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Type of Resource: Article
Author: Aristotle
Title: Categories
Location/Identifier: http://www.classicallibrary.org/aristotle/categories/
Subject: Classification
Keyword: Homonyms; Synonyms; Derivatives; Simple and composite expressions; Predicates; Objects of thought; Substance; Quantity; Relation; Qualities; Action and affection; Four classes of opposites; Contraries; Use of the term "prior"; Use of the term "simultaneous"; Six kinds of motion; The Meanings of the term "to have"
Description: This is a translation by E.M. Edghill of Aristotle's Categories, the classical theory of classification. There are fifteen (15) parts in three (3) sections.
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Copyright: 2001 The Classical library
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Article
Author: Howard Beck and Helena Sofia Pinto
Title: Overview of Approach, Methodologies, Standards, and Tools for Ontologies
Location/Identifier: http://www.fao.org/agris/aos/Documents/BackgroundAOS.html
Subject: Ontology
Keyword: Thesaurus; Database management; Natural language processing
Description: This paper discusses the similarities and differences between thesauri and ontologies, and it can be used as supplementary reading material.
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Copyright: 2001, 2002, Helena Sofia Andrade Nunes Pereira Pinto (Sections 2, 3, and 5); 2002 University of Florida (Sections 1, 4, and 6).
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
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Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Article
Author: Michael Buckland
Title: What is a Document?
Location/Identifier: http://sims.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.html
Subject: Information Organization
Keyword: Information science; documentation
Description: This is a preprint of an article published in the Journal of the American Society of Information Science 48, no. 9 (Sept 1997): 804-809, published for the American Society for Information Science by Wiley and available online to ASIS members and other registered users at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/. Also, reprinted in Hahn, T. B. & M. Buckland, eds. Historical Studies in Information Science. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1998, 215-220. This text may vary slightly from the published version. The Abstract reads: Ordinarily the word "document" denotes a textual record. Increasingly sophisticated attempts to provide access to the rapidly growing quantity of available documents raised questions about which should be considered a "document". The answer is important for any definition of the scope of Information Science. Paul Otlet and others developed a functional view of "document" and discussed whether, for example, sculpture, museum objects, and live animals, could be considered "documents". Suzanne Briet equated "document" with organized physical evidence. These ideas appear to resemble notions of "material culture" in cultural anthropology and "object-as-sign" in semiotics. Others, especially in the USA (e.g. Jesse Shera and Louis Shores) took a narrower view. New digital technology renews old questions and also old confusions between medium, message, and meaning.
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Copyright: Michael Buckland
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Article
Author: William Washbaugh
Title: Literature on Categorization
Location/Identifier: http://www.uwm.edu/People/wash/category.htm
Subject: Classification
Keyword: Classical categories; Prototypes; linguistic categories; Anthropology
Description: This essay by William Washbaugh includes two excerpts on classification and categorization from other disciplines. George Lakoff's book sets the stage by underscoring the overarching significance of categorization in human experience. The writings of Genvieve Calame-Griaule and Michel Foucault bear witness-often dramatically - to the diversity of human categorizing practices, and Stephen Asma makes it clear that some of this diversity has played a significant part in the shaping of that Western institution which, more than any other, implements our own cultural practice of categorization, the museum. The first excerpt is from George Lakoff's book, Women, Fire and Other Dangerous Things (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) in which the classical view of categories as things with shared properties is questioned. Other exerpts are as follows: Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaelogy of the Human Sciences; C. Calame Graiule, Words and the Dogon World; Stephen Asma, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums.
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Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Article
Author: Elizabeth R. Lorbeer
Title: Book reviews: Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-winter/review2.html
Subject: Classification
Keyword: Categories; Classification consequences; Bias in classification; Human behaviors related to classification
Description: This is a book review article issued in Science and Technology Librarianship, Winter 2000 issue. Sorting Things Out is a sociological work that explains how individuals sort perceived characteristics into categories and the consequences of those choices. The authors, George C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, describe how the use of classification influences human behavior towards standardizing the physical world using examples from the International Classification of Diseases and other discplinary or pragmatic classification schemes. Classification is described as the systematic categorization of entities into meaningful content. Selecting how the physical world is categorized is a human element dependent upon one's judgment, yet it also allows us to segregate undesirable qualities. The book is recommended for graduate and medical library collections.
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Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Article
Author: Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, and Stuart Weibel
Title: Metadata Principles and Practicalities
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Metadata modularity; Information systems; Metadata schemas; Multilingualism; Syntax and semantics; Interoperability
Description: This is an ejournal article originally published in D-Lib Magazine, 8 (4). Metadata is viewed as a primary tool for work, and an important link in the value chain of knowledge economies. This paper discisses how metadata should be integrated into information systems. Principles and practicalities of metadata are discussed: principles are those concepts judged to be common to all domains of metadata and which might inform the design of any metadata schema or application; practicalities are the rules of thumb, constraints, and infrastructure issues that emerge from bringing theory into practice in the form of useful and sustainable systems.
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Copyright: 2002 Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, and Stuart L. Weibel
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2002-02-00
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers; Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Article
Author: unknown
Title: Mining the Metadata Quarries
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-02/ASISTDecJan.pdf
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Metadata standards; Metadata generation
Description: This is a 31-page pdf file of the Bulletin of ASIST, v. 29, no. 3 (December/January 2003), a special issue on metadata, Guest Editor: Stuart Sutton. There are four (4) articles on metadata: Rebecca Guenther and Sally McCallum, New Metadata Standards for Digital Resources: MODS and METS; Jane Greenberg, Metadata Generation: Processes, Peoples, and Tools; Joseph Tennis, Data Collection for Controlled Vocabulary Interoperability: Dublin Core Audience Element; Jun Wang, A Knowledge Network Constructed by Integrating Classification, Thesaurus and Metadata in a Digital Library.
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Copyright: 2003 American Society for Information Science and Technology
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: 2003-00-00
Date of last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/pdf
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: Knowledge Management Connection
Title: What is Knowledge Management?
Location/Identifier: http://www.kmconnection.com/Knowledge_management_main.htm
Subject: Knowledge Management
Keyword: Classification; Intellectual assets; Information technology; Semantic networks
Description: This essay discusses the different perspectives of knowledge management (KM), and provides five suggestions to understand the term for a variety of loosely related practices, programs, and technologies.
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Copyright: unknown
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: Knowledge Management Connection
Title: Faceted Classification of Information
Location/Identifier: http://www.kmconnection.com/DOC100100.htm
Subject: Classification, Faceted
Keyword: Bibliographic classification
Description: This is an essay with excerpts from classical Library and Information Science texts such as Bohdan Wynar about faceted classification. A faceted classification differs from a traditional one in that it does not assign fixed slots to subjects in sequence, but uses clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive aspects, properties, or characteristics of a class or specific subject. It provides library and information science professionals the foundations of an alternative to traditional classification techniques.
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Copyright: Unknown
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Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: none
Title: Markup Languages and Ontologies
Location/Identifier: http://www.semanticweb.org/knowmarkup.html
Subject: Ontology; Metadata
Keyword: XML; Semantics; Markup language
Description: Short notes on XML and semantics, electronic data interchange and e-commerce, ontologies, ontology editors and ontology interoperability help understand the distinctions between markup languages and ontologies. Introduces the conceptualization of ontology, and explores the publications, research groups and other resources about ontology in the short essay titled "What is ontology?"
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Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: 2003-00-00
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource:
Author: SearchTools.com
Title: Taxonomies, Categorization, Classification, Categories, and Directories for Searching
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.searchtools.com/info/classifiers.html
Subject: Information organization
Keyword: Subject analysis; Subject cataloging Description: This page is a part of the SearchTools.com site; it has definitions and collection of resources. According to this page, the terms taxonomy, ontology, directory, cataloging, categorization and classification are often confused and used interchangeably. These are all ways of organizing information (or things or animals) into categories.
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Copyright: 1998-2004 Avi Rappoport/Search Tools Consulting
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Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: Semantic Research Inc.
Title: Semantic Networks
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.semanticresearch. com/semantic/
Subject: Semantic networks,
Keyword: Knowledge visualization
Description: This site describes semantic networks, which are one form of knowledge structure; semantic networks embody the concepts, relationships, and instances that people carry around in their own heads.
The resource originally developed as an eLearning software application, SemNet has been used by students and educators representing over 44 colleges and universities world-wide and has proven to be one of the most effective visual learning tools available.
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Copyright: 2001-2004 Semantic Research Inc.
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: SemanticWeb
Title: What is ontology?
Location/Identifier:
URL: http://www.semanticweb.org/knowmarkup.html
Subject: Ontology
Keyword: Markup Language; Ontology
Description: This is a part of the XML and Markup Languages pages. Introduces the conceptualization of ontology, and povides links to the publications, research groups and other resources about ontology.
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Copyright: SemanticWeb.org
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-06-19
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Report
Author: Unknown
Title: Inventory of Metadata for Multimedia
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.surfnet.nl/innovatie/surfworks/doc/mmmetadata/
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Standards; Multimedia
Description: An inventory of current standards, emerging standards, and some products serve as examples of current implementations in the area of metadata for standards for multimedia.
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Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2000-12-14
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Article
Author: National Information Standards Organization
Title: Understanding Metadata
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf
Subject: Metadata; Information storage and retrieval systems - Standards
Keyword: DC; TEI; METS; MODS; EAD; LOM
Description: Understanding Metadata presents overviews of metadata conventions. The content includes concept and function of metadata, the structure of metadata, metadata schemes and element sets, creating metadata, interoperability and exchange of metadata.
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Copyright: 2004 National Information Standards Organization
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/pdf
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: Jakob Nielsen
Title: useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.useit.com/ Subject: Web usage; Educational Web sites
Keyword: Web usability; Web design
Description: Jakob Nielsen is the foremost usability expert, and this website is Jakob's writings on Web usability arranged in categories: Alertbox, Reports, Books, News, etc.
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Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

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