Winter 2008 TTh 11 am - 12:20 pm MGH 430 Terry Brooks
Modern architectures of information semantics originate with Melvil Dewey in the late 19th Century and continue to the present day in the form of Semantic Web protocols.
This course integrates library authority control and descriptive cataloging practices with modern extensible information structures to facilitate digital resource management and metadata harvesting.
This courses covers methodologies and protocols such as NAF (Name authority file), Dublin Core, MARC record structure, Eprints DC XML, and RDF (Resource Description Framework).
Experience with an object-oriented programming language is assumed.