Archives, Records, & Information Management MSc/PgDip
Document Encoding INFOST5011
- Academic Session: 2026-27
- School: School of Humanities
- Credits: 20
- Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- Typically Offered: Either Semester 1 or Semester 2
- Available to Visiting Students: No
- Collaborative Online International Learning: No
- Curriculum For Life: No
Short Description
This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop the skills to analyse, understand and encode a variety of texts in electronic format. It will seek to develop these skills by encouraging an intimate understanding of the nature of different texts, an appreciation of their uses, and approaches to encoding them in electronic form.
Timetable
1x2hr lecture; 1x1hr practical lab per week over 10 weeks as scheduled on MyCampus. This is one of the Honours options in DMIS and may not run every year. The options that are running this session are available on MyCampus
Excluded Courses
INFOSTUD5037
Co-requisites
None
Assessment
The standard assessments for this course are:
■ Text Criteria - 40%
■ Report - 60%
If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:
■ There is no alternative to the criteria, but flexible deadlines can be offered as reasonable adjustments (students should follow the usual process for extensions)
■ There is no alternative to the report, but flexible deadlines can be offered as reasonable adjustments (students should follow the usual process for extensions)
Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.
Main Assessment In: April/May
Course Aims
This course aims to:
■ provide a grounding in the principles and best practice of electronic text encoding.
■ provide an appreciation of the different types of text encoding
■ examine of text encoding methods.
■ emphasise the critical ability to assess the potential for both use and misuse of electronic text encoding in the humanities.
Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
By the end of this course students will be able to:
■ Ability to analyse a variety of texts and identify their principal structural elements and character features.
■ Ability to identify the likely research questions which are most pertinent to ask of a text and evaluate whether these can be answered by using text encoding
■ Understand the ability to distinguish between the main types of text encoding.
■ Appreciation of the theory and development of the main forms of text encoding (SGML, XML, XHTML).
■ Ability to apply at least one encoding scheme to a high level of competence.