IL31620 - INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Module Identifier

IL31620

Module Title

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Academic Year

2004/2005

Co-ordinator

Mr Allen E Foster

Semester

Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters)

Other staff

Mr Alan Wheatley, Mr Michael A Lowe

Pre-Requisite

IL10920

Course delivery

Lecture

22 Hours 11 x 2 hour lectures distributed across the 2 semesters

Practical

6 Hours 6 x 1 hour practicals

Assessment

Assessment Type	Assessment Length/Details	Proportion
Semester Assessment	Project Report 2500 words - outcomes assessed 1, 2, 3	50%
Semester Assessment	Project Report 2500 words - outcomes assessed 4, 5, 6, 7	50%

Learning outcomes

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

Evaluate online information retrieval systems and the retrieval mechanisms operating within them

Describe and evaluate methods of indexing from traditional through to state of the art

Explain the methods, and issues surrounding, the evaluation of performance of information retrieval systems

Assess the implications of different indexing and retrieval methods for users, systems design and management

Evaluate opportunities, problems and issues in the context of non-traditional multimedia information retrieval

Evaluate current information retrieval research and future directions for information retrieval systems

Brief description

Effective Information Retrieval is at the heart of 'rnformation society?. Beginning with the student'r experience of Internet search engines and library OPACs the course progresses through the surface level user experience through successive layers into the underlying tools and principles of IR systems. Students will develop a working knowledge of the principles of information retrieval in the information age and generate a view of how information retrieval will develop in the future.

Aims

This module substantially revises the curriculum of the existing IL31610 (10 credit) module to reflect changes in Information Retrieval and address the needs of both students and employers.
The module in its revised form takes on a fundamentally new shape. Beginning with the more familiar information retrieval systems, Internet search engines, the course will move from the user experience through successive layers of details to the underlying traditional concepts that, although repackaged and disguised within Internet technologies, remain at the heart of modern electronic retrieval systems.

Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Background
Burke Mary A (1999) Organization of multimedia resources; principles and practice of information retrieval Aldershot: Gower
Foskett A.C (1996) The subject approach to information 5th. London: Library Association
Large Andrew, Lucy A. Tedd and R.J. Hartley (1999) Information seeking in the online age: principles and practice London: Bowker-Saur
Gredley Ellen and Alan Hopkinson (1990) Exchanging bibliographic data: MARC and other international formats London: Library Association
Rowley Jennifer and John Farrow (2000) Organizing Knowledge: an introduction to managing access to information 3rd. Aldershot; Gower
Shneiderman Ben (1998) Designing the user interface 3rd. Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley Longman
Nielsen Jacob (2000) Designing Web usability New York: New riders

Articles
Bates M.J (1989) The design of browsing and berry-picking techniques for the online search interface Online Review, 13(5), pp407-431
Buckland B, B.A. Norgard and C. Plaunt (1993) Filing, filtering, and the First Few Found Information Technology and Libraries, vol.12, no.3, pp311-319
Wilson, T.D., N.J. Ford, D. Ellis, A.E. Foster and A. Spink (2000) Uncertainty and its correlates The New Review of Information Behaviour Research, 1(1), pp69-84
Barr C.L. and L. Schamber (1998) Users? criteria for relevance evaluation: a cross-situational comparison Information processing and Management, 34(2/3), pp219-236
Travis I (1998) From storage and retrieval systems to search engines: text retrieval in evolution ASIS Bulletin, April-May
Croft W.B What do people want from Information Retrieval D-Lib Magazine, November. Online, available at: http://www.dlib.org/november95/11croft.html
Harter S.P and C.A. Hert (1997) Evaluation of information retrieval systems: approaches, issues and methods Annual Review of Information Science and technology (ARIST), 32, pp3-94

Web Page/Sites
Blackwell bibliographic services Tables of contents enrichment service Online, available at: http://www.blackwell.com/level2/TOC.asp
National Library of Australia Meta matters Online, available at: http://www.nla.gov.au/meta
Olson Hope A Between control and chaos: an ethical perspective on authority control Online, available at; http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/authconf/holson.htm
Library of Congress; Network Development and MARC Standards Office MARC 21 Concise format for bibliographic data Online, available at; http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6