Information Management

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Information Management

• LIS 387.8
• 3/1/99
• Martha Richardson

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Organizing InformationClassification

• Dewey Decimal System
• Library of Congress System
• North American Industrial Classification System
  (NAICS)
• Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)

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Organizing InformationClassification

• Provides a framework to
• identify
• store
• retrieve
• deliver information
• Develops a common vocabulary

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Organizing InformationClassification

• Good classification schemes exhibit
• Disjointness
• no object belongs to more than one category
• Completeness
• all objects can be classified

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Organizing InformationIndexing

• Manual
• Information professional
• Automated
• Content mining tools

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Organizing InformationThesauri

• Maps many terms to one preferred term
• Enforces consistency
• Builds hierarchical and associative relationships

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Organizing InformationThesauri
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Dublin Core

• 15-element metadata element set
• Used to facilitate discovery of electronic
  resources
• Developed by librarians, networking and digital
  library research communities, and content
  specialists

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Dublin Core Advantages

• Simplicity
• Semantic interoperability
• International Concensus
• Flexibility

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Metadata Architecture

• World Wide Web Consortium
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)

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Dublin Core Deployment

• Embedded metadata
• used in META tag
• integral to resources
• Third-party metadata
• third-party label bureau
• could be used for acceptability criteria
• View filter
• management by distinct entity
• map many description schemas into a common set

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Dublin Core Elements

• Title
• Creator
• Subject
• Descriptions
• Publisher
• Contributor
• Date
• Type

• Format
• Identifier
• Source
• Language
• Relation
• Coverage
• Rights