IKNS 4302 Week1 Discipline of Organizing ch1

Citation:

• The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition: Chapter 1: Foundations for Organizing Systems – Provides an introduction to and definitions for key terminology in organizing systems including what it means to organize, resources, metadata, collections, and organizing principles.

Robert Glushko is Adjunct Full Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. His book The Discipline of Organizing offers a framework for both theory and practice by integrating information organization and information retrieval, introducing the concept of an organizing system, and explaining key concepts and challenges in its design and deployment.  This is one of the most important books in information management.  Pay special attention to Professor Glushko’s definition of information.  Can things be information?