[rclis] Re: NewsAgent Classification Scheme

[Thomas Krichel]

  Jose Manuel Barrueco Cruz writes

> 	The JITA draft version is already available at the url:
> 
> 	http://rclis.org/internal/jita.txt
> 
> 	Comments are welcome. Cheers,

  I have preserved this version at 

	http://rclis.org/internal/jita_2002-10-29.txt

  and made some changes, inspired by the following comentts



| A. Information theory 
| 
|    Definition of information. Information science as a field.  Related
|    disciplines. Library science. Communication
|    science/theory. Cognitive Science.
| 

  I agree with the essence, but propose a slight rewrite

| 
| B. Information use and sociology of information
| 
|    Use and impact of information. User interfaces,
|    usability. Information needs and information requirements
|    analysis. Information in society. Information transfer,
|    dissemination, diffusion. Information society. Information
|    Economics. Information Market. Information Policy.

  I would leave information transfer out of here and put it 
  in the next section. Information market is covered by
  Information Economics 

| 
| C. Information services and information treatement
|    
|    Types, design and evaluation of information systems and
|    services. Information functions and techniques. Knowledge
|    representation. Hypertext, Hypermedia, XML. Data structure. Content
|    analysis (indexing/abstracting). Cataloguing. Intellectual Content
|    analysis. Searching, filtering. Information presentation. Automated
|    language processing. Technical services (circulation, acquisitions,
|    withdrawals, stocktaking, preservation, document delivery,
|    interlibrary loans). Reference work, bibliographic control.

  I would shorten this to information treatment. Clearly such 
  treatment is done to provide a service, but the service should 
  not be the issue here, but instead it is the way that teh 
  service is provided for.  I am not sure what information 
  function and techniques are, left out.  Remove searching. 
  Moved technical services to the libraires as physcial
  collectinos.

  I think this section could do with a more logical ordering
  of the keywords, but I have not done that. 

| 
| D. Information technology and library technology
| 
|    Computer industry, Networking, Software, Telecomms, ISDN, Internet,
|    WWW. Computer technology. Software engineering. OPAC's. Computers,
|    Software, Networks, Photocopiers, Automation systems,
|    Authentication, Access control.

  The industries are like professions and should be in the 
  next part.


| 
| E. Profession and education
| 
|    Organisations, Biographies, Education, Training, Staff. Curricular
|    aspects

  added the computer industry 

| 
| F. Libraries and buildings
| 
|    Resource centres, World Libraries, National
|    Libraries, State Libraries, Public Libraries, Academic Libraries,
|    School Libraries, Government Libraries, Private Libraries, Business
|    Libraries, Science Libraries, Museums, Health Libraries, Medical
|    Libraries. Library buildings, Planning, Design, Removal, Furniture,
|    Vehicles, Safety, Disaster planning.


  Emphasis here on phyiscal collection 

| 
| G. Users, literacy and reading
| 
|    Use studies, user studies, children, young people, social groups,
|    user training, promotion, activities, education. Literacy. Reading.
| 
| H. Information sources
| 
|    Periodicals, newspapers, grey literature, print materials,
|    non-print materials, audio-visual, electronic media, microforms,
|    bibliometrics, cd-rom, online hosts, databases, serials management,
|    Web pages.

  I am not sure what bibliometrics has to do there. 

| 
| I. Information retrieval
| 
|    Costs, intelligent agents, search engines, multimedia, online,
|    image systems. automatic text retrieval. Index languages, processes
|    and schemes. Data base management systems.  Object-oriented DBMS.

  I would make an empahsis here on machine processing of information,
  otherwise there seems to be an overlap with C. and with D.

| 
| J. Records management
| 
|    Archives
| 

  I put archives and presevration, and set record mangagement as a
  second term 


| K. Publishing and legal issues
|    
|    mass media, copyright, bookselling, printing, electronic
|    publishing, broadcasting, censorship.

  This section overlaps with B. I have not merged it, but this
  may be something that we want to do.


| 
| L. Management
| 
|    Co-operation, marketing, finance, public relations, personnel
|    management, funding, local government, reorganisation, unitary
|    authorities
| 



  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                                   mailto:krichel@openlib.org
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