INFO3008 Information Services Professional Practicum

Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Elders, custodians, their descendants and kin of this land past and present.

Unit study package code: INFO3008

Mode of study: Fully Online

Tuition pattern summary: This unit contains a fieldwork component. Find out more about fieldwork on the work integrated learning (WIL) website at http://ctl.curtin.edu.au/wil/fieldwork/index.cfm, which also contains a link to the Fieldwork Policy and Fieldwork Manual.

Credit Value: 25.0

Pre-requisite units: 301833 (v.0) Information Design 203 or any previous version OR INFO2002 (v.0) Information Design or any previous version

Co-requisite units: Nil

Anti-requisite units: Nil

Result type: Grade/Mark

Approved incidental fees: Information about approved incidental fees can be obtained from our website. Visit fees.curtin.edu.au/incidental_fees.cfm for details.

Unit coordinator: Title: MsName: Kathryn GreenhillPhone: (+618) 9266 7173Email: [email protected]: Building: 209 - Room: 337

Teaching Staff: Name: Kathryn GreenhillPhone: (+618) 9266 7173Email: [email protected]: Building: 209 - Room: 337

Name: Rebecca ShillingtonPhone: +61 8 9266 2613Email: [email protected]: Building: 209 - Room: 336

Administrative contact: Name: MCCA Teaching Support TeamPhone: 08 9266 7598Email: [email protected]: Building: 208 - Room: 428

Learning Management System: Blackboard (lms.curtin.edu.au)

Unit Outline

INFO3008 Information Services Professional Practicum Semester 2, 2016

Faculty of Humanities Department of Information Studies

INFO3008 Information Services Professional Practicum Bentley Campus 18 Jul 2016 Department of Information Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Page: 1 of 20CRICOS Provider Code 00301J

The only authoritative version of this Unit Outline is to be found online in OASIS

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Syllabus Professional experience in an information service environment through a three-week full-time practicum placement, organised by the Department of Information Studies. Coursework includes consideration and discussion of practice in records, archives and library services.

Introduction Welcome.

This unit has a practical and hands-on focus. It is designed to be one of the final units in the course.

You should be completing this unit in your last or second-last semester/study period of your degree. If you are not, then before the census date please withdraw from this unit and enrol in another unit earlier in the sequence. Please discuss your study plan with the undergraduate Course Coordinator before doing this, if necessary.

The unit allows you to contextualise much of the theory studied in earlier stages of the course by completing technical tasks. It has two elements, coursework and a three week fulltime workplace practicum.

COURSEWORK involves using online tools to harvest, clean and manipulate cultural data.

THE PRACTICUM PLACEMENT is organised by the Practicum Coordinator, who will contact you about this in the first few weeks of study. It involves three weeks fulltime operational-level work integrated learning in either a) a library or b) records management and archives.

In the first year unit, Information Services Foundation Practicum you completed (or had equivalency for) a two week fulltime administrative-level placement in either a library OR a records/archive. For the practicum associated with this unit, you will be placed in the type of service that is different to the one where you completed your first year prac.

Only students with satisfactory academic progress in this unit will be allocated practicum placements. Please see the practicum manual for more information: http://humanities.curtin.edu.au/schools/MCCA/information_studies/practicum_students.cfm .

Unit Learning Outcomes All graduates of Curtin University achieve a set of nine graduate attributes during their course of study. These tell an employer that, through your studies, you have acquired discipline knowledge and a range of other skills and attributes which employers say would be useful in a professional setting. Each unit in your course addresses the graduate attributes through a clearly identified set of learning outcomes. They form a vital part in the process referred to as assurance of learning. The learning outcomes tell you what you are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in this unit. Each assessment for this unit is carefully designed to test your achievement of one or more of the unit learning outcomes. On successfully completing all of the assessments you will have achieved all of these learning outcomes.

Your course has been designed so that on graduating we can say you will have achieved all of Curtin's Graduate Attributes through the assurance of learning process in each unit.

On successful completion of this unit students can: Graduate Attributes addressed

1 Contextualise professional and managerial expectation of information services

2 Synthesise theories, principles and standards in information services through professional experience

3 Demonstrate understanding of professional and managerial requirements for information professionals by successfully completing practicum placements

4 Demonstrate understanding of the required interpersonal skills and qualities in an information service

5 Create a digital object that demonstrates understanding of professional technology, standards and practice in information services





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Curtin's Graduate Attributes

Learning Activities 1. WHAT YOU WILL BE LEARNING

Course material is covered in four Topics, over the first eight weeks of the unit.

Each topic may include topic notes, key readings and hands-on tasks. The calendar at the end of the unit outline indicates the weeks that you should work on each topic.

l Topic 1 Dirty Data l Topic 2 Getting Data via API l Topic 3 Specific data errors l Topic 4 Using Excel to clean data errors

2. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

2.1 USING BLACKBOARD

You will be studying, communicating with other students and submitting assessment work through Curtin's online Learning Management System, Blackboard. Both these links work:

Oasis portal http://oasis.curtin.edu.au

Direct access http://lms.curtin.edu.au.

2.2 WHAT TO DO EACH WEEK

Each teaching week all students are expected to:

1. read new announcements in the Blackboard Announcements section. l Blackboard menu item: Announcements

2. read any material added by the Unit Coordinator and other students to the Blackboard Discussion Boards (at least three times weekly. Daily is recommended to make sure you see any clarifications about assessments)

l Blackboard menu item: Conversation > Discussion Board 3. contribute in a professional and supportive manner to any topic discussions on the Discussion Board

l Blackboard menu item: Conversation > Discussion Board 4. read Topic Notes.

l Blackboard menu item: Unit Content > Topics, Readings, Files 5. read essential readings

l Blackboard menu item: Unit Content > Topics, Readings, Files 6. read the supplementary readings for the topic according to your interest and time.

l Blackboard menu item: Unit Content > Topics and Readings 7. complete any paperwork or contact required for the practicum placement 8. work on Assessment One or Assessment Two

2.3 QUERIES AND COMMENTS AND CLARIFICATION

Apply discipline knowledge Thinking skills (use analytical skills to solve problems)

Information skills (confidence to investigate new ideas)

Communication skills Technology skillsLearning how to learn (apply principles learnt to new situations) (confidence to tackle unfamiliar problems)

International perspective (value the perspectives of others)

Cultural understanding (value the perspectives of others)

Professional Skills (work independently and as a team) (plan own work)

Find out more about Curtin's Graduate attributes at the Office of Teaching & Learning website: ctl.curtin.edu.au





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All queries and comments about the unit should be posted to the Blackboard Discussion Boards first. This lets students help each other and makes sure that any information provided by the tutor is available to everyone. You are expected to keep up to date with what is being asked on the Blackboard Discussion Boards. Before you post a question you are expected to have used <CTRL> F to see whether the information is in the unit outline and to use the search box to search the Blackboard Discussion Boards for existing information on the topic.

You are encouraged to form a supportive learning environment. "Study groups" meeting in person or using social media such as Facebook can be useful. Please be aware that these are not a substitute for clarification of information by a tutor on Blackboard. In the past students have completed assessments incorrectly when they relied on inaccurate information about unit requirements from sources outside of Blackboard or the unit outline.

Please use the Blackboard email function for personal communications with other students or your Tutor or Unit Coordinator. Please only email the unit coordinator using Blackboard email, as this is filtered into a priority inbox and automatically provides information about the unit in which you are enrolled. Email sent directly to the unit coordinator's email address is not likely to receive a timely reply. Please use the email address on the front of this unit outline to contact the Practicum Coordinator.

2.4 USING ONLINE LEARNING JOURNALS

You will submit part of Assessments One and Two in separate online Learning Journals. Please use the editor to create entries. Uploaded files (e.g. pdfs and WORD documents) will not be read or marked unless you have been specifically asked to add them to your Learning Journal or a Discussion Board. You will be adding some .xls data files to Learning Journal entries as part of the assessments, but only those requested will be read.

Do not cut and paste into a Learning Journal entry from formatted wordprocessing programs like WORD or from webpages. This leaves messy code underneath that can make your work look bad or stop you from being able to save it. If you do want to cut and paste from elsewhere, please paste the cut text to a .txt document using a program like Notepad or TextEdit, SAVE the file in .txt format, then cut the text again for pasting in the Learning Journal from this document.

The Blackboard Guide to using the Learning Journals is here: https://en-us.help.blackboard.com/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Student/090_Tools/Journals

Only you and your marker can view your Learning Journal.

The journal for Assessment One is under ASSESSMENT > Assessment One on the Blackboard sidebar. The journal for Assessment Two is under the ASSESSMENT > Assessment Two on the Blackboard sidebar.

Please make sure you are entering content into the correct Learning Journal for the Assessment, as each separate Learning Journal is linked to a marking rubric. Material for an Assessment that has been submitted to another journal will not be read or marked.

Note that each entry in each Learning Journal will be stamped with the date/time that it was saved . This will be used to determine whether the entire work in an entry was submitted on time. Do not add more material to an entry after a deadline or else all your work in that entry will be marked as late.

You are required to keep backups of your work. Please copy and paste your journal entry into a WORD document and save this on your home computer before you submit it.

4. TIME DEVOTED TO THE UNIT

You should allocate at least 12 hours per week per unit. You should set aside 12 hours per week for the first eight weeks of the unit.

You will also be completing a fulltime practicum placement that will take around 105 hours in total (unless you request recognition of equivalency - see Assessment Three information below).

If you are unable to commit this time then it is likely that your work will not demonstrate your capabilities and that this will be reflected in your marks. If you find family, work and leisure commitments are impacted by study then please consider changing the number of units you are enrolled in before the census date.

5. USING TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

Assessments One and Two involve you using online tools outside of Blackboard, as well as submitting material





https://en-us.help.blackboard.com/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Student/090_Tools/Journals

https://en-us.help.blackboard.com/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Student/090_Tools/Journals

through Blackboard.

You will be required to use:

l the National Library of Australia's Trove Application Programming Interface l the site http://convertjson.com/xml-to-json.htm l the site http://www.convertcsv.com/json-to-csv.htm l Excel to manipulate data.

6. ENSURE YOU HAVE THE REQUIRED SOFTWARE

Assessments for this unit can be completed on a personal computer running either:

1. the latest stable Windows Operating System and Excel 2013 as part of stand-alone Office; or 2. the latest stable OS X Operating System (used by Apple Macs), using Excel 2016 as part of stand-alone Office

2016.

This is the combination that is actively supported. Most guide material will refer to the Windows/Excel2013 combination.

The assessments are written presuming that you are using one of these two combinations. You may use other operating systems and versions of Excel, however if you get stuck and cannot trouble-shoot the issue, or cannot do something that is required you will be expected to switch to Windows using Excel 2013 or Mac using Excel 2016 to complete the assessments.

NOTE for Office 365 users:

The version of Excel offered as part of Office 365 has not been tested for the assessments, but may work.

NOTE for Mac users:

Excel in the Office 2016 version has been chosen instead of the Office 2013 version because the older version has very different features and keyboard shortcuts to the Windows version. The latest Mac version has been updated to bring most features in line with the Windows version. Most of the "how to" information refers to the Windows version of Excel 2013 and this will be more similar to the Mac version of Excel in Office 2016 than in Office 2013. This is preferable than just making you use Windows, which often happens in other units, however the lack of information specifically about the Mac version is a downside of this.

7. ESSENTIAL ACTION FOR EACH ASSESSMENT

For every assignment in this unit, you are expected to “pre-mark” your own work so that you discover and make improvements before the marker marks your work. Before submitting your work you must:

1. Check that you have provided all information requested in the question.

2. Check that the work is submitted in the correct learning journal

3. Check your final piece against the marking criteria for the assessment in the unit outline

4. Submit your draft to TurnItIn where possible, make any corrections and then submit the corrected final copy

8. UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENT TO USE TURNITIN

The University requires that students check their work using the TurnItIn plagiarism-checking software before submission.

For Assessment One and Assessment Two you cannot check any of the uploaded .xls files using TurnItIn.

You can check the Assessment One procedure that you enter into your Learning Journal by copying and pasting the text into a WORD doc and running this through the "TurnItIn Presubmission Checking Tool" available on the Blackboard sidebar from the menu Assessments > Check HERE with TurnItIn before submitting work . This will produce an originality report that you can use to correct your work, however this process is completely separate from the assessment submission. TurnItIn is just being used to check, not submit, your work.

For the Assessment Two workflow log and transmission email, you can check your work once through the TurnItIn





http://convertjson.com/xml-to-json.htm

http://www.convertcsv.com/json-to-csv.htm

upload link under the Assessment Two sidebar item, which is used for final submission of your work. It is strongly suggested that you use the "TurnItIn Presubmission Checking Tool" available on the Blackboard sidebar from the menu Assessments > Check HERE with TurnItIn before submitting work to check your work before submitting it using the "Assessment Two" link.

To use the checking tool for the next assessment, just overwrite the old assessment with the next one during upload.

The "Originality Report" that you receive from TurnItIn will tell you:

1. Whether there is some work that is from somewhere else that you have not attributed properly (e.g. by in-text citation and referencing).

2. Whether you have engaged with many external sources or have written your work without using any of these.

You are expected to have checked your work before submission to make sure that you have cited accurately and engaged with authoritative external sources where required.

You can find out more about Curtin's use of TurnItIn at: http://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/students/turnitin.cfm . You can find more about Academic Integrity at Curtin by reading the Academic Integrity booklet that every student should read in their first week at Curtin: http://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/global/studentbook.cfm

8. DUE DATES AND RETURN OF WORK

Assessments are due at midnight AWST on the due date. Assessments are due on Thursdays to allow staff to support students, who may have last minute enquiries, during the working week.

The Curtin University Assessment and Progression Manual requires that assessments are usually returned within 15 working days after submission, with 20 working days being acceptable in some circumstances. All marked worked is moderated by a second marker before return to students, which lengthens the process.

9. FEEDBACK

You may request verbal (live or via Skype/phone) feedback on your Learning Journal or participation at any time during the unit. This will be general discussion about how you are going and where you could improve, rather than an estimate of the numerical mark you would be awarded. To do this you will need to make an appointment with the Unit Coordinator and give at least one week's notice to allow your work to be read. You are strongly encouraged to do this at least once before Week 5 so that you know how you are going and can make any improvements while it can count.

Learning Resources Other resources Topic Notes and Readings

Topic notes readings will be released on Blackboard (Under Unit Content > Topics, Readings, Files ) at least one week before they are due to be studied.

All readings are online and linked from the Readings list. Some readings are administered by Curtin Library’s E-Reserve service so require your Curtin login and password for access.

Each assessment lists the resources that you will need to complete the work.

There are no recorded lectures for this unit.





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Assessment Assessment schedule

Detailed information on assessment tasks

1. Assessment One: Basic Excel and Trove API harvest

WEIGHTING: 50 %

IMPORTANT: Before any work in this unit can be marked, you need to complete the Assignment Declaration under ASSESSMENT > Assessment One in the Blackboard Unit. Please do this immediately.

Part 1 - Basic Excel Exercise (10%) due: Thursday Week 2 23:59 AWST

Part 2 - Trove API harvest (90%) due: Thursday Week 4 23:59 AWST

RESOURCES

You should be able to complete Assessment One using:

l Curtin University Library. (2015). APA 6th-ed - Referencing. Retrieved from http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/content.php?pid=141214&sid=1335391

l Harvey, G. (2013). Excel 2013 for Dummies. Somerset, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from http://curtin.eblib.com.au.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1110559

l The movie and instructions in the Topic material entry titled "A1 Basic Excel Exercise" l Perkins, Y. (2014, March 11). An Introduction to the Trove API. Retrieved from

https://stumblingfuture.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/an-introduction-to-the-trove-api/ l The Trove documentation starting at: National Library of Australia. (n.d.). API overview. Retrieved from

http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove/api l The Trove technical guide:

National Library of Australia. (n.d.). API technical guide. Retrieved from http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove/api-technical-guide

l the unit materials and readings, particularly Topic 2 l Similar resources found through independent research.

PART 1 - Basic Excel Exercise

DUE: Thursday 23:59AWST Week 2

You will download a sample .xls file and watch a movie instructing you how to modify the file using Excel , demonstrating basic competency with the program. You will upload the amended Excel file to your Learning Journal.

1.1 Submission: An .xls file uploaded to an entry titled "A1 Basic Excel Exercise" in your A1 Learning Journal under ASSESSMENTS > Assessment One in the Blackboard unit. Please see notes about how to use Learning Journals above.

Curtin Students please use the format ISPP2018CurtinSem2A1BasicExcelJonesJane. (Substitute the correct

Task Value % Date DueUnit Learning Outcome(s)

Assessed

1Exercise 50 percent Week: 2 and 4

Day: Thursday Time: 23:59 AWST

1,2,4,5

2Digital Object Creation 50 percent Week: 10

Day: Thursday Time: 23:59 AWST

2,5

3Professional Experience Placement Pass/Fail Week: N/A

Day: N/A Time: N/A

1,2,3,4





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https://stumblingfuture.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/an-introduction-to-the-trove-api/

http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove/api

http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove/api-technical-guide

year/semester) OUA students, please name your file in the format ISPP2018OUASP3A1BasicExcelJonesJane. Substitute the correct year/study period). Correct naming is important as there are two Excel files submitted for Assessment One.

1.2 Question: Please go to the Blackboard menu UNIT CONTENT > Topics, Readings, Files > Basic Excel Exercise and download the file called ISPPA1BasicExcel and open it in Excel. Watch the movie and change the file as instructed, pausing and playing the movie as you replicate each step. When you have completed the file, double-check it and upload it to your Learning Journal.

This assessment requires you to demonstrate use of basic Excel features at the competence level already expected of an Information Services Professional. As you work through the steps, make sure you are familiar enough with each so you could repeat them in the workplace without needing to watch the movie.

See end of the next part for the marking criteria for this part.

PART 2 - Trove API Harvesting

You will write a procedure guide to harvesting a small number of pictorial records from the Trove API into Excel, and upload two sample files of harvested records.

2.1 Submission:

2.1.1 Harvesting Exercise Output - 2 files

Two .xls files uploaded to a new entry titled "A1 Trove API Harvest output" in your A1 Learning Journal under "Assessment One" in the Blackboard unit. Please see notes about how to use Learning Journals above.

For the first file (guided search): Curtin Students please use the format ISPP2018CurtinS2A1APIGuidedJonesJane. OUA students, please name your file in the format ISPP2018OUASP3A1APIGuidedJonesJane.

For the second file (own search): Curtin Students please use the format ISPP2018CurtinS2A1APIownJonesJane. OUA students, please name your file in the format ISPP2018OUASP3A1APIownJonesJane.

2.1.2 Procedure guide - one Learning Journal entry. 750-1000 words, with images if required

One entry titled "A1 Trove API Harvest procedure" in your A1 Learning Journal under "Assessment One" in the Blackboard unit. Please see notes about how to use Learning Journals above.

Edit straight into the Learning Journal editor. Do not create a WORD document and cut and paste into the entry and do not upload a WORD document. You should aim for around 750 words. You may embed screenshots but not other multimedia. The Learning Journal resizes all images, so you need to take this into account and use clear screenshots that are readable in the entry. The marker should not need to use "view image" to read your screenshots. This entry should be no more than 1000 words. Entries over 1000 words will not be marked beyond the 1000th word.

2.3 Question:

2.3.1 Produce a procedure guide that could be used by professionally qualified archivist working in a medium-sized private school archive, showing them how to harvest pictorial records into an Excel file using the Trove API. The guide should be a "quick reference" that would allow someone who has never attempted the procedure to complete it, but also useful for someone familiar with the procedure who needs to quickly troubleshoot a step if they get stuck.

You need to use the topic notes, Perkins (2013) blog post and Trove documentation above as a guide, however the arrangement and wording of the procedure needs to be your own. If you do copy any text straight from any other source, make sure that you attribute correctly so it is clear which part is not your own work. It is very possible that the Trove interface and functions have changed a little since the Perkins post.

You should make sure that you have actually carried out the task and personally tested each part of the procedure. It is very useful to make notes as you work through each step for the first time, as this is when you





are most aware of where there will be traps and ambiguities that you should add to the procedure.

2.3.2 Your procedure should guide the user how to:

1. Get a Trove API key 2. Build a simple, two term search query on the pictorial collection in Trove and limit the search to a

specified number of records 3. Use the site "Convert XML to JSON" ( http://convertjson.com/xml-to-json.htm ) to convert the file from

XML to JSON 4. Use the site "Convert JSON to CSV" ( http://www.convertcsv.com/json-to-csv.htm ) to convert the file

from JSON to csv. 5. Save the file as an .xls file by opening it on their computer and saving it

NOTE: although you are submitting two .xls files for this assessment, the procedure that you produce should be just about how to produce a file like the second one.

2.3.3 Accompanying your procedure should be two .xls files, submitted as instructed above.

You should generate the files using your own API key. You should also use the procedure below, in 2.3.4 .

2.3.3.1 The first file will be all the data produced using this query:

http://api.trove.nla.gov.au/result?key=youractualAPIkey&zone=music&q=slim%20dusty

2.3.3.2 The second file will be all the data produced by an API search string that you build for yourself that retrieves

l 20 records ONLY l from Trove's pictures, photos, objects collection l for a query topic with just two words, chosen by yourself

(The Topic 2 notes and the Trove API technical guide should give you all the information you need to work this out: http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove/api-technical-guide . <CTRL> F is your friend ).

2.3.4 Create the each .xls file in the following way. This is deliberately brief and does not give you step-by-step information, given that you are creating your own instructions as part of this assessment.

1. Open Firefox and play with the API search string until you are satisfied that the fields and information you want appear in the output in the window

2. Go to: http://convertjson.com/xml-to-json.htm 3. Use option 2, "LoadURL" to enter the URL that you worked out in 2.3.4.1, then use the "Convert XML to

JSON" button to convert the data and download the result to your computer 4. Go to: http://www.convertcsv.com/json-to-csv.htm 5. Use Option 1 - "choose JSON file here" to upload the file from your computer 6. Go straight to "Step 3: Generate Output" and click on the "Convert JSON to CSV" button to convert the

data and download the result to your computer 7. Open the file in Excel. It should look more or less useful, with 21 rows and only some dirty data 8. Insert a new row in the top of the spreadsheet and enter your full name, student number and the date 9. Insert a new row under you name and enter the URL of your API query

10. Use "save as" to save the file as an .xls

4. MARKING CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT ONE

Please proof-read your work and ensure that you have fulfilled all the criteria below before submitting your work.

MARKING CRITERIA

A. Excel Basic Task - 10%

1. Was the file uploaded in the right place? 2. Was the file in the correct file format? 3. Is there evidence that all of the steps in the demonstration have been followed correctly? 4. Did the column format match the heading description for the column added by the student (e.g.

currency if the heading is "cost") ?







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B. API Trove data - 30%

1. Was the file uploaded in the right place ? 2. Was the file in the correct file format ? 3. Did the file contain the correct data ? 4. Did the file contain a line with the student's name etc ? 5. Did the file contain a line with the API URL ? 6. Is the API URL correctly formatted ? 7. Is the data the correct output for that URL ? 8. Is the file the output that would have been produced by using the two file conversion sites ?

C. API harvesting workflow procedure - 60%

1. Did the procedure match the scenario ? 2. Was any material that was not created by the student correctly attributed? 3. Were any screenshots easy to read ? 4. Were any screenshots contextualised and was it obvious why they were included ? 5. Were any screenshots necessary at this point in the procedure ? 6. Was the layout/structure of the piece logical and easy to follow ? 7. Was the piece sufficiently simple? 8. Was the piece sufficiently detailed ? 9. Was the piece sufficiently clear?

10. Was the piece sufficiently succinct? 11. Are technical and disciplinary terms used appropriately and correctly ? 12. Is the level of formality/casualness suitable for a the workplace in the scenario? 13. Did the instructions match the skill level of the audience? 14. Is the procedure content easy to follow? 15. Do the steps outlined produce the result required? 16. Was grammar, punctuation and spelling correct? 17. If necessary, is there correct APA6 in-text citation? 18. If there is APA6 in-text citation is there a correct APA6 reference list? 19. Were all steps covered ? 20. Is the date of the procedure indicated ? 21. Is there a lack of plagiarism ? 22. Are all the instructions in the assignment followed? 23. Is it within the word count? 24. Is there evidence that the work has been sufficiently checked/proof-read? 25. Is it clear that the work had been written to meet the marking criteria?

2. Assessment Two: Dataset cleaning with Excel

WEIGHTING: 50 %

Due: Thursday Week 10 23:59 AWST

You will clean and merge three dirty datasets into one file ready for export into a database and produce a transmission email and workflow log so that someone could replicate the steps taken to clean and merge the data.

RESOURCES

You should be able to complete this assessment using:

l Curtin University Library. (2015). APA 6th-ed - Referencing. Retrieved from http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/content.php?pid=141214&sid=1335391

l Nelson, S. L., & Nelson, E. C. (2014). Chapter 3: scrub-a-dub-dub: cleaning data. In Excel Data Analysis for Dummies (2nd Edition) (pp. 57–76). Somerset, NJ, USA: Wiley. Retrieved from http://curtin.eblib.com.au.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1676117

l the unit materials and readings, particularly Topics 3 and 4





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http://curtin.eblib.com.au.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1676117

l Similar resources found through independent research.

Dataset Cleanup

1.1 Submission:

1.1.1 An .xls file uploaded to an entry titled "A2 File of cleaned data ready for upload" in your A2 Learning Journal under "Assessment Two" in the Blackboard unit. Please see notes about how to use Learning Journals above.

Curtin Students please use the format ISPP2018CurtinS2A2DatasetCleanupJonesJane. OUA students, please name your file in the format ISPP2018OUASP3A2DatasetCleanupJonesJane.

1.1.2 A WORD document uploaded through the TurnItIn link in the Blackboard unit under "Assessment Two", labelled "A2 Transmission email and workflow log" .

1.2 Question:

This assessment requires you to use Excel formulae and functions to clean up and standardise three different datasets for upload to a destination database, and to create a workflow log so someone else could repeat this. As well as the file of cleaned records, you will submit a single document containing a transmission email and a workflow log that identifies the major errors in the datasets and the practical steps to correct these, chiefly using Excel text functions. There is more about the requirements below. The transmission email should be suitable for when you submit the records to Mrs Mary Merry in the scenario below. There is no advised layout or word limit for the workflow log, however you need to create a balance between brevity and clarity so that it is a useful working document fit for purpose. Students will be penalised for length if the document is so long and detailed that it could not be usable in the field.

1.3 Scenario

You have submitted your CV, had a phone interview, and been accepted for a small freelance job to clean up and merge three datasets ready for upload to a database for Wabbawabballup Local Council. The Council is amalgamating the artefacts and records of three different sources to create a new cultural institution, the Duit Thingumyporium.

Wabbawabballup was home for 35 years to one of the most famous thingumy designers in the world, Dr May Duit. She worked with indigenous artists to incorporate designs from particular language groups in her thingumies.There is a thriving tourist industry to support the pilgrimage to the town of designers and thingumy aficionados from all over the world.

You *may* have given the impression in the interview that you know a bit more about Dr Duit and her life and times than you actually do.

With the death of May's son, Will Duit (30 June 1935 - 1 Dec 2015), the family collection of thingumies has been vested in the Council. The Council has received Federal funding to create the purpose-built Duit Thingumyporium, which will incorporate relevant objects from:

l Will Duit's collection l the small Dooit Thuingumy Collection held in the local history section of the Wabbawabballup local

library l an anonymous donor who purchased a significant collection of Duit Thingumies in one lot at auction in

1995

You have received the email below from Mary Merry, the Chair of the Duit Thingamyarium Working Group, giving you instructions about what is required. She is the only person who has any idea about the project, after Treasurer Offin Ahuff resigned from the group and cut all contact. Sadly, Mary succumbed to ill-health, and immediately fell into a coma after sending you the email. You will be unable to ask anyone for further details, just need to do the best with the instructions that you have been given.

Hi,

The DTWG was most impressed with your CV and are very grateful that you have agreed to take on our small project to clean and merge the data accompanying the physical thingumies into one file, ready for upload to the





database for our collection.

As discussed by telephone, the former DTWG Treasurer, Mr Offin Ahuff, has spent hours in his workshop setting up an Omeka site for the Duit Thingamyarium. He has worked out the fields and how the data should look in them. He sent me the list that I have attached with this email. [NOTE: This will be available on Blackboard with the three data files under UNIT CONTENT > Topics, Readings, Files > A2 Files and data structure] Mr Ahuff had not seen the electronic records that will go with each thingumy collection before he did the set up. He is the only person currently in the town with any kind of knowledge about this kind of thing and he is, shall we say, reluctant to change his configuration.

My son, Mr Barry Merry, knows some things about Excel and says he can work out how to upload records to Omeka. When he is released on parole in three months we will have him do what he can with the datasets. He says he wants someone to look at them and tell him what things he should change and what text functions he should use in Excel to clean and merge the data. He wants you to actually do the cleanup and merging, but to leave enough information so that he can follow exactly what you did and could repeat the process to produce the same results with the same starting data. He describes himself as "lazy" so wants to minimise the amount of manual typing he does. He says that where possible your suggested solutions should use a single Excel function to automaticaly amend a number of records (e.g. using CONCATENATE to automatically enter data from two separate fields correctly into a new single field) rather than involving the user manually changing the text for individual records (e.g. using manual keystrokes to enter data from the two separate fields into a new single field).

This is where you come in. I have attached three .csv files of records that accompany the physical objects that have been donated for our display. The first set was Will’s own records from a VisiCalc spreadsheet he had been keeping since 1981. The second is an export from the library management system. The last one comes from the electronic auction catalogue.

Can you please create a "workflow log" that tells Barry what to do? Please start with what he should do when he gets the datasets on his computer and tell him what to do to clean up the data and merge the sets. Please identify the dirty data in each set. Please explain exactly what Barry should do with Excel to fix each instance of dirty data. Please also explain any sorting, or searching and replacing he should do.

We are very pleased that you know a bit about the life and family of Dr May Duit, because Mr Will Duit’s records are a little bit idiosyncratic. Given your existing interest and knowledge, we are confident that you can work out any issues. Barry would like a section at the start of your information that outlines any presumptions of fact or research or data standardisation you have used when dealing with the data and that briefly states why.

We know that sometimes Dr Duit would make up to 5 identical copies of a thingumy and that there is some overlap between collections, with an identical copy of the same thingumy instance in more than one collection. We want to make sure there is just one record in the new database for each thingumy instance, so we can just add another holding to the record if there is an identical copy.

Please take the three datasets and make them match the structure and formatting that is needed for upload to Omeka. Please send us a single .xls file that has all the relevant records from each dataset in a single worksheet, with the fields and formatting suitable for upload. The file should be what would be obtained if someone followed your workflow log.

We will be buying either a Mac with standalone Excel 2016 or a Windows machine with standalone Excel 2013. As discussed, you use one of those (but I can't remember which one, dear, sorry) so please add in the workflow log the operating system and version of Excel that you have used. If you have any questions, I am only a phone call away,

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Mary Merry

Chair, Duit Thingamyporium Working Group

Given that you can no longer contact Mrs Merry, you will have to make some educated guesses to do with the provenance and required standardisation of the data. These need to be documented thoroughly at the start of the document, and then you need to indicate where a presumption is being made during the data cleaning and merging.

For example, at the start of your document you may have a paragraph like:

PRESUMPTION 1

“Uncle Don” mentioned in Will Duit’s data is the same person as “Don Duit” in the Auction data who is the same





person as “Duit, Don” in the library data. This is based on the reasonable possibility that Will’s uncle would share the same family name.

While in the procedure you may indicate the presumption when describing the process in this way:

In the Will Duit data, in the MADE_FOR column, FIND the text "Uncle Don" and REPLACE this with "Duit, Don" (presuming from the other data sets that "Uncle Don" is "Don Duit").

Please document anything that you presume and are making an educated guess about, rather than has been given as factual data. Tests of whether this should be documented would be “if I could talk to Mary Merry, would I want to confirm this assumption before instructing someone to clean the data in this way?” AND “If I could confirm this by doing a web search (e.g. about place names), would I want to do that search first?”

You may also find that you use research to confirm some facts or definitions or standardised data formats, and if so, please document the fact that was confirmed or data standard that was used and the source that was used to do this.

MARKING CRITERIA

A. Excel file of cleaned data - 30%

1. Was the file uploaded in the right place? 2. Was the file in the correct file format? 3. Are all the records in a single worksheet ? 4. Are all the fields required in the destination present? 5. Are all the fields in the format required by the destination? 6. Are all the records that should be present included ? 7. Are any records that should not be present excluded? 8. Have duplicates been removed? 9. Is the data all value-only where this is possible for the field?

10. Is the spreadsheet what would have been produced if someone followed the workflow log?

B Data clean up solutions 40%

1. Were the most important data issues identified? 2. For each data issue identified:

1. Was the solution chosen a logical ? 2. Was the method of achieving the solution elegant and sensible? 3. Did the solution minimise the number of manual keystrokes ?

3. Were any of the issues identified NOT dirty data errors 4. Is it clear in the workflow how each of he data issues identified were solved (is there enough "working

out")? 5. Has a wide range of appropriate solutions been used, including sorting, finding and replacing and

using text functions, rather than applying the same familiar method to a number of issues ?

C. Data clean up transmission email and workflow document- 30%

1. Was the transmission email suitable to the scenario? 2. Were all presumptions that had been made in the data cleanup documented? 3. Were relevant external sources used to support the presumptions? 4. Were the presumptions reasonable and logical? 5. Were potential data standardisations identified clearly? 6. Does the document match the scenario ? 7. Was the file uploaded in the right place ? 8. Is the layout in a format that is fit for purpose? 9. Was any material that was not created by the student correctly attributed?

10. Is the layout/structure of the piece logical and easy to follow ? 11. Was the log sufficiently simple? 12. Was the log sufficiently detailed ?





13. Was the log sufficiently clear? 14. Was the log sufficiently succinct? 15. Was grammar, punctuation and spelling correct? 16. Were all steps covered ? 17. Is the operating system and version of Excel used identified in the workflow log ? 18. Was the procedure described a correct way to accomplish the task?

3.

Assessment Three: Practicum

Pass / Fail component To pass the unit, you must pass the practicum component. You pass this by either:

l ALTERNATIVE A - workplace placement arranged by the Practicum Coordinator just before, after or during the unit enrolment

l ALTERNATIVE B - demonstrating practicum equivalency by submitting appropriate documentation l ALTERNATIVE C – providing evidence of a pre 2016 or 2016, third year practicum placement in another

Information Studies unit

1. ALTERNATIVE A - Workplace placement

This is arranged by the Practicum Coordinator. Please read the Practicum Manual for details about what you will do and how you will do it. This is under Blackboard Main Menu > Practicum Information .

Third-year practicums are designed to introduce students to the work environment of information professionals and are a bridge between study and the profession. Students at these levels are expected to work as junior professional members of staff, mainly undertaking professional tasks but also some clerical tasks as required. Clerical work, however, should not comprise the major component of these practicums.

At the undergraduate level, students are required to undertake a placement in a library and information service AND in a records management and archives environment since this course is designed to produce graduates qualified in all areas. Therefore, if equivalency for first-year practicum is granted on the basis of work experience in a library and information service, or previous qualifications, the third-year practicum MUST be undertaken in a records management and archives environment, and vice versa. There will be no exceptions to this requirement.

Pass/Fail for the placement is assessed using a combination of factors, including but not limited to the:

l Student evaluation of practicum form l mentor evaluation form l Information Studies staff site evaluation (in person or by phone or email); and l other feedback from mentors or students.

The Practicum Coordinator will assess the placement after it is completed, according to whether or not the accrediting bodies’ requirements for student experience have been demonstrated. This will be moderated by a second marker. Students who have met these requirements will have passed the practicum component.

2. ALTERNATIVE B - Practicum equivalency SUBMISSION: To apply for practicum equivalency, you must submit required documentation to the practicum coordinator from your student email by FRIDAY WEEK 4. The message title should be "[firstname][lastname] ISPP practicum equivalency application"

Equivalency may be granted in the form of either a total or partial reduction in the amount of time to be spent with a host organisation. In the past, many students have opted to seek a partial equivalency in order to broaden their practical experience.

Even if you are unable to satisfy all criteria you may still be eligible for a practicum for a shorter time, so it is still worth applying.

If you are granted full or partial practicum equivalency, you still need to stay enrolled in the unit and complete the coursework.





To be eligible for equivalency for the third-year practicum, students must submit documentation that shows they meet the Third Year Practicum Equivalency Criteria.

The Third Year Practicum Equivalency Criteria are:

1. recent work experience within a relevant information service for a period of at least 12 months full-time or equivalent part-time,

2. worked under the supervision of a qualified and/or experienced professional within the relevant field, for the duration of the relevant experience,

3. undertaken duties typical of a junior qualified professional within the information service; and

4. a satisfactory reference from a current or previous professional supervisor supporting the application for exemption and verifying the nature and relevance of duties undertaken

The documentation to apply for equivalency includes:

1. a covering letter outlining the reasons for the request. You must address each of the Third Year Practicum Equivalency Criteria and indicate how you satisfy these.

2. a brief Curriculum Vitae including details of previous, current and future study (or a study plan or transcript) current enrolment and employment history. It should include evidence of relevant work experience, including information regarding positions held and duties performed, dates of service (including months and years), and fractional time worked (e.g. full time or 0.5); and

3. a written reference from a current or recent manager/supervisor supporting the application exemption and verifying the nature and relevance of duties undertaken. Ideally the supporting reference should be from a qualified professional, although at times this may not be possible. In these cases the reference should be from a manager/supervisor with sufficient knowledge and experience to assess the relevance of a student’s work experience.

Decisions about practicum equivalency are made by the Information Studies Practicum Committee, which consists of the Head of the Department, Practicum Coordinator and Course Coordinators as appropriate.

You will be notified by email about the outcome of your application for equivalency.

Any student dissatisfied with a decision of the Practicum Committee should in the first instance discuss their concerns with the Practicum Coordinator. If still dissatisfied, the student may lodge an appeal against the decision. The appeal must be in writing and must be submitted to the Head of Department within 14 calendar days of the date the student was notified of the decision.

3. ALTERNATIVE C – UNIT EQUIVALENCY

If you have previously completed a third-year level practicum placement in another unit before 2016, please email the Practicum Coordinator by FRIDAY WEEK 4 indicating that you with to claim this, attaching a copy of your academic transcript. You will be notified by email about the outcome of your application for equivalency.

Pass requirements

There are three requirements to achieve a "pass" grade in the unit.

1. An overall mark of at least 50% across Assessments One and Two 2. Successful completion (or application for equivalency) of the practicum for Assessment Three 3. All assessments must be attempted and submitted.

Failure to attempt and submit an assessment will result in a "Fail-incomplete" grade for the unit irrespective of the mark achieved.





Fair assessment through moderation

Moderation describes a quality assurance process to ensure that assessments are appropriate to the learning outcomes, and that student work is evaluated consistently by assessors. Minimum standards for the moderation of assessment are described in the Assessment and Student Progression Manual, available from policies.curtin.edu.au/policies/teachingandlearning.cfm

Late assessment policy

This ensures that the requirements for submission of assignments and other work to be assessed are fair, transparent, equitable, and that penalties are consistently applied.

1. All assessments students are required to submit will have a due date and time specified on this Unit Outline. 2. Students will be penalised by a deduction of ten percent per calendar day for a late assessment submission

(eg a mark equivalent to 10% of the total allocated for the assessment will be deducted from the marked value for every day that the assessment is late). This means that an assessment worth 20 marks will have two marks deducted per calendar day late. Hence if it was handed in three calendar days late and given a mark of 16/20, the student would receive 10/20. An assessment more than seven calendar days overdue will not be marked and will receive a mark of 0.

Assessment extension

A student unable to complete an assessment task by/on the original published date/time (eg examinations, tests) or due date/time (eg assignments) must apply for an assessment extension using the Assessment Extension form (available from the Forms page at students.curtin.edu.au/administration/) as prescribed by the Academic Registrar. It is the responsibility of the student to demonstrate and provide evidence for exceptional circumstances beyond the student's control that prevent them from completing/submitting the assessment task.

The student will be expected to lodge the form and supporting documentation with the unit coordinator before the assessment date/time or due date/time. An application may be accepted up to five working days after the date or due date of the assessment task where the student is able to provide an acceptable explanation as to why he or she was not able to submit the application prior to the assessment date. An application for an assessment extension will not be accepted after the date of the Board of Examiners' meeting.

Extensions are normally only granted when arranged prior to the deadline and due to exceptional circumstances beyond a student's control. Extensions are approved at the discretion of the Unit Coordinator and only when a student provides documentary evidence in support. Such exceptional circumstances that may warrant approval of an Assessment Extension include, but are not limited to:

l Student injury, illness or medical condition of such significance that completion of the assessment task was not possible;

l Family issues (for example, family injury or illness, bereavement etc) of such significance that completion of the assessment task was not possible;

l Commitments to participate in elite sport or other activities that warrant favorable consideration; l Commitments to assist with emergency service activities (for example, bushfire protection); l Unavoidable and unexpected work commitments (for example, relocation, changes to fly-in/fly-out schedules).

Where the grounds for applying for an Assessment Extension are injury, illness, disability or medical condition of the student (or a family member), the student will be required to provide a signed statement from a medical practitioner registered by the relevant National Medical Board (http://www.medicalboard.gov.au/) in the form prescribed by the Academic Registrar. Statements signed only by a pharmacist are unacceptable.

A School or Faculty may require students to provide a medical certificate or signed statement as described above from a specific medical practitioner or range of medical practitioners where this is considered warranted. Letters of support from the Disability Service, including Curtin Access Plans* are also acceptable if relevant to the case.

*Note: A Curtin Access Plan is a formal communication document from the Counselling and Disability Services recommending ‘reasonable adjustments’ for students with disabilities/medical conditions.

Where the grounds for applying for an Assessment Extension are work commitments, a letter from the employer





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clearly supporting the student’s claim is required.

In other situations, documentation appropriate to the circumstances will be required as determined by the unit coordinator, Head of School, or Board of Examiners.

Deferred assessments

Supplementary assessments

Supplementary assessments are not available in this unit.

Reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities/health circumstances likely to impact on studies

A Curtin Access Plan (CAP) is a document that outlines the type and level of support required by a student with a disability or health condition to have equitable access to their studies at Curtin. This support can include alternative exam or test arrangements, study materials in accessible formats, access to Curtin’s facilities and services or other support as discussed with an advisor from Disability Services (disability.curtin.edu.au). Documentation is required from your treating Health Professional to confirm your health circumstances.

If you think you may be eligible for a CAP, please contact Disability Services. If you already have a CAP please provide it to the Unit Coordinator at the beginning of each semester.

Referencing style

The referencing style for this unit is APA 6th Ed.

More information can be found on this style from the Library web site: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/referencing.

Copyright © Curtin University. The course material for this unit is provided to you for your own research and study only. It is subject to copyright. It is a copyright infringement to make this material available on third party websites.

Academic Integrity (including plagiarism and cheating) Any conduct by a student that is dishonest or unfair in connection with any academic work is considered to be academic misconduct. Plagiarism and cheating are serious offences that will be investigated and may result in penalties such as reduced or zero grades, annulled units or even termination from the course.

Plagiarism occurs when work or property of another person is presented as one's own, without appropriate acknowledgement or referencing. Submitting work which has been produced by someone else (e.g. allowing or contracting another person to do the work for which you claim authorship) is also plagiarism. Submitted work is subjected to a plagiarism detection process, which may include the use of text matching systems or interviews with students to determine authorship.

Cheating includes (but is not limited to) asking or paying someone to complete an assessment task for you or any use of unauthorised materials or assistance during an examination or test.

From Semester 1, 2016, all incoming coursework students are required to complete Curtin’s Academic Integrity Program (AIP). If a student does not pass the program by the end of their first study period of enrolment at Curtin, their marks will be withheld until they pass. More information about the AIP can be found at: https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/students/AIP.cfm

Refer to the Academic Integrity tab in Blackboard or academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au for more information, including student guidelines for avoiding plagiarism.

If your results show that you have been granted a deferred assessment you should immediately check OASIS for details.





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Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Expectations Curtin students are expected to have reliable internet access in order to connect to OASIS email and learning systems such as Blackboard and Library Services.

You may also require a computer or mobile device for preparing and submitting your work.

To successfully complete this unit you must have accessible computing facilities that allow you to view and hear multimedia, including reliable access to the Internet. Requirements are:

l a computer with the Microsoft Windows Operating System using Excel 2013 as part of stand-alone Office OR a Mac running OSX using Excel 2016. (Please see "Learning Activities" above for more specific information).

l the Blackboard Learning Journals cannot be used effectively on a mobile device such as an iPad, so you must have access to a desktop or laptop computer to complete these

l You must use the most recent stable version of the Firefox web browser for all work involving the World Wide Web in this unit, including Blackboard access.

If you do not have access to the computing facilities listed above please contact the Unit Coordinator before the end of Week One to discuss whether you will be able to complete the unit.

For general ICT assistance, in the first instance please contact OASIS Student Support: oasisapps.curtin.edu.au/help/general/support.cfm

For specific assistance with any of the items listed below, please contact The Learning Centre: life.curtin.edu.au/learning-support/learning_centre.htm

l Using Blackboard, the I Drive and Back-Up files l Introduction to PowerPoint, Word and Excel

Additional information HUM-DIS email list

All Information Studies students MUST join the HUM-DIS email list to keep in touch with internal administrative matters and employment opportunities. This is run by the Information Studies Department for OUA and Curtin students.

Instructions on joining are at: https://lists.curtin.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/hum-dis

Note: The HUM-DIS group is different to the Blackboard discussion forum used for this unit.

Enrolment

It is your responsibility to ensure that your enrolment is correct - you can check your enrolment through the eStudent option on OASIS, where you can also print an Enrolment Advice.

Student Rights and Responsibilities It is the responsibility of every student to be aware of all relevant legislation, policies and procedures relating to their rights and responsibilities as a student. These include:

l the Student Charter l the University's Guiding Ethical Principles l the University's policy and statements on plagiarism and academic integrity l copyright principles and responsibilities l the University's policies on appropriate use of software and computer facilities

Information on all these things is available through the University's "Student Rights and Responsibilities" website at: students.curtin.edu.au/rights.





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Student Equity There are a number of factors that might disadvantage some students from participating in their studies or assessments to the best of their ability, under standard conditions. These factors may include a disability or medical condition (e.g. mental illness, chronic illness, physical or sensory disability, learning disability), significant family responsibilities, pregnancy, religious practices, living in a remote location or another reason. If you believe you may be unfairly disadvantaged on these or other grounds please contact Student Equity at [email protected] or go to http://eesj.curtin.edu.au/student_equity/index.cfm for more information

You can also contact Counselling and Disability services: http://www.disability.curtin.edu.au or the Multi-faith services: http://life.curtin.edu.au/health-and-wellbeing/about_multifaith_services.htm for further information.

It is important to note that the staff of the university may not be able to meet your needs if they are not informed of your individual circumstances so please get in touch with the appropriate service if you require assistance. For general wellbeing concerns or advice please contact Curtin's Student Wellbeing Advisory Service at: http://life.curtin.edu.au/health-and-wellbeing/student_wellbeing_service.htm

Recent unit changes Students are encouraged to provide unit feedback through eVALUate, Curtin's online student feedback system. For more information about eVALUate, please refer to evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/.

Recent changes to this unit include:

This unit is running for the first time in 2016, so any feedback on what works well and what could be changed would be very helpful to future students and much appreciated by the unit coordinator.

To view previous student feedback about this unit, search for the Unit Summary Report at https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/student/unit_search.cfm. See https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/dates.cfm to find out when you can eVALUate this unit.





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Program calendar

Week Begin Date (Mon)

Topic Assessment Due (Thursday 23:59 AWST)

1. 1 August 1. Dirty Data

2. 8 August 2. Getting Data via API A1. Excel Basic component Thursday 11 August

3. 15 August 2. Getting Data via API

4. 22 August 3. Specific Data Errors CURTIN CENSUS: Friday 26 August

A1. Trove API Harvest Thursday 25 August

A3. Practicum application OR claim for equivalency submitted to Practicum Coordinator by Friday 26 August

5. 29 August Tuition Free Week Tuition Free Week

6. 5 Sept 3. Using Excel to to clean data errors

7. 12 Sept 3. Using Excel to to clean data errors

8. 19 Sept Practicum placement preparation (varies according to individual placement)

9. 26 Sept Tuition Free Week Tuition Free Week

10. 3 Oct Practicum placement preparation (varies according to individual placement)

A2. Dataset cleaning and workflow log Thursday 6 October





15 7 Nov NO EXAMINATIONS FOR THIS UNIT





Documents

INFO3008 Information Services Professional Practicum