Organizing Information : From the Shelf to

Tomorrow¿s LIS professionals will have to be conversant with all the tools and techniques for organizing information in different domains - from the library¿s shelves to the web and digital libraries. This core text covers the organization of the entire spectrum of information, and the principles, tools and techniques needed to do this effectively. The most up-to-date textbook yet available on this subject, this comprehensive book covers everything from traditional cat & class, through to metadata, information architecture and the semantic web.

G. G. Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde.

Organizing information : what it means	p. 1
Information organization in non library environments	p. 17
Cataloguing	p. 29
Bibliographical formats : MARC 21 and others	p. 47
Library classification	p. 71
Subject heading lists and thesauri information organization	p. 131
Metadata	p. 139
Markup languages	p. 157
Ontology	p. 171
Information architecture	p. 187
The semantic web	p. 197
Information organization : issues and trends	p. 213
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Organizing Information : From the Shelf to the Web

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