Subject:
Course: Indexing and retrieval systems 2
ECTS credits: 6
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester    
Status: Compulsory
Method of teaching: lectures, seminar/colloquium
Prerequisite: Indexing and retrieval systems 2        
Assessment: oral exam, tutorial, colloquium        

Course description:
Subject access to information. Methods and results in subject indexing. The indexing process and quality in subject indexing. The problem of subject analysis and aboutness. Dimensions of aboutness: exhaustivity and specifity. The objective and subjective paradigm in subject indexing. Automatic subject indexing. Thesauri: standards, structure and development. Subject headings: advantages and disadvantages and future trends. Principles of subject languages. Ontologies and folksonomies.
Course objectives:
Students will acquire knowledge about and learn to develop different types of indexing languages, specifically subject headings, thesauri, ontologies and folksonomies, and learn about theoretical and practical frameworks in subject indexing.
After this course students will be able to:
1.differentiate between different types of indexing languages, 2. interprete the indexing process, 3. comment on different quality indicators in subject indexing, 4. understand differences between classification systems, subject headings and thesauri, 5. develop controlled languages/thesauri 6. conduct research on different subject index languages, 7. critically assess indexing languages in relation to current information environments
Quality check and success of the course:
Internal evaluation will be done by teachers and students at the end of semester. External evaluation will be done by fellow professors participating at the course and evaluating both course and teacher.

Reading list:
1. Albrechtsen, Hanne. Subject analysis and indexing: rrom automated indexing to domain analysis. // The Indexer  18, 4(1993), 219-224.
2. Beghtol, Clare. Bibliographic classification theory and text Linguistics: aboutness analysis, intertextuality and the cognitive act of classifying documents. // Journal of documentation 42, 2(1986), 84-113.
3. Hjorland, Birger. Towards a theory of aboutness, subject, topicality, theme, domain, field, content . . . and relevance. // Journal of the american society for information science and technology 52, 9(2001), 774-778
4. Mai, Jens-Erik. Analysis in indexing: document and domain centered approaches. // Information processing and management 41(2005), 500-611.
5. Svenonius, E. Intelektualne osnove organizacije informacija. Lokve:Benja, 2005.
6. 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. 57-72.

Dodatna literatura:
1. Peters, Isabella, Folksonomies: indexing and retrieval in Web 2.0. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2009.
2. Špiranec, S.; Ivanjko, T. Korisničko označivanje tekstualnih i vizualnih informacija: što mogu očekivati AKM ustanove? 16. seminar Arhivi, knjižnice, muzeji : mogućnosti suradnje u okruženju globalne informacijske strukture : zbornik radova / Tomašević, Nives ; Despot, Ivana (ur.). - Zagreb : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo , 2013. 66-79.
3. Špiranec, Sonja; Banek Zorica, Mihaela. Web 2.0 i Semantički web: ista ili različita odredišta? / 11. seminar Arhivi, knjižnice, muzeji : mogućnost suradnje u okruženju globalne informacijske infrastrukture / Willer, Mirna (ur.). Zagreb : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo, 2008. Str. 27-43.