| CODE | ARI5400 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Archival Knowledge Representation and Management | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Artificial Intelligence | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit is intended to expose students to the complex concepts and applications that professionals are likely to encounter in the design, development, and management of digital archives. Topics that will be discussed include: - Digital objects: variety (images, text, videos) and their management; - Knowledge representations: knowledge modelling, metadata, Semantic Web, vocabularies in RDF/ RDFS, open data, data linking; - Knowledge discovery: the topics of information retrieval and search and their relevance to the area of digital archives; - Architectures: platforms that are used to expose and disseminate information about archives and catalogues will be discussed including client server architecture. In this regards the basics of web languages such as HTML will be presented; - User behaviour: this is an important area whereby the introduction of new archival software should take into consideration users' needs and therefore allow of personalisation and recommendation; - Services: a number of different backend services are usually available intended to be managed by archival software administrators, these include auditing, user management, access rights as these are important to maintain an updated digital security policy. Study-Unit Aims: This unit will provide an introduction to the complex concepts and applications that professionals are likely to encounter in the digital information environment. The materials and activities can be designed to provide students with a solid understanding of the kinds of applications and technologies that are used by professionals to launch digital libraries and manage their operations. Although the unit will have a technological focus, it will not include computer programming. Nevertheless it will provide an introduction to HTML and will build upon other concepts introduced in other units, to provide a comprehensive and detailed coverage of various aspects of digital libraries. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - compare and contrast different archival software packages from a technical perspective; - understand the building blocks of digital libraries; - plan and articulate feasible requirements for digital library solutions; - examine and explain the underlying data in terms of its inherent structures and how records link with each other; - analyse and evaluate the performance of different digital library components such as knowledge discovery, recommendations and value-added services; - discuss inter-operability aspects and requirements in order to facilitate aggregation of data from different repositories. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - perform data acquisition from publicly available sources; - encode and link data in standardised formats; - query different types of databases; - perform basic web authoring using HTML; - handle digital library software. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Students will be provided a number of online resources and readings. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Charlie Abela (Co-ord.) Joel Azzopardi |
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