PART I: ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE
Topic 1: Systematic knowledge organization on line systems
1.1. Concept of Digital Knowledge Organization Systems
1.2. Main Digital Knowledge Organization Systems
1.3. Structure UDC on line
1.3.1.Characteristics, structure and use of the CDU
1.3.2. Main classes
1.3.3.Auxiliary numbers
Topic 2: UDC on line: 0, 1,2,3
2.1. Class 0 Generalities
2.2. Class 1 Philosophy
2.3. Class 2 Religion
2.4. Class 3 Social Sciences
Topic 3: UDC on line:5, 6
3.1. Class 5 Pure Sciences
3.2. Class 6 Applied Sciences
Topic 4:UDC on line :7, 8, 9
4.1. Class 7: Fine Arts, Games, Shows and Sports
4.2. Class 8: Language, Linguistics and Literature
4.3. Class 9: Geography, Biographies and History
Topic 5: Alphabetic Knowledge Organization Systems: Subject Headings on line
5.1.1. Types, characteristics and use of subject headings on line
5.1.2. Subject Heading Lists on line
5.1.3. Forms of headings
Topic 6: Alphabetic Knowledge Organization Systems: Subject Headings on line
6.1. Forms of headings on line
6.2. Structure, scope notes and references
PART II: REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE
TOPIC 7 Folksonomies: digital collaborative classification and labeling
7.1. Concept of Folksonomy
7.2. Cooperative Sorting
7.3. Forms of digital collaborative labeling
TOPIC 8. Digital thesauri
8.1. Thesaurus Concept
8.2. Composition of the Thesaurus
8.3. Thesaurus Classes
8.4. Standards for presentation of descriptors
8.5. Methodology for the preparation of Thesauruses
8.6. Maintenance and updating of thesauruses
8.7. Digital thesauri
TOPIC 9: Formal structures of knowledge representation: Digital meta-information
9.1. Library metadata concept
9.2. Typology
9.3. Elements and practical application of the Dublin Core format
9.4. Uses of the matter element of the Dublin Core
TOPIC 10: Formal structures of knowledge representation. Semantic web
10.1 Semantic Web
10.1.1. Historical aspects
10.1.2. Structure of the semantic web
10.1.3. Semantic web construction model
10.1.4. Future of the semantic web
TOPIC 11 11. Formal knowledge representation structures: Interoperability between information systems
11.1. Interoperability concept
11.2. Types of semantic interoperability
11.3. Semantic interoperability. Applications
11.4. National Semantic Interoperability Scheme
TOPICS 12 Introduction to Open Access: Document Repositories
12.1. Scientific communication systems: commercial edition vs. Open Access
12.2. Towards open knowledge
12.3. Open Science Repositories. Advantages and benefits of Open Access
12.4. Open Access Policies