PBIB9200 Advanced Course in Web Indexing and Retrieval Course description

Elective specialisation subject

No prerequisites.

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 "eb 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

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.

Participation is mandatory and expected all teaching days. Only in special cases, absence from teaching may be accepted upon application. In case of non-approved absence, the participant will lose the right to have the essay approved.

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. 

In case an essay is not approved, the candidate may submit an adapted essay once within a specified time.

All examination support material is allowed as long as source reference and quotation technique requirements are applied.  

Approved/not approved. 

The essay shall be approved by the course coordinator.

The candidates for this subject are doctoral students in the PhD programme at Library and Information Science at OsloMet, 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's own candidates, given enough places. The subject is primarily offered to those students admitted to the PhD programme at OsloMet but will be open to other students who have completed either 'hovedfag' or a master's degree (120 credits) within the same academic area.

Applicants other than the university's own candidates must submit a summary of about one page with information about their own PhD project or other project / field of interest, with a description of the topic, method, theoretical approach, and why this topic is considered relevant to own project.