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

Elaine Svenonius

ISBN 10: 0262194333 / ISBN 13: 9780262194334

Published by Mit Pr, 2000

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0262194333I4N00

Synopsis:

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.

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. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is an analytic discussion of the intellectual foundation of information organization. The second 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 in terms of their vocabulary, semantics, and syntax. The book is written in an exceptionally clear style, at a level that makes it understandable to those outside the discipline of library and information science.

Review: "

""The Intellectual Foundations of Information Organization" is a dense, intellectually rigorous, and well-written book.... A major contribution to the field of cataloging."-- "Journal of the Association for History and Computing"

"This book provides sound guidance to future developers of search engines and retrieval systems. The work is original, building on the foundations of information science and librarianship of the past 150 years."--Barbara B. Tillett, Director, ILS Program, Library of Congress

" "The Intellectual Foundations of InformationOrganization" is a dense, intellectually rigorous, and well-writtenbook.... A major contribution to the field of cataloging." Journal of theAssociation for History and Computing

" "The Intellectual Foundations of Information Organization" is a dense, intellectually rigorous, and well-written book.... A major contribution to the field of cataloging." Journal of the Association for History and Computing

" The Intellectual Foundations of Information Organization is a dense, intellectually rigorous, and well-written book.... A major contribution to the field of cataloging." Journal of the Association for History and Computing

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Intellectual Foundation of Information ...
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket