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Table of Contents (Notes Version)

1. Abstract pg. 1
2. Foundations for Organizing Systems pg. 2
3. Design Decisions in Organizing Systems pg. 14
4. Activities in Organizing Systems pg. 27
5. Resources in Organizing Systems pg. 62
6. Resource Description and Metadata pg. 87
7. Describing Relationships and Structures pg. 119
8. Categorization: Describing Resource Classes and Types pg. 119
9. The Organizing System Roadmap pg. 125
10. Bibliography pg. 126
11. Glossary pg. 127

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Table of Contents (Full Version)

ContentsForeword to the First Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Preface to the Fourth Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
1.
Foundations for Organizing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.1.
The Discipline of Organizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.2.
The “Organizing System” Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.3.
The Concept of “Resource” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
1.4.
The Concept of “Collection” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1.5.
The Concept of “Intentional Arrangement” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
1.6.
The Concept of “Organizing Principle” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
1.7.
The Concept of “Agent” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
1.8.
The Concept of “Interactions” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
1.9.
The Concept of “Interaction Resource” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
1.10.
Organizing This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
2.
Design Decisions in Organizing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
2.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
2.2.
What Is Being Organized? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
2.3.
Why Is It Being Organized? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
2.4.
How Much Is It Being Organized? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
2.5.
When Is It Being Organized? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
2.6.
How (or by Whom) Is It Organized? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
2.7.
Where is it being Organized? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
2.8.
Key Points in Chapter Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
3.
Activities in Organizing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
3.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
3.2.
Selecting Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
3.2.1.
Selection Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
3.2.2.
Looking “Upstream” and “Downstream” to Select Resources . . . . 100
3.3.
Organizing Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
3.3.1.
Organizing Physical Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
3.3.2.
Organizing Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
3.3.3.
Organizing Digital Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
3.3.4.
Organizing With Descriptive Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
3.3.5.
Organizing with Multiple Resource Properties . . . . . . . . . 125
3.4.
Designing Resource-based Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
3.4.1.
Affordance and Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
3.4.2.
Interaction and Value Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
3.4.3.
Access Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
3.5.
Maintaining Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
3.5.1.
Motivations for Maintaining Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
3.5.2.
Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
3.5.3.
Curation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
3.5.4.
Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
3.6.
Key Points in Chapter Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
4.
Resources in Organizing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
4.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
4.1.1.
What Is a Resource? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
4.1.2.
Identity, Identifiers, and Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
4.2.
Four Distinctions about Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
4.2.1.
Resource Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
4.2.2.
Resource Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
4.2.3.
Resource Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
4.2.4.
Resource Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
4.2.5.
Resource Format x Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
4.3.
Resource Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
4.3.1.
Identity and Physical Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
4.3.2.
Identity and Bibliographic Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
4.3.3.
Identity and Information Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
4.3.4.
Identity and Active Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
4.4.
Naming Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
4.4.1.
What’s in a Name? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
4.4.2.
The Problems of Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
4.4.3.
Choosing Good Names and Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
4.5.
Resources over Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
4.5.1.
Persistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
4.5.2.
Effectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
4.5.3.
Authenticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
4.5.4.
Provenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
4.6.
Key Points in Chapter Four . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
5.
Resource Description and Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
5.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
5.2.
An Overview of Resource Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
5.2.1.
Naming {and, or, vs.} Describing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
5.2.2. “Description” as an Inclusive Term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
5.2.3.
Frameworks for Resource Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
5.3.
The Process of Describing Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
5.3.1.
Determining the Scope and Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
5.3.2.
Determining the Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
5.3.3.
Identifying Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
5.3.4.
Designing the Description Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
5.3.5.
Designing the Description Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
5.3.6.
Creating Resource Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
5.3.7.
Evaluating Resource Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
5.4.
Describing Non-text Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
5.4.1.
Describing Museum and Artistic Resources . . . . . . . . . . . 277
5.4.2.
Describing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
5.4.3.
Describing Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
5.4.4.
Describing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
5.5.
Key Points in Chapter Five . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
6.
Describing Relationships and Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
6.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
6.2.
Describing Relationships: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
6.3.
The Semantic Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
6.3.1.
Types of Semantic Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
6.3.2.
Properties of Semantic Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
6.3.3.
Ontologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
6.4.
The Lexical Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
6.4.1.
Relationships among Word Meanings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
6.4.2.
Thesauri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
6.4.3.
Relationships among Word Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
6.5.
The Structural Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
6.5.1.
Intentional, Implicit, and Explicit Structure . . . . . . . . . . . 320
6.5.2.
Structural Relationships within a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . 321
6.5.3.
Structural Relationships between Resources . . . . . . . . . 324
6.6.
The Architectural Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
6.6.1.
Degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
6.6.2.
Cardinality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
6.6.3.
Directionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
6.7.
The Implementation Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
6.7.1.
Choice of Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
6.7.2.
Syntax and Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
6.7.3.
Requirements for Implementation Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
6.8.
Relationships in Organizing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
6.8.1.
The Semantic Web and Linked Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
6.8.2.
Bibliographic Organizing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
6.8.3.
Integration and Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
6.9.
Key Points in Chapter Six . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
7.
Categorization: Describing Resource Classes and Types . . . . . . 349
7.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
7.2.
The What and Why of Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
7.2.1.
Cultural Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
7.2.2.
Individual Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
7.2.3.
Institutional Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
7.2.4.
A “Categorization Continuum” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
7.2.5.
Computational Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
7.3.
Principles for Creating Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
7.3.1.
Enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
7.3.2.
Single Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
7.3.3.
Multiple Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
7.3.4.
The Limits of Property-Based Categorization . . . . . . . . . 372
7.3.5.
Probabilistic Categories and “Family Resemblance” . . . . 374
7.3.6.
Similarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
7.3.7.
Goal-Derived Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
7.3.8.
Theory-Based Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
7.4.
Category Design Issues and Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
7.4.1.
Category Abstraction and Granularity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
7.4.2.
Basic or Natural Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
7.4.3.
The Recall / Precision Tradeoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
7.4.4.
Category Audience and Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
7.5.
Implementing Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
7.5.1.
Implementing Enumerated Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
7.5.2.
Implementing Categories Defined by Properties . . . . . . . 388
7.5.3.
Implementing Categories Defined by Probability and Similarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
7.5.4.
Implementing Goal-Based Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
7.5.5.
Implementing Theory-Based Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
7.6.
Key Points in Chapter Seven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
8.
Classification: Assigning Resources to Categories . . . . . . . . . . . 417
8.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
8.1.1.
Classification vs. Categorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
8.1.2.
Classification vs. Tagging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
8.1.3.
Classification vs. Physical Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
8.1.4.
Classification Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
8.1.5.
Classification and Standardization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
8.2.
Understanding Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
8.2.1.
Classification Is Purposeful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
8.2.2.
Classification Is Principled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
8.2.3.
Classification Is Biased . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
8.3.
Bibliographic Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
8.3.1.
The Dewey Decimal Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
8.3.2.
The Library of Congress Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
8.3.3.
The BISAC Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
8.4.
Faceted Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
8.4.1.
Foundations for Faceted Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
8.4.2.
Faceted Classification in Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
8.4.3.
A Classification for Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
8.4.4.
Designing a Faceted Classification System . . . . . . . . . . . 451
8.5.
Classification by Activity Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
8.6.
Computational Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
8.7.
Key Points in Chapter Eight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
9.
The Forms of Resource Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
9.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
9.2.
Structuring Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
9.2.1.
Kinds of Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
9.2.2.
Comparing Metamodels: JSON, XML and RDF . . . . . . . . . 481
9.2.3.
Modeling within Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
9.3.
Writing Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
9.3.1.
Notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
9.3.2.
Writing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
9.3.3.
Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
9.4.
Worlds of Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
9.4.1.
The Document Processing World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
9.4.2.
The Web World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
9.4.3.
The Semantic Web World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
9.5.
Key Points in Chapter Nine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
10.
Interactions with Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
10.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
10.2.
Determining Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
10.2.1.
User Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
10.2.2.
Socio-Political and Organizational Constraints . . . . . . . . 526
10.3.
Reorganizing Resources for Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
10.3.1.
Identifying and Describing Resources for Interactions . . 529
10.3.2.
Transforming Resources for Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
10.4.
Implementing Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
10.4.1.
Interactions Based on Instance Properties . . . . . . . . . . . 538
10.4.2.
Interactions Based on Collection Properties . . . . . . . . . . 538
10.4.4.
Interactions Based on Combining Resources . . . . . . . . . 544
10.5.
Evaluating Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
10.5.1.
Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
10.5.2.
Effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
10.5.3.
Satisfaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
10.6.
Key Points in Chapter Ten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
11.
The Organizing System Roadmap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
11.1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
11.2.
The Organizing System Lifecycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
11.3.
Defining and Scoping the Organizing System Domain . . . . . . . . . 562
11.3.1.
Scope and Scale of the Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
11.3.2.
Number and Nature of Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
11.3.3.
Expected Lifetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
11.3.4.
Physical or Technological Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
11.3.5.
Relationship to Other Organizing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 567
11.4.
Identifying Requirements for an Organizing System . . . . . . . . . . 568
11.4.1.
Requirements for Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
11.4.2.
About the Nature and Extent of Resource Description . . 569
11.4.3.
About Intentional Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572
11.4.4.
Dealing with Conflicting Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
11.5.
Designing and Implementing an Organizing System . . . . . . . . . . 574
11.5.1.
Choosing Scope- and Scale-Appropriate Technology . . . . 574
11.5.2.
Architectural Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
11.5.3.
Distinguishing Access from Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
11.5.4.
Standardization and Legacy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 577
11.6.
Operating and Maintaining an Organizing System . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
11.6.1.
Resource Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
11.6.2.
Properties, Principles and Technology Perspective . . . . . 579
11.7.
Key Points in Chapter Eleven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
12.
Case Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
12.1.
A Multi-generational Photo Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
12.2.
Knowledge Management for a Small Consulting Firm . . . . . . . . . . 591
12.3.
Smarter Farming in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
12.4.
Single-Source Textbook Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
12.5.
Organizing a Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
12.6.
Earth Orbiting Satellites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
12.7.
CalBug and its Search Interface Redesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
12.8.
Weekly Newspaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
12.9.
The CODIS DNA Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
12.10.
Honolulu Rail Transit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
12.11.
The Antikythera Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616
12.13.
IP Addressing in the Global Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624
12.14.
The Art Genome Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
12.15.
Making a Documentary Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628
12.16.
The Dabbawalas of Mumbai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
12.17.
Managing Information About Data Center Resources . . . . . . . . . . 634
12.18.
Neuroscience Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
12.19.
A Nonprofit Book Publisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762
Colophon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

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RT - Information
BT - Ideas
NT - Cataloging
UF - Intangible & Tangible Cataloging of Ideas.
SN - Information as a Thing. (This entry does not reference a hierarchical list)

Helpful introduction to the theory and practice of organizing for the purposes of information organization and retrieval. Includes charts, tables, and examples that are readily understandable and relatable to a novice in the field of information organization. ( )

Very informative book. Clearly defines the structure of creating and developing metadata. ( )

A very thorough explanation of library organizing principles and how they apply to computer science (which are becoming one in the same). The authors provide helpful graphics, and real-world examples to illustrate principles, and current issues such as linked data are discussed. ( )