INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell INLS 520 Information Organization

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell Class Overview Information card – Assignments >> Surveys >> Personal information Introductions Course Overview What do we mean by organization?

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell Course Overview Syllabus & documents Course overview –Content –Curriculum –Technology –Expectations

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell Class discussion What do you expect to learn from this class? How do you think it will impact/influence your career?

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell So what is organization? Definitions –Google definitionsGoogle definitions Utility –Learning / knowledge / wisdom –Communication –Storage –Retrieval

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell Examples –Disambiguation mbiguation%29 mbiguation%29 What are some non-web examples?

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell Examples – outside the web Indexes (Yellow pages, directories) Menus Information systems, intranets Personal information systems

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell Data to wisdom

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell Information technology

Information Organization INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell Content Context Computer Science Information Science Library Science

Connections Information Organization Systems Analysis Cataloging Information Architecture Application Design INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell What about Libraries? Examples –Cataloging, special collections, circulation, information systems, reference Roles –Are librarians organization “end-users?” –What does information science bring? –How is organization different today than it was 20, 40, 60, 100 years ago?

Context Discipline facet Library Science – Information Science – Computer Science Conceptual facet Representation, surrogation, logic, process analysis Social, political, technical interests Technical facet Processes, DOM, encoding, programming INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell

INLS 520 – Fall 2007 Erik Mitchell Miscellaneous What does Weinberger mean by ‘Miscellaneous?’ What are some examples? What are some influential factors? What are some of the facets of organization?