The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)

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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 using a special language of description referred to as a bibliographic language.

Instant electronic get right of entry to to digital information is the single most distinguishing attribute of the information age. The elaborate retrieval mechanisms that fortify such get right of entry to are a product of technology. But technology isn’t enough. The effectiveness of a system for having access to information is an instantaneous 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.

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 using a special language of description referred to as a bibliographic language. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is an analytic discussion of the intellectual foundation of information organization. The second one part moves from generalities to particulars, presenting an overview of three bibliographic languages: work languages, document languages, and subject languages. It looks at these languages on the subject of their vocabulary, semantics, and syntax.

The book is written in an exceptionally clear style, at a level that makes it understandable to those outdoor the discipline of library and information science.

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