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We organize things. We organize information, information about things, and information about information. Organizing is a fundamental issue in many professional fields, but these fields have only limited agreement in how they approach problems of organizing and in what they seek as their solutions.
The Discipline of Organizing synthesizes insights from library science, information science, computer science, cognitive science, systems analysis, business, and other disciplines to create an Organizing System for understanding organizing. This framework is robust and forward-looking, enabling effective sharing of insights and design patterns between disciplines that weren't possible before.
The 4th edition of this award-winning and widely adopted text adds content to bridge between the foundations of organizing systems and the new statistical and computational techniques of data science because at its core, data science is about how resources are described and organized. The 4th edition reframes descriptive statistics as organizing techniques, expands the treatment of classification to include computational methods, and incorporates many new examples of data-driven resource selection, organization, maintenance, and personalization.
The Professional edition remains the definitive source for advanced students and practitioners who require comprehensive and pinpoint connections to the classic and contemporary literature about organizing. Dozens of new citations and endnotes for the new data science material bring to 12 the number of distinct disciplinary perspectives identified in the book.
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Table of contents
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Abstract
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1. Foundations for Organizing Systems
- 1.1. The Discipline of Organizing
- 1.2. The “Organizing System” Concept
- 1.3. The Concept of “Resource”
- 1.4. The Concept of “Collection”
- 1.5. The Concept of “Intentional Arrangement”
- 1.6. The Concept of “Organizing Principle”
- 1.7. The Concept of “Agent”
- 1.8. The Concept of “Interactions”
- 1.9. The Concept of “Interaction Resource”
- 1.10. Organizing This Book
- 2. Design Decisions in Organizing Systems
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3. Activities in Organizing Systems
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Selecting Resources
- 3.3. Organizing Resources
- 3.4. Designing Resource-based Interactions
- 3.5. Maintaining Resources
- 3.6. Key Points in Chapter Three
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4. Resources in Organizing Systems
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Four Distinctions about Resources
- 4.3. Resource Identity
- 4.4. Naming Resources
- 4.5. Resources over Time
- 4.6. Key Points in Chapter Four
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5. Resource Description and Metadata
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. An Overview of Resource Description
- 5.3. The Process of Describing Resources
- 5.4. Describing Non-text Resources
- 5.5. Key Points in Chapter Five
- 6. Describing Relationships and Structures
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7. Categorization: Describing Resource Classes and Types
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. The What and Why of Categories
- 7.3. Principles for Creating Categories
- 7.4. Category Design Issues and Implications
- 7.5. Implementing Categories
- 7.6. Key Points in Chapter Seven
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8. Classification: Assigning Resources to Categories
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Understanding Classification
- 8.3. Bibliographic Classification
- 8.4. Faceted Classification
- 8.5. Classification by Activity Structure
- 8.6. Computational Classification
- 8.7. Key Points in Chapter Eight
- 9. The Forms of Resource Descriptions
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10. Interactions with Resources
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Determining Interactions
- 10.3. Reorganizing Resources for Interactions
- 10.4. Implementing Interactions
- 10.5. Evaluating Interactions
- 10.6. Key Points in Chapter Ten
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11. The Organizing System Roadmap
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. The Organizing System Lifecycle
- 11.3. Defining and Scoping the Organizing System Domain
- 11.4. Identifying Requirements for an Organizing System
- 11.5. Designing and Implementing an Organizing System
- 11.6. Operating and Maintaining an Organizing System
- 11.7. Key Points in Chapter Eleven
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12. Case Studies
- 12.1. A Multi-generational Photo Collection
- 12.2. Knowledge Management for a Small Consulting Firm
- 12.3. Smarter Farming in Japan
- 12.4. Single-Source Textbook Publishing
- 12.5. Organizing a Kitchen
- 12.6. Earth Orbiting Satellites
- 12.7. CalBug and its Search Interface Redesign
- 12.8. Weekly Newspaper
- 12.9. The CODIS DNA Database
- 12.10. Honolulu Rail Transit
- 12.11. The Antikythera Mechanism
- 12.12. Autonomous Cars
- 12.13. IP Addressing in the Global Internet
- 12.14. The Art Genome Project
- 12.15. Making a Documentary Film
- 12.16. The Dabbawalas of Mumbai
- 12.17. Managing Information About Data Center Resources
- 12.18. Neuroscience Lab
- 12.19. A Nonprofit Book Publisher
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition, 4th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2016
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491970614
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