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9781856045780

Organizing Information : From the Shelf to the Web

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    9781856045780

  • ISBN10:

    1856045781

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-07-01
  • Publisher: Amer Library Assn
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Summary

Tomorrow¿s LIS professionals will have to be conversant with all the tools and techniques for organizing information in different domains - from the library¿s shelves to the web and digital libraries. This core text covers the organization of the entire spectrum of information, and the principles, tools and techniques needed to do this effectively. The most up-to-date textbook yet available on this subject, this comprehensive book covers everything from traditional cat & class, through to metadata, information architecture and the semantic web.

Author Biography

G. G. Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde.

Table of Contents

Organizing information : what it meansp. 1
Information organization in non library environmentsp. 17
Cataloguingp. 29
Bibliographical formats : MARC 21 and othersp. 47
Library classificationp. 71
Subject heading lists and thesauri information organizationp. 131
Metadatap. 139
Markup languagesp. 157
Ontologyp. 171
Information architecturep. 187
The semantic webp. 197
Information organization : issues and trendsp. 213
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