Ali Alshowaish. Human nature Babies As we grow, we develop more sophisticated cognitive abilities The need to organize Why do we organize?

Ali Alshowaish

Human nature Babies As we grow, we develop more sophisticated cognitive

abilities The need to organize Why do we organize? To understand the world around us We organize because we need to retrieve.

Examples: Kitchens Grocery stores Libraries Warehouses Archives Give more examples….

Reorganize the following words: Understanding Data Wisdom Knowledge Information

The explosion of information. Pre-Internet Post-Internet

Can you control the floods of information? Can you find what you need easily and precisely?

The word # of hits

book 1,020,000,000

Internet 1,490,000,000

YouTube 1,030,000,000

school 944,000,000

Try a word of your choice

1975 2001

Growth of Databases 301 12,417

Producers of Databases

200 3,674

Vendors of Databases

105 2,454

Number of Records 52 million 15 billion

Database Types: 66% text oriented (e. g., bibliographic, full text,

directories). 17% numbered oriented. 12% image or picture oriented. 30% audio or sound oriented. 2% other

Information Centers: Press clippings: 5,000,000 Images:

hardcopy: 1,000,000 digital: 150,000 Microfiche: 7,000,000 Total: 8,000,000

Try this: Go to Google, choose images search Choose three different images Save them in a separate folder, name the folder “images” Try to search that folder using windows search If you want to search for the first image, what words

would you use? Did you retrieve anything?

Try this: Go to the first image. Right click Choose properties Choose summery Fill in the field

Search again for Title, author, topics Did you retrieve anything? compare the first situation with the second

situation. Tell me what do you think?

What does “Recorded Information” means? Recorded information includes more than just

text on papers. Video, audio, images, digital text files (word,

web pages), etc… The broad term that includes all of them is

“Information Recourse”

All information recourses have some basic attributes or properties in common, such as title, creator, type, topic.

These attributes are used to organize information. These attributes can be referred to as “metadata” Metadata needs an information retrieval tool. The tool (i.e. information system) help in

determining the value of an information resource without having to view the resource directly.

INFORMATION ORGANIZATION

Content AnalysisDescriptive Data

Metadata

Information System

Metadata

Storage

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