Third semester courseware of DLIS-KU.

INFORMATION REPRESENTATION AND RETRIEVAL

LIS-COR-301:Information Representation and Retrieval

  • Unit 1: Introduction to Information Retrieval System
  • Unit 2: Subject Indexing: Principles and Practices
  • Unit 3: Indexing Languages and Vocabulary Control
  • Unit 4: Digital IR Systems
  • Unit 5: IR Systems – Users, Evaluation and Trends
Credits: 4 | FM: 50 | Term end: 40 and IA: 10 (CE - 5 + PRJ - 5) |

AUTOMATED LIBRARY SYSTEM (THEORY)

LIS-COR-304: Automated Library System (Theory)

  • Unit 1: Introduction to Library Automation
  • Unit 2: Work-flow and Components of Automated Library System
  • Unit 3: Standards and Software related to Library Automation
Credits: 2 | FM: 50 | Term end: 40 and IA: 10 (CE) |

AUTOMATED LIBRARY SYSTEM (PRACTICE)

LIS-COR-305: Automated Library System (Practice)

  • Unit 1: ILSs – Installation, configuration and customization
  • Unit 2: ILSs – Subsystems and modules
  • Unit 3: ILS Administration and User Interface
Credits: 2 | FM: 50 | Term end: 40 and IA: 10 (PRC) |

DIGITAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Group I

LIS-DSE-306A:Digital Resource Management

  • Unit 1: Organization of Digital Information Resources
  • Unit 2: Content Management System
  • Unit 3: Content Designation through MARC 21 – Advanced level
  • Unit 4: Metadata encoding– Generic and Domain-specific
Credits: 4 | FM: 50 | Term end: 40 and IA: 10 (CE+PRJ) |

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Group I

LIS-DSE-306B: Knowledge Management

  • Unit 1: Information and Society
  • Unit 2: Knowledge Economy and Knowledge Management
  • Unit 3: Content Management System
  • Unit 4: Knowledge Dissemination and Marketing
Credits: 4 | FM: 50 | Term end: 40 and IA: 10 (CE+PRJ) |

MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

LIS-SEC-307A: Skill Enhancement Course (SEC)

Objective: To explore features and feasibility of retrieval systems for documents in Indian languages

  • Indian languages and scripts - an overview
  • Text encoding systems
  • Unicode text encoding
  • Rendering engines
  • Open Type Fonts (OTF)
  • Managing Indic-script based documents in retrieval engines
    • Zebra
    • MGPP
    • Lucene
    • Solr
Note: A student can opt for any one from the array: LIS-SEC-307 A or LIS-SEC-307 B

Evaluation: Project - 15 marks | Presentation - 10 marks (No Term-end Examination)

REFERENCES AND CITATIONS: NETWORK AND TOOLS

LIS-SEC-307B: References and Citations: Network and Tools [Skills Enhancement Course]

Objective: To explore new generation tools and techniques in managing citations and references.

  • Network visualization tools (Pajek, SocSciboat etc)
  • Citation network visualization (Citations Gecko, LitMaps, Inciteful etc)
  • Reference Management - Advanced level techniques, Export/Import
  • Citations data sources
  • Reference/Metadata sources
  • Automated literature review
  • On-the-fly citations
Note: A student can opt for any one from the array: LIS-SEC-307 A or LIS-SEC-307 B

Evaluation: Project - 15 marks | Presentation - 10 marks (No Term-end Examination)