ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION SERVICESJournal of Documentation - - 1976
D.J.URQUHART
I had somedifficulty in deciding what title to use for this note. Perhaps I should have called it ‘Economic Science and Information Science’ but I have an old‐fashioned prejudice against using the word ‘science’ for disciplines less rigorous than those of the natural sciences. Moreover, my real purpose is to examine how far we are justified in applying the concepts of economics to decision...... hiện toàn bộ
The super‐metadata framework for managing long‐term access to digital data objectsJournal of Documentation - - 2002
AlisonChilvers
This paper examines the reasons why existing management practices designed to cope with paper‐based data objects appear to be inadequate for managing digital data objects (DDOs). The research described suggests the need for a reassessment of the way we view long‐term access to DDOs. There is a need for a shift in emphasis which embraces the fluid nature of such objects and addresses the mu...... hiện toàn bộ
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LIBRARIES AND THE TEACHER IN TRAININGJournal of Documentation - Tập 3 Số 3 - Trang 147-150 - 1947
M.U.ROBINSON
The English praise books and book‐lovers, and write magnificent prose about the liberty of the Press, but do not always try as much as they might to encourage the foundation of libraries or to foster the care of books. The State has often left libraries to individual initiative or to private benefactors; thus it is not surprising to find that, although as long ago as 1926 the official opin...... hiện toàn bộ
SOME NOTES ON AMERICAN PRACTICE IN DOCUMENTATIONJournal of Documentation - Tập 6 Số 4 - Trang 206-212 - 1950
HERBERTCOBLANS
The newer conception of the library as a documentation centre involves the librarian in communication which in our time has become inseparably linked with reproduction. This is a field in which there have been technical advances, revolutionary in their potentialities but still largely unrealized owing partly to their novelty and partly to the absence of adequate synthesis. The American sce...... hiện toàn bộ
Concept theory and semiotics in knowledge organizationJournal of Documentation - Tập 67 Số 4 - Trang 644-674 - 2011
AlonFriedman, MartinThellefsen
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the basics of semiotic analysis and concept theory that represent two dominant approaches to knowledge representation, and explore how these approaches are fruitful for knowledge organization.Design/metho...... hiện toàn bộ