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Foreword to the First Edition
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Typographic Conventions
Murray Maloney
Abstract
1. The Discipline of Organizing
2. The “Organizing System” Concept
3. The Concept of “Resource”
4. The Concept of “Collection”
5. The Concept of “Intentional Arrangement”
6. The Concept of “Organizing Principle”
7. The Concept of “Agent”
8. The Concept of “Interactions”
9. The Concept of “Interaction Resource”
10. Organizing This Book
11. Introduction (II)
12. What Is Being Organized?
13. Why Is It Being Organized?
14. How Much Is It Being Organized?
15. When Is It Being Organized?
16. How (or by Whom) Is It Organized?
17. Where is it being Organized?
18. Key Points in Chapter Two
19. Introduction (IV)
20. Four Distinctions about Resources
21. Resource Identity
22. Naming Resources
23. Resources over Time
24. Key Points in Chapter Four
25. Introduction (III)
26. Selecting Resources
27. Organizing Resources
28. Designing Resource-based Interactions
29. Maintaining Resources
30. Key Points in Chapter Three
31. Introduction (V)
32. An Overview of Resource Description
33. The Process of Describing Resources
34. Describing Non-text Resources
35. Key Points in Chapter Five
36. Introduction (VI)
37. Describing Relationships: An Overview
38. The Semantic Perspective
39. The Lexical Perspective
40. The Structural Perspective
41. The Architectural Perspective
42. The Implementation Perspective
43. Relationships in Organizing Systems
44. Key Points in Chapter Six
45. Introduction (VII)
46. The What and Why of Categories
47. Principles for Creating Categories
48. Category Design Issues and Implications
49. Implementing Categories
50. Key Points in Chapter Seven
51. Introduction (VIII)
52. Understanding Classification
53. Bibliographic Classification
54. Faceted Classification
55. Classification by Activity Structure
56. Computational Classification
57. Key Points in Chapter Eight
58. Introduction (IX)
59. Structuring Descriptions
60. Writing Descriptions
61. Worlds of Description
62. Key Points in Chapter Nine
63. Introduction (X)
64. Determining Interactions
65. Reorganizing Resources for Interactions
66. Implementing Interactions
67. Evaluating Interactions
68. Key Points in Chapter Ten
69. Introduction (XI)
70. The Organizing System Lifecycle
71. Defining and Scoping the Organizing System Domain
72. Identifying Requirements for an Organizing System
73. Designing and Implementing an Organizing System
74. Operating and Maintaining an Organizing System
75. Key Points in Chapter Eleven
76. A Multi-generational Photo Collection
77. Knowledge Management for a Small Consulting Firm
78. Smarter Farming in Japan
79. Single-Source Textbook Publishing
80. Organizing a Kitchen
81. Earth Orbiting Satellites
82. CalBug and its Search Interface Redesign
83. Weekly Newspaper
84. The CODIS DNA Database
85. Honolulu Rail Transit
86. The Antikythera Mechanism
87. Autonomous Cars
88. IP Addressing in the Global Internet
89. The Art Genome Project
90. Making a Documentary Film
91. The Dabbawalas of Mumbai
92. Managing Information About Data Center Resources
93. Neuroscience Lab
94. A Nonprofit Book Publisher
Afterword
Robert J. Glushko
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Credits and Notices
Robert J. Glushko and Murray Maloney
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Colophon
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