New Directions in Information Organization

New Directions in Information Organization, co-edited by Dr. Jung-ran Park and Dr. Lynne Howarth seeks to provide an overview and understanding of the future directions, leading edge theories and models for research and practice in information organization. New information standards and digital library technologies are being developed at a rapid pace as diverse communities of practice seek new ways to organize massive quantities of digital resources. Today's digital information explosion creates an increased demand for new perspectives, methods and tools for research and practice in information organization. This new direction in information organization is even more critical owing to changing user needs and expectations in conjunction with the collaborative and decentralized nature of bibliographic control. The general aim of this book is to present the current state of the digital information revolution with the associated opportunities and challenges to information organization. Through an interdisciplinary perspective, it presents broad, holist and more integrated perspective on the nature of information organization and examines new direction in information organization research and thinking. The book highlights the need to understand information organization and the Web 2.0 in the context of the rapidly changing information world and provides an overview of key trends and further research. This volume uncovers the key emerging subjects in information organization. Some of the topics covered include the Semantic Web, linked data, new generation library catalogs, Resource Description and Access which is new cataloging codes, social cataloging and tagging, Web 2.0 technologies, organizing and sharing digital images, faceted browsing and searching, and metadata quality standards. The information revolution in the digital environment affords researchers and practitioners unprecedented opportunities as well as challenges. Through systematic research findings utilizing an array of perspectives and research methods, this volume address key issues centering on information organization in the context of the information revolution and future research directions. The reader is provided with the breadth of emerging information standards and technologies for organizing networked and digital resources. Readers may also benefit from practical perspectives and applications of digital library technologies for information organization. We hope that this volume stimulates new avenues of research and practice and contribute to the development of a new paradigm in information organization.