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- Closely examines the theory and practice of organizing information objects, including books, ebooks, journals, articles, web pages, images, CDs, DVDs, video tapes, letters, emails and podcasts, in the digital age
- Provides an in-depth historical and technical background for digital librarianship, as well as traditional librarianship in the modern era
- Serves as a comprehensive reference guide to information and library science for both graduate-level students and information professionals working at a design level
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides an in-depth technical background for digital librarianship, and covers a broad range of theoretical and practical topics including: classification theory, topic annotation, automatic clustering, generalized synonymy and concept indexing, distributed libraries, semantic web ontologies and Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). It also analyzes the challenges facing today’s information architects, and outlines a series of techniques for overcoming them.
Logic and the Organization of Information is intended for practitioners and professionals working at a design level as a reference book for digital librarianship. Advanced-level students, researchers and academics studying information science, library science,digital libraries and computer science will also find this book invaluable.
Authors and Affiliations
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, School of Information Resources, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Martin Frické
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Logic and the Organization of Information
Authors: Martin Frické
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3088-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3087-2
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9452-3
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3088-9
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 312
Topics: Information Storage and Retrieval, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Multimedia Information Systems