The organization of information

• Main Author: Taylor, Arlene G. 1941- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Englewood, CT Libraries Unlimited 2004
• Edition: Second edition
• Series: Library and information science text series
• Subjects: Information organization; Metadata
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• Physical Description: xxvii, 417 pages illustration 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-405) and index
• ISBN: 9781563089695; 1563089769 (alk. paper); 1563089696

The extensively revised and completely updated second edition of this popular textbook provides LIS practitioners and students with a vital guide to the organization of information. After a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor proceeds to a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities. After tracing the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present, the author addresses topics that include encoding standards (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), metadata (description, access, and access control), verbal subject analysis including controlled vocabularies and ontologies, classification theory and methodology, arrangement and display, and system design.