Ali Alshowaish

 Human nature  Babies  As we grow, we develop more sophisticated cognitive abilities  The need to organize  Why do we organize?  To understand the world around us  We organize because we need to retrieve.

 Examples:  Kitchens  Grocery stores  Libraries  Warehouses  Archives  Give more examples….

 Reorganize the following words:  Understanding  Data  Wisdom  Knowledge  Information

 The explosion of information.  Pre-Internet  Post-Internet  Can you control the floods of information?  Can you find what you need easily and precisely?

# of hitsThe word 1,020,000,000book 1,490,000,000Internet 1,030,000,000YouTube 944,000,000school Try a word of your choice

,417301Growth of Databases 3,674200Producers of Databases 2,454105Vendors of Databases 15 billion52 millionNumber of Records

 Database Types:  66% text oriented (e. g., bibliographic, full text, directories).  17% numbered oriented.  12% image or picture oriented.  30% audio or sound oriented.  2% other

 Information Centers:  Press clippings: 5,000,000  Images:  hardcopy: 1,000,000  digital: 150,000  Microfiche: 7,000,000  Total: 8,000,000

Try this:  Go to Google, choose images search  Choose three different images  Save them in a separate folder, name the folder “images”  Try to search that folder using windows search  If you want to search for the first image, what words would you use?  Did you retrieve anything?

Try this:  Go to the first image.  Right click  Choose properties  Choose summery  Fill in the field

 Search again for Title, author, topics  Did you retrieve anything?  compare the first situation with the second situation.  Tell me what do you think?

 What does “Recorded Information” means?  Recorded information includes more than just text on papers.  Video, audio, images, digital text files (word, web pages), etc…  The broad term that includes all of them is “Information Recourse”

 All information recourses have some basic attributes or properties in common, such as title, creator, type, topic.  These attributes are used to organize information.  These attributes can be referred to as “metadata”  Metadata needs an information retrieval tool.  The tool (i.e. information system) help in determining the value of an information resource without having to view the resource directly.

INFORMATION ORGANIZATION Content Analysis Descriptive Data Metadata

Information System Metadata Storage

 Any Question?  Discussion  Thank you all