How do you get information about anything? Aren’t you awed by the amount of information in the environment? In this College you can learn various technologies that help you make the most of information or knowledge to live in information society. The field includes the library, the vast world of the Internet, the analysis and use of information and data, and the communication of information to the future.
In order to make the most of information or knowledge, you need to grasp their character and design or build information systems that manage them. You also have to ponder the institution, culture, and management in order to create social systems that manage knowledge and information. In this College, the three fields—Knowledge Studies Course, Knowledge Information Systems Course, and Information Resources Management Course—teach you all of these things and train specialists connecting society and knowledge information.
The Knowledge Studies Course focuses on humans. Information and knowledge are important, as they are the driving force of current social change. Therefore, we are required to promote information and knowledge sharing, and to have ability to use shared information and knowledge. It is a rising trend.
In this course, you will understand the essence of knowledge, knowledge and information action, and knowledge acquisition. You will also develop the ability to formalize knowledge and learn search and collection technology, methods of communication, the intermediation technique of information and knowledge, and the technique of extracting knowledge while treating data analytically.
The Knowledge Information Systems Course focuses on information technology. Thanks to the advances in information technology, such as the Internet, humans have been able to share an unprecedented amount information and knowledge. Making the most of such information and knowledge require sophisticated technology.
In this course, you will learn the classification and construction of knowledge information, offering and sharing technology on knowledge information in the Web, various expressions of knowledge information and database technology for management, information retrieval techniques for extracting useful information from knowledge information, and mounting technology of a knowledge information system, such as a digital library.
The Information Resources Management Course focuses on society. When we get information, the environment where it is accumulated, assembled, and offered enables us to use suitable information effectively. Improving such an environment and the social system concerning the information environment is needed for the progress of society.
In this course, you will acquire knowledge and methods for planning and managing the accumulation in information service institutions, such as libraries, organizations, and communities. You will also learn the management and application of knowledge information; designing, building, and managing a social system of knowledge information; and the characteristics, culture, and history of various information media.
