Module Identifier
ILM5910
Module Title
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND THE INTERNET
Academic Year
2008/2009
Co-ordinator
Mr Alan Wheatley
Semester
Intended for use in future years
Other Staff
 

Course Delivery

Delivery Type Delivery length / details
Practical 8 Hours.
Lecture 14 Hours. 14 lectures x 1 hour
 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion
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:


Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 7