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The taxobook. Part 1, History, theories, and concepts of knowledge organization /
This is the first volume in a series about creating and maintaining taxonomies and their practical applications, especially in search functions. In Book 1 (The Taxobook: History, Theories, and Concepts of Knowledge Organization), the author introduces the very foundations of classification, starting...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool,
2015.
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| Series: | Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services ; # 35. |
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| Online Access: | Abstract with links to full text |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Origins of knowledge organization theory: early philosophy of knowledge
- 2. Saints and traits: realism and nominalism
- 3. Arranging the flowers, and the birds, and the insects, and everything else: early naturalists and taxonomies
- 4. The age of enlightenment impacts knowledge theory
- 5. 18th-century developments: knowledge theory coming to the foreground
- 6. High resolution: classification sharpens in the 19th and 20th centuries
- 7. Outlining the world and its parts
- 8. Facets: an Indian mathematician and children's toys at Selfridge's
- 8.1 Ranganathan's facets
- 8.2 Ranganathan's classes
- 8.3 A detour: thesauri in verse
- 9. Points of knowledge
- Glossary
- End notes
- Author biography.