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Article: Organizing corporate knowledge: the ever-changing role of cataloging and classification.
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- Information Outlook
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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The Evolution of Cataloging
BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL INFORMATION SEEKER IS AN INFORMATION professional who seamlessly manages corporate knowledge and the information structure necessary for the organization to succeed. Professionals sometimes take for granted the underlying structure for managing that needed information. Information that seekers seem to think they find serendipitously actually has an organized, purposeful structure created by information professionals who use a variety of standards, systems and rules meant to bring order out of chaos. With the explosion of electronic data has come the obvious need to organize it into timely access points. ...