The primary focus of the course is the organisation of knowledge for effective management and retireval. Students are introduced to systems of classification and representation of knowledge as essential processes for providing systematic knowledge management and resource discovery. Because knowledge management values both explicit and tacit knowledge resources, the course focuses on strategies and processes of organization of information resources available within an organization (namely records and internal documents) and resources from the public domain that are essential to an organisation's operations. The course focuses on theories and practice of knowledge organization as it relates to meanings, contexts and subjects of information products in whatever form. The methods by which knowledge is created, categorized, classified and represented are studied, as are the standards used internationally for knowledge representation and categorization. New mechanisms for organizing and providing efficient access to the subject content carried by the various media are studied, including traditional print-based materials, electronic documents, and the World Wide Web. For example, particular attention is paid to initiatives such as metadata and global information locator schemes (GILS) as applied to content and document organisation in the electronic media and the World Wide Web.