The Discipline of Organizing: Core Concepts Edition

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.

Ideal as a textbook for undergraduates, the Core Concepts Edition includes new and revised content about the active resources of the “Internet of Things,” and how the field of Information Architecture can be viewed as a subset of the discipline of organizing. You’ll find:

• Stop and Think exercises designed to increase engagement and comprehension
• User-contributed case studies to help you with your own organizing problems
• Nearly 60 new pictures and illustrations
• Links to cross-references and external citations
• Interactive study guides to test on key points

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Foundations for Organizing Systems
Chapter 2. Activities in Organizing Systems
Chapter 3. Resources in Organizing Systems
Chapter 4. Resource Description and Metadata
Chapter 5. Describing Relationships and Structures
Chapter 6. Categorization: Describing Resource Classes and Types
Chapter 7. Classification: Assigning Resources to Categories
Chapter 8. The Forms of Resource Descriptions
Chapter 9. Interactions with Resources
Chapter 10. The Organizing System Roadmap
Chapter 11. Case Studies