Organizing Knowledge,9780566080470

Organizing Knowledge

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780566080470
ISBN10: 0566080478
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher(s): Gower Pub Co
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Author Biography

Jennifer Rowley is Head of the School of Management and Social Sciences at Edge Hill University College.

Table of Contents

List of figures
ix
Introduction xiii
List of acronyms and abbreviations
xvii
Part I Information Basics
Contexts for the organization of knowledge
3(16)
Defining information and knowledge
5(5)
The 7 Rs of information management
10(4)
Information processing, information management and knowledge management
14(2)
Summary
16(3)
Formatting and structuring knowledge
19(40)
Information and its uses
19(2)
Knowledge, information and data
21(1)
Tools for organizing information
22(5)
Databases
27(10)
Text and multimedia
37(3)
Documents
40(2)
Bibliographic relationships
42(2)
Text analysis
44(2)
Text markup and metadata
46(8)
Summary
54(5)
Part II Records
Describing documents
59(36)
Characteristics and problems of document representation
59(3)
Citations
62(5)
Abstracts
67(4)
Record formats in abstracting and indexing services
71(1)
Bibliographic record formats
71(14)
The MARC record format
85(4)
The Common Communications Format
89(1)
Record formats in local systems
90(1)
Summary
91(4)
Part III Access
Users and interfaces
95(28)
Users
96(3)
The processes of searching and indexing
99(4)
Search strategies
103(6)
Interface design
109(11)
Summary
120(3)
Indexing and searching languages
123(42)
Approaches to subject retrieval
123(4)
Features of retrieval systems
127(6)
Search facilities in post-coordinate searching
133(10)
Principles of language control
143(10)
Facet analysis
153(1)
Displaying the thesaurus
154(6)
Thesaurus use
160(1)
Summary
161(4)
Pre-coordination and subject headings
165(26)
Syntax and pre-coordination
166(7)
Traditional Cutter-based subject headings lists
173(2)
Library of Congress subject headings
175(5)
Facet analysis and subject headings
180(4)
Access from subordinate terms in subject headings
184(4)
Assigning subject headings
188(1)
Summary
189(2)
Classification and systematic order
191(24)
Categories, hierarchies and systematic arrangement
191(3)
Bibliographic classification
194(1)
Component parts of a classification scheme
195(1)
Schedules
195(10)
Other components
205(6)
The classification process
211(2)
Summary
213(2)
Bibliographic classification schemes
215(30)
The Dewey Decimal Classification
215(10)
The Library of Congress Classification
225(4)
Other general classifications
229(11)
Modifying published classification schemes
240(1)
Special classification schemes
241(1)
Summary
242(3)
Access points in catalogues and bibliographies
245(30)
What is a catalogue?
246(1)
Functions of catalogues
247(5)
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
252(1)
Choice of access points
253(4)
Headings for persons
257(3)
Corporate bodies
260(4)
Uniform titles
264(2)
Discussion
266(4)
Summary
270(5)
Part IV Systems
Systems contexts for knowledge organization
275(30)
Public access systems
275(3)
Online search services
278(5)
CD-ROMs
283(7)
Online public access catalogues
290(10)
Summary
300(5)
The Internet and its applications
305(30)
The Internet
305(4)
Searching the Internet
309(5)
Creating and maintaining a Web site
314(7)
Establishing a subject gateway
321(2)
Document publishing on the Web
323(7)
Challenges for the Internet
330(1)
Summary
331(4)
Manual information retrieval systems
335(26)
Document arrangement
335(4)
Manual and computerized catalogues and indexes compared
339(3)
Printed catalogues (including card and microforms)
342(3)
Creating and searching printed indexes
345(6)
Book indexing
351(2)
Filing order and sequences
353(6)
Summary
359(2)
Management of systems for the organization of knowledge
361(32)
Evaluation of systems for the organization of knowledge and information retrieval
362(7)
Maintaining databases and authority control
369(3)
Managing systems for knowledge organization
372(3)
Evolving and migrating systems
375(3)
Organizations in knowledge organization and delivery
378(9)
Summary
387(6)
Index 393

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