ILM5910 - INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND THE INTERNET

Module Identifier	ILM5910
Module Title	INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND THE INTERNET
Academic Year	2002/2003
Co-ordinator	Mr Alan Wheatley
Semester	Semester 2
Other staff	E M Keen
Course delivery	Practical	8 Hours
	Lecture	14 Hours 14 lectures x 1 hour
Assessment	Semester Assessment	Practical Project	70%
	Semester Assessment	essay 1,000 words	30%

Learning outcomes

Studying this module, should enable students to do the following things:

analyse the primary features of interfaces for information systems
describe the principles of modern Internet-based information retrieval operations
describe the major types of Interent retrieval tools
use the Internet to satisfy a variety of information needs
produce and manage basic Web pages
produce and manage basic images for Web pages

Brief description

Information retrieval has expanded beyond its traditional home in libraries and formal information systems; it is now firmly in the hands of end-users. Contemporary information systems must fit themselves to the universal WWW browser interface, and customers quickly move from one system for another if the first does not deliver the right results. In this model of information retrieval, the end-user is customer and king. Today's information retrieval systems usually have interfaces that are so simple and so similar that new customers can rapidly teach themselves how to use most of the system. These changes are most completely developed in the Internet search engines.

Aims

The aims of this module are to:

review the results of the above changes;
critically examine the current state of the Internet's major information retrieval channels;

analyse the relationship between Web page features and their information retrieval consequences