Introduction to the Organization of Information

The book explains and discusses its topics at an introductory college graduate level, and is suitable as a text for a one semester graduate course.


Sections in the book include:

 

Section 1: Introduction


     1. Introduction to Organization of Information I

     2. Graphs, Trees, Hierarchies, Polyhierarchies, and Facets

     3. The Triangle of Meaning, Controlled Vocabularies, and Thesauri

 

Section 2: Retrieval Tools


     4. Indexing

     5. Introduction to Other Library Retrieval Tools

     6. Tables and Database

     7. Database and Libraries

     8. Example: MeSH

 

Section 3: Classification


     9. Subject Tagging

    10. Subject Heading Schemes

    11. Bibliographic, MARC and Surrogate Records

    12. Classification

    13. Classification Schemes

 

Section 4: Topics


    14. Display

    15. Quality of Cataloging

    16. Standard Web Search Engines, and the Deep Web

    17. Search Innovations

    18. F.R.B.R.

    19. Metadata Markup

    20. Metadata Initiatives I

    21. Metadata Initiatives II

    22. Review

    23. Review II