1) Understand problems and techniques related to the analysis and representation of the content, including the main theories and methods of indexing and abstracting. 2) Recognize the role of indexing and abstracting in the access and retrieval of information. 3) Synthesise and represent the content of documents using both natural and controlled vocabularies. 4) Prepare informative abstracts and technical communications. 5) Develop skills in indexing and abstracting. 6) Select, understand and manage indexing languages: thesauri and classification systems. 7) Evaluate current applications and services for indexing and abstracting. 8) Accurate indexing of digital contents. 9) Apply semantic vocabularies and knowledge organisation systems in information units.

Contents Lesson 1. Content analysis. 1.1. The organisation of information. 1.2. Data, information and knowledge. 1.3. Tools for organising information. 1.4. Description of documents. Lesson 2. Abstracting. 2.1. Abstracting theory. 2.2. Analytical strategies. 2.3. Writing abstracts. 2.4. Main aspects of abstracting. 2.5. Types of abstracts. 2.6. Features of abstracts. 2.7. Functions and uses of abstracts. Lesson 3. Indexing. 3.1. Types of languages in indexing. 3.2. Features of indexing languages. 3.3. Practices in indexing. Lesson 4. Indexing languages. 4.1. Thesaurus definition. 4.2. Parts of a thesaurus. 4.3. Thesaural structures. 4.4. Creation and presentation of thesauri. 4.5. Applications of thesauri. Lesson 5. Semantic representation of information. 5.1. Development of a thesaurus. 5.2. Stages in the development of a thesaurus. 5.3. Managing and updating thesauri. 5.4. Semantic relationships in controlled vocabularies. 5.5. Automatic services. Lesson 6. Knowledge organisation. Metadata. 6.1. Knowledge organisation. 6.2. Knowledge organisation systems. 6.3. Types of knowledge organisation systems. 6.4. Use of knowledge organisation systems. 6.5. Comparison of classification systems. 6.6. Metadata. 6.7. Use of metadata. 6.8. Metadata and interoperability. Lesson 7. Semantic Web. Linked data. 7.1. Markup languages (HTML and XML). 7.2. The semantic Web. 7.3. Semantic Web solutions. 7.4. Web Semantic technologies. 7.5. Linked data.

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