00000nam 2200000 4500 11249/MKRI-P/XII-2008 INLIS000000000003238 20221010022234 0010-0520003238 221010################|##########|#eng## 0-262-19433-3 eng 025.3 025.3 SVE i Svenonius, Elaine Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization / Elaine Svenonius London : The MIT Press, 2000 xv, 255 p. ; 23 cm. Indeks : p. 245-255 p. 223-243 I feel a little sheepish admitting being excited by a book for which "the relevant historical background is the tradition of Anglo-American descriptive and subject cataloging during the last century and a half." It has often been argued that those building digital libraries should take advantage of the experience of the traditional library community in organizing information. But finding ways to convey that experience has proved difficult. Elaine Svenonius intended that This book reach across disciplinary boundaries and inform the broader practice of information organization. To judge by my reaction to the book and the reactions of others she know, she has succeeded. Her analysis resonates with the experiences of those who have been faced with reconciling intellectual and descriptive metadata from different sources, developing guidelines for description in digital libraries, or trying to build systems that do a better job of supporting the information-seeking tasks of users. Information Organization Bibliography-Methodology 11249/MKRI-P/XII-2008