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The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

Paperback

Series: Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing

General ReferenceGeneral ComputersGeneral Science

ISBN10: 0262512610
ISBN13: 9780262512619
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 1 2009
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.33 Depth: 8.78
Language: English
Integrating the disparate disciplines of descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, indexing, and classification, the book adopts a conceptual framework that views the process of organizing information as the use of a special language of description called a bibliographic language.

Instant electronic access to digital information is the single most distinguishing attribute of the information age. The elaborate retrieval mechanisms that support such access are a product of technology. But technology is not enough. The effectiveness of a system for accessing information is a direct function of the intelligence put into organizing it. Just as the practical field of engineering has theoretical physics as its underlying base, the design of systems for organizing information rests on an intellectual foundation. The subject of this book is the systematized body of knowledge that constitutes this foundation.

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