The Discipline of Organizing (MIT Press)

The Discipline of Organizing (MIT Press)

Language: English

Pages: 475

ISBN: 0262518503

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things--books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers--and digital things--Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions of people create and browse Web sites, blog, tag, tweet, and upload and download content of all media types without thinking "I'm organizing now" or "I'm retrieving now."

This book offers a framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates information organization (IO) and information retrieval (IR), bridging the disciplinary chasms between Library and Information Science and Computer Science, each of which views and teaches IO and IR as separate topics and in substantially different ways. It introduces the unifying concept of an Organizing System--an intentionally arranged collection of resources and the interactions they support--and then explains the key concepts and challenges in the design and deployment of Organizing Systems in many domains, including libraries, museums, business information systems, personal information management, and social computing. Intended for classroom use or as a professional reference, the book covers the activities common to all organizing systems: identifying resources to be organized; organizing resources by describing and classifying them; designing resource-based interactions; and maintaining resources and organization over time. The book is extensively annotated with disciplinary-specific notes to ground it with relevant concepts and references of library science, computing, cognitive science, law, and business.

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Considered in a fixed sequence, each property creates another level in the system of categories and the classification scheme is hierarchical or taxonomic. See �7.1.4, “Classification Schemes” What is the relationship between classification and standardization? Classification and standardization are not identical, but they are closely related. Some classifications become standards, and some standards define new classifications. See �7.1.5, “Classification and Standardization” What is a.

Bigger scope due to the diversity and dynamic provisioning of their services. 11.18. Neuroscience Lab By Colin Gerber, December 2013. Overview. A neuroscience lab is doing Parkinson’s disease research in which they do experiments with rats. They use different types of rats, surgeries, and drugs for experiments and have to keep track of all this information for data analysis, publications, and lab inspectors. The existing organizing system was developed before personal computers were prevalent.

Machine learning. lexical gapA lexical gap in a language exists when it lacks a word for a concept that is expressed as a word in another language. (From lexical gap.) lexical perspectiveThe lexical perspective focuses on how the conceptual description of a relationship is expressed using words in a specific language. (From �5.2, “Describing Relationships: An Overview”.) linguistic relativityLanguages differ a great deal in the words they contain and also in more fundamental ways that they.

Digital resources Even if the resources themselves are intangible, it can be necessary to study and preserve the technological and social context in which they exist to fully understand them.51[Arc] An organizing system for digital resources can also use digital description resources that are associated with them. Since the incremental costs of adding processing and storage capacity to digital organizing systems are small, collections of both primary digital resources and description resources.

Use Internet protocols. Large research libraries organize digital journals and books, computer programs, government and scientific datasets, databases, and many other kinds of digital information. Companies organize their digital business records and customer information in enterprise applications, content repositories, and databases. Hospitals and medical clinics maintain and exchange electronic health records and digital X-rays and scans. We organize information about digital things. Digital.

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