Week 1 Flashcards
Organization enables…
Usage & Reuse
An intentionally arranged collection of resources and the interactions they support is a…
Organizing system
The DIKW hierarchy stands for…
Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom
The questions for designing or assessing an organisation system are…
1) What is being organized? 2) Why is it being organized? 3) How much is it being organized? 4) When is it being organized? 5) How or by whom is it being organized?
What do we organize?
Things, information, information about things
A quality of an object, or an environment, which allows an individual to perform an action is an…
Affordance
Different objects enable different…
organization paradigms
Affordances allow for clear connections in the physical space, but not so much in the…
information space
We organize because…
we want to bring things together (collection); we want to achieve a task (customer management, science, etc.); to preserve information; to support task performance; to support automation; to achieve broader insititutional goals.
An organization maintaining a repository of public knowledge is a…
Memory institution
Examples of a memory institution are…
libraries, archives, heritage (monuments & sites) institutions, aquaria and arboreta, and zoological and botanical gardens, as well as providers of digital libraries and data aggregation services which serve as memories for given societies or mankind.
The activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve, and use personal information items such as documents (paper-based and digital), web pages, and email messages are collectively called…
Personal information management (PIM)
Examples of entities doing the organization are…
professionals, creators themselves, computers, crowdsourcing, non-creator users (community), a combination of those.
We can contrast the organization imposed on resources as…
on the way in (when the resources are created or made part of the collection) / on the way out (when the organization is imposed when an interaction with resources occurs)
An organization that spontaneously emerges from and exists in a complex dynamic environment or market place, rather than being a construct or copy of something that already exists is called…
Emergent organization
Systems for information organization, traditionally from the memory institutions, that try to provide semantics and specify relationships between symbols and concepts to help with disambiguation, grouping and usage are called…
Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS)