construction;

2.2.2. Thesauri and new technologies;

3. Ontologies, taxonomies and folksonomies: definition, function and characteristics.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Manuela Tavares de Matos Cardoso

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Regular attendance and in-class participation: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 75.0%

Bibliography

Cabré, M. T. (1993). La Terminología: teoría, metodología, aplicaciones. Barcelona: Ed. Antártica/Empúres,

Chaumier, J. (1986). Analisis y lenguajes documentales: el tratamiento lingüístico de la información documental. Paris: Editorial Mitre.

Gil Leiva, I. (2008). Manual de indización: teoría e práctica. Gijón: Ediciones Trea.

Lancaster, F. W (2002). El control del vocabulario en la recuperación de información. València: Universitat de València.

Moreiro Gonzalez, J. A. (2006). La representation y recuperación de los contenidos digitales: de los tesauros conceptuales a las folksonomías. In: Tendencias en documentación digital (81-108). Gijón: Trea.

Simões, M. G. (2007). Da abstracção à complexidade formal: relações conceptuais nos tesauros. Coimbra: Almedina.

Soergel, D. (1985). Organizing information: Principles of data base and retrieval systems. San Diego: Academic Press