Logic and the Organization of Information

• Main Author: Frické, Martin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Multimedia Information Systems.

Logic and the Organization of Information closely examines the historical and contemporary methodologies used to catalogue information objects—books, ebooks, journals, articles, web pages, images, emails, podcasts and more—in the digital era. This book provides an in-depth technical background for d...

Table of Contents:

• Overview
• Some Useful Ideas and Background Theories
• Catalogs, Inventories and Propaedias
• A Logic for Organizing Information
• Classification
• Topic Annotation
• Indexing/Annotation
• Distributed Libraries, Information, and Databases
• Logic and The Organization of Information
• Appendix A: Extended First Order Predicate Calculus.