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:

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: