The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization (Paperback)

Elaine Svenonius

商品描述

Instant electronic access to digital information is the single most distinguishing attribute of the information age. The elaborate retrieval mechanisms that support such access are a product of technology. But technology is not enough. The effectiveness of a system for accessing information is a direct function of the intelligence put into organizing it. Just as the practical field of engineering has theoretical physics as its underlying base, the design of systems for organizing information rests on an intellectual foundation. The subject of this book is the systematized body of knowledge that constitutes this foundation.

Integrating the disparate disciplines of descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, indexing, and classification, the book adopts a conceptual framework that views the process of organizing information as the use of a special language of description called a bibliographic language. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is an analytic discussion of the intellectual foundation of information organization. The second part moves from generalities to particulars, presenting an overview of three bibliographic languages: work languages, document languages, and subject languages. It looks at these languages in terms of their vocabulary, semantics, and syntax. The book is written in an exceptionally clear style, at a level that makes it understandable to those outside the discipline of library and information science.

Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing series

商品描述(中文翻譯)

即時電子存取數位資訊是資訊時代最為獨特的特點。支援此類存取的精密檢索機制是科技的產物。然而,單靠科技是不夠的。存取資訊系統的效能直接取決於組織資訊所投入的智慧。就像實際工程領域以理論物理學為基礎一樣,組織資訊系統的設計也建立在智識基礎之上。本書的主題是構成這個基礎的系統化知識體系。

本書整合了描述目錄、主題目錄、索引和分類等不同學科,採用一個概念框架,將組織資訊的過程視為使用一種特殊的描述語言,即書目語言。本書分為兩部分。第一部分是對資訊組織智識基礎的分析討論。第二部分從一般到具體,概述了三種書目語言:作品語言、文件語言和主題語言。它從詞彙、語義和語法的角度來看待這些語言。本書以非常清晰的風格撰寫,適合非圖書館和資訊科學專業背景的讀者理解。

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