The fourth edition of this standard student text, "Organizing Knowledge", incorporates extensive revisions reflecting the increasing shift towards a networked and digital information environment, and its impact on documents, information, knowledge, users and managers.Offering a broad-based overview of the approaches and tools used in the structuring and dissemination of knowledge, it is written in an accessible style and well illustrated with figures and examples. The book has been structured into three parts and twelve chapters and has been thoroughly updated throughout.Part I discusses the nature, structuring and description of knowledge. Part II, with its five chapters, lies at the core of the book focusing as it does on access to information. Part III explores different types of knowledge organization systems and considers some of the management issues associated with such systems. Each chapter includes learning objectives, a chapter summary and a list of references for further reading.This is a key introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of information management.
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Jennifer Rowley is Professor of Marketing and Information Management in the Bangor Business School at the University of Wales Bangor, UK. Richard Hartley is Professor of Information Science and Head of the Department of Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
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library management, dictionary catalog, colon classification, controlled indexing languages, controlled language systems, standard citation order, bibliographic classification schemes, special classification schemes, notational base, enumerative classification, filing value, natural language indexing, facet indicators, filing sequences, knowledge organization systems, document surrogate, bibliographic agencies, document arrangement, transaction log analysis, compound topics, search profile, faceted classification, facet analysis, shelf arrangement, cataloguing rules Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Library of Congress, Journal of Documentation, Libraries Unlimited, Great Britain, Journal of Information Science, Library Association, Dewey Decimal Classification, International Standards Organization, Semantic Web, New York, British Library, Dublin Core, World Wide Web, University of Chicago Press, Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Spärck Jones, Classification Web, The King's Singers, Bliss Bibliographic Classification, Prentice Hall, Web of Science, Academic Press, British Isles, British Standard, Information Research Browse Sample Pages:
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library management, dictionary catalog, colon classification, controlled indexing languages, controlled language systems, standard citation order, bibliographic classification schemes, special classification schemes, notational base, enumerative classification, filing value, natural language indexing, facet indicators, filing sequences, knowledge organization systems, document surrogate, bibliographic agencies, document arrangement, transaction log analysis, compound topics, search profile, faceted classification, facet analysis, shelf arrangement, cataloguing rules Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Library of Congress, Journal of Documentation, Libraries Unlimited, Great Britain, Journal of Information Science, Library Association, Dewey Decimal Classification, International Standards Organization, Semantic Web, New York, British Library, Dublin Core, World Wide Web, University of Chicago Press, Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Spärck Jones, Classification Web, The King's Singers, Bliss Bibliographic Classification, Prentice Hall, Web of Science, Academic Press, British Isles, British Standard, Information Research Browse Sample Pages:
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