The Organization of Information

This fourth edition provides an updated look at information organization featuring coverage of the Semantic Web linked data and EAC-CPF; new metadata models such as IFLA-LRM and RiC; and new perspectives on RDA and its implementation.This latest edition of The Organization of Information is a key resource for anyone in the beginning stages of their LIS career as well as longstanding professionals and paraprofessionals seeking accurate clear and up-to-date guidance on information organization activities across the discipline. The book begins with a historical look at information organization methods covering libraries archives museums and online settings. It then addresses the types of retrieval tools used throughout the discipline-catalogs finding aids indexes bibliographies and search engines-before describing the functionality of systems explaining the basic principles of system design and defining how they affect information organization. The principles and functionality of metadata is next with coverage of the types functions tools and models (particularly FRBR IFLA-LRM RDF) and how encoding works for use and sharing-for example MARC XML schemas and linked data approaches.The latter portion of the resource describes specific activities related to the creation of metadata for resources. These chapters offer an overview of the major issues challenges and standards used in the information professions addressing topics such as resource description (including standards found in RDA DACS and CCO) access points authority control subject analysis controlled vocabularies-notably LCSH MeSH Sears and AAT-and categorization systems such as DDC and LCC.