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PBIB9200 Advanced Course in Web Indexing and Retrieval Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Kunnskapsorganisasjon og gjenfinning: webindeksering og informasjonssøking
Study programme
PhD Programme in Library and Information Science
Weight
10.0 ECTS
Year of study
2017/2018
Programme description
Course history

Introduction

Elective specialisation subject

Required preliminary courses

No info

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

The candidates are in the forefront of knowledge regarding:

  • Principles for web indexing and search algorithms
  • Theories for the dissemination of documents via world wide web and the characteristics of such documents.
  • Specific challenges in connection with such knowledge organisation which this dissemination raises and theoretical models which are developed to meet these challenges.
  • Web-users' questions and search behaviour and method to discover search behaviour
  • Users' challenges in web-search and tools developed to deal with these challenges, for example query expansion, ontologies, taxonomies and folksonomies
  • Methods for evaluating search systems, indexing methods and semantic tools.

Skills

The candidate is able to:

  • Apply and evaluate indexing methods and search techniques adapted to web-based information systems.
  • Analyse and interpret web-users' query and information search behaviour
  • Apply fundamental principle in web indexing and search algorithms
  • Analyse and characterise semantic tools and their adaptation and place in web-search and web-search systems.
  • Analyse and select methods of evaluation of search systems, indexing methods and semantic tools

Teaching and learning methods

The subject is organised as a seminar with both lectures and demonstrations and involves two four-day meetings. The subject provides a running consideration of research projects presented by the candidates and experienced researchers. Projects are presented in accordance with fundamental academic questions and current international research in the academic area.

Assessment

The candidates shall write an essay of approximately 15 pages. The essay shall be presented and discussed in one of the meetings. The essay shall be handed in within at least 2 months after the subject is concluded.

Grading scale

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Examiners

The essay shall be approved by the course coordinator.

Admission requirements

The candidates for this subject are doctoral students in the PhD programme at Library and Information Science at Oslo and Akershus University College, as well as others who wish to be qualified for research in the field, teaching positions at universities and colleges or other types of position which require a high level of academic competence.

This subject can be offered to candidates in addition to the university college's own candidates, given enough places. The subject is primarily offered to those students admitted to the PhD programme at Oslo and Akershus University College but will be open to other students who have completed either 'hovedfag' or a master's degree (120 credits) within the same academic area.