SISAT

School of Information Systems and Technology

Faculty of Informatics

BUSS315 – Knowledge and Information Design

Subject Outline

Autumn Session 2007

Head of School –Associate Professor Peter Hyland, Student Resource Centre, Tel: (02) 4221 3606

General Information

Subject Coordinator and Lecturer	Dr. Frithjof Dau
Telephone Number:	4221 3752
Email:	dau@uow.edu.au
Location:	40.242

Dr Dau’s Consultation Times During Session

Proposed Lecture Schedule:

Week	Topic	Comments
1	Introduction to Information and Retrieval Systems	-
2	ISAR systems, Boolean and Nearness Based Approaches, Precision and Recall	Tutorial 1.
3	Indexes, Berrypicking, Stemming, Descriptors	Tutorial 2.
4	Hypertext and WWW	Lab 1. Assignment A Due (10 marks)
5	Structured Documents, Markup languages, and XML	Lab 2.
6	Maths: Orders, Trees, Lattices, FCA. Linguistics: Nym-Words.	Lab 3. Assignment B Due (10 marks)
	Mid Semester Recess
7	Controlled Vocabularies and Classification Systems	Tutorial 3.
8	Thesauri and Ontologies	Lab 4.
9	Faceted Search (Guest Lecture by Mark Sifer)	Lab 5. Assignment C Due (10 marks)
10	Semantic Web and Web 2.0	Lab 6.
11	Description Logic I	Tutorial 5.
12	Description Logic II	Tutorial 6.
13	Visualization	Lab 7. Assignment D Due (10 marks)

Note: This program is subject to change based on the progress of the class.

Students should check the subject’s web site regularly as important information, including details of unavoidable changes in assessment requirements will be posted from time to time. Any information posted to the web site is deemed to have been notified to all students.

Content

This subject provides an introduction to Knowledge and Information Design via an applied library sciences approach to the understanding of information spaces. The appropriate application environments, knowledge acquisition and representation schemes for developing knowledge and information spaces are examined along with their relationship to contemporary Web and content management systems. In addition, managerial issues in design information spaces, and general methodologies for knowledge and information analysis and design, are exercised.

Objectives

On successful completion of this subject students should have a clear understanding of the nature of Knowledge and Information Design, the appropriate business domains for information space modelling, the differences between traditional information systems analysis and analysis based on knowledge and information space design.

Attendance Requirements

It is the responsibility of students to attend all lectures/tutorials/labs/seminars/practical work for subjects for which you are enrolled.

Attendance and participation in lectures, tutorials and web-mediated activities is a requirement for the successful completion of this course. Failure to do so may result in a fail grade being recorded. A good indicator of satisfactory attendance is approximately 80% of the allocated contact hours.

It should be noted that according to Course Rule 003{Interpretation Point 2 (t)} each credit point for a single session subject has the value of about two hours per week including class attendance. Therefore, the amount of time spent on each 6 credit point subject should be at least 12 hours per week, which includes lectures/tutorials/labs etc

Notes on Assessment

Participation in weekly tutorials and laboratories is essential to learning in this subject. There are 12 weekly laboratories/tutorials. In four weeks (weeks 3,5,8,12), assesments are given. These will contribute to 40% of the overall assessment.

The assignments are paper based exercises. They are issued at the end of the tutorial/laboratory and must be submitted at the beginning of the following tutorial/laboratory. For example, the first exercise is issued at the end of tutorial 2, week 3, and the solutions must be submitted at the beginning of laboratory 1, week 4. Late work will not be accepted. The assignments will be returned in a later tutorial/laboratory.

The exercises are assessed on: meeting the requirements of the questions and showing understanding of the respective topic, and answer questions about submitted answers if requested. For example, a student who submits an exercise but can not answer questions about their solutions would receive zero for that exercise.

To be eligible to pass this subject, students must achieve an overall mark of at least 50%, and at least 40% on the final exam.

Additional Information

Students must refer to the Faculty Handbook or online references which contains a range of policies on educational issues and student matters.

Supplementary Exams

While the School normally grants supplementary exams when the student does not sit the standard exam for an acceptable reason, each case will be assessed on its own merit and there is no guarantee a supplementary exam will be granted. If a supplementary exam is granted the date will be determined by the University via ARD. You will be notified via SOLS Mail the time and date of this supplementary exam. You must follow the instructions given in the email message.

Please note that if this is your last session and you are granted a supplementary exam, be aware that your results will not be processed in time to meet the graduation deadline.

Plagiarism

When you submit an assessment task, you are declaring the following

1. It is your own work and you did not collaborate with or copy from others.

2. You have read and understand your responsibilities under the University of Wollongong's policy on plagiarism.

3. You have not plagiarised from published work (including the internet). Where you have used the work from others, you have referenced it in the text and provided a reference list at the end of the assignment.

4. Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

5. Students are responsible for submitting original work for assessment, without plagiarising or cheating, abiding by the University’s policies on Plagiarism as set out in the Calendar under University Policies, and in Faculty handbooks and subject guides. Plagiarism has led to the expulsion from the University.