Description: |
Information engineering deals with the acquisition, preparation, storage, organization and distribution of information in knowledge-intensive environments, like e.g. digital libraries or knowledge management systems. Information underlies in a life cycle of creation, storage, distribution and application, which may lead to the creation of new information. This life cycle may be strongly linked to certain business processes. Informaion is used for performing knowledge-intensive tasks. Creation and application of knowledge may also be a collaborative task. Contents: 1. Fundamentals: information lifcycle, knowledge and processes, information seeking and searching, metadata. 2. Methods: digitization, informaiton extraction, ontology engineering, access management, annotation, recommendation, preservation, evaluation 3. Systems: repositories, web servers, dosument management, content management, knowledge management, enterprise search, digital libraries, social media |
Literature: |
- Kimiz Dalkir, Jay Liebowitz: Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice. MIT Press, 2011. - Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols: How to Build a Digital Library, Morgan Kaufmann, 2009. |