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Abbas, June

 
9781555706999: Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schema
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ISBN 10: 1555706991 ISBN 13: 9781555706999
Casa editrice: Neal Schuman Pub, 2010

Sinossi

LIS professionals use structures for organizing knowledge when they catalog and classify objects in the collection, when they develop databases, when they design customized taxonomies, or when they search online.

Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schema explores and explains this basic function by looking at three questions: 1) How do we organize objects so that they make sense and are useful? 2) What role do categories, classifications, taxonomies, and other structures play in the process of organizing? 3) What do information professionals need to know about organizing behaviors in order to design useful structures for organizing knowledge?

Taking a broad, yet specialized approach that is a first in the field, this book answers those questions by examining three threads: traditional structures for organizing knowledge; personal structures for organizing knowledge; and socially-constructed structures for organizing knowledge. Through these threads, it offers avenues for expanding thinking on classification and classification schemes, taxonomy and ontology development, and structures. Both a history of the development of taxonomies and an analysis of current research, theories, and applications, this volume explores a wide array of topics, including the new digital, social aspect of taxonomy development.

Examples of subjects covered include:

Formal and informal structures
Applications of knowledge structures
Classification schemes
Early taxonomists and their contributions
Social networking, bookmarking, and cataloging sites
Cataloging codes
Standards and best practices
Tags, tagging, and folksonomies
Descriptive cataloging
Metadata schema standards

Thought exercises, references, and a list of helpful websites augment each section. A final chapter, "Thinking Ahead: Are We at a Crossroads?" uses envisioning exercises to help LIS professionals look into the future.

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Book by June Abbas

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Editore
Neal Schuman Pub
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1555706991
ISBN 13 
9781555706999
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
249
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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