School started back up on Tuesday, looks as though it's going to be an interesting quarter. I'm taking the LIS 549A Digital Libraries (class that will cover topics like namespaces, schema, schemes, RDF, OWL, Topic Maps, MetaData and the Semantic Web. Very cutting edge stuff. We'll dance around the edge of what is currently being implemented and what are possible future solutions for organizing information on the WWW.
I'll be in the 2nd quarter of the LIS 549 Content Management Systems (CMS) and if I take all 3 I'll get a pretty little piece of paper at the end that says I'm a CMS expert (or some equally fitting title).
LIS 550 is the last of my core classes, its Information in a Social Context which should be interesting at the very least. Talks about things like Privacy, Copyright, Intellectual Property and as an assignment our group will be writing a policy statement for a metropolitan library based on the USA Patriot Act. I'm curious to find out more about it to see what is fact and what is hersay.
Finally I'll be taking LIS 598-Special Topics. It's on search technology. Hmmmm... if I didn't need one credit I'm not too sure I would take this but again, at least it should be interesting.
