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We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buckland, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:MIT Press essential knowledge series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Information society.
Documentation > Social aspects.
Communication > Social aspects.
Information science > Sociological aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by David Bawden
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Document and evidence
  • 3. Individual and community
  • 4. Organizing : arrangement and description
  • 5. Naming
  • 6. Metadata
  • 7. Discovery and selection
  • 8. Evaluation of selection methods
  • 9. Summary and reflections
  • Appendix A. Anatomy of selection
  • Appendix B. Retrieval evaluation measures.

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