The Organization of Information

by Taylor, Arlene G.

• ISBN13: 9781591587002
• ISBN10: 159158700X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-23
• Publisher: ABC CLIO LTD

Summary

This third edition of Taylor's modern classic continues to articulate the theory, principles, standards, and tools behind information organization. As with previous editions, it begins with strong justification for the continued importance of organizing principles and practice. Following a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor and Joudrey provide a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as inventories, bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities; and subsequently trace the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present. Standards of codification (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), controlled vocabularies and ontologies, and Web 2.0 technologies are but a sample of its extensive topical coverage

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Organization of Recorded Information

Retrieval Tools

Development of the Organization of Recorded Information in Western Civilization

Metadata

Encoding Standards

Systems and System Design

Metadata: Description

Metadata: Access and Authority Control

Subject Analysis

Systems for Vocabulary Control

Systems for Categorization

Conclusion

An Approach to Subject Analysis

Arrangement of Physical Information Resources

Arrangement of Metadata Displays

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index

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