Course: Introduction to Knowledge Organization Systems    
ECTS credits: 3
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester
Status: Elective
Method of teaching: Lecture, Essay
Prerequisite: None
Assessment: Essay 40%
Written exam 40%
Oral exam 20%

Course description:
This course is designed to provide introduction the basics of  KOS. A series of lectures explores the basic theoretical notions od knowledge organization, its historical developement as well as epistemological presumtions of the field. Through written assigments students explore the main types of KOS in different contexts and environments: business, educational, electronic, etc. Basic types of KOS are covered: thesauri, classification, ontologies, SKOS, Semantic Web, collaborative tagging services.

Course objectives:
This course will provide students with basic theoretical notions and practical implementations of Knowledge Organization Systems. Students will be able to define the intellectual and epistemological foundations of knowledge organization as well as identify and describe basic types of KOS. Through written assgiments students will explore the notion of KOS in different contexts and environments
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Reading list

Compulsory
1. Rowley, J. and Hartley, R. Organizing knowledge: an introduction to managing access to information. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2008.
2.Odabrana poglavlja iz organizacije znanja / urednica Jadranka Lasić-Lazić.Zagreb : Zavod za informacijske studije, 2004

Supplementary
1. Popper, K. R. Objective knowledge. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1979.
2. Svenonious. E. Intelektualne osnove organizacije informacija / prevela Mirna Willer. Lokve : Benja, 2005
3. Špiranec, Sonja; Ivanjko, Tomislav. Predmetni jezici s korisničkim jamstvom: što možemo naučiti od folksonomija? // 15. seminar Arhivi, knjižnice, muzeji : mogućnosti suradnje u okruženju globalne informacijske infrastrukture : zbornik radova / Hassenay, Damir. ; Krtalić, Maja (ur.). Zagreb : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo, 2012.