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