INFORMATION ORGANIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

INFORMATION ORGANIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

Knowledge is comes from information. Through a collecting information process, this information will be used methods to arrange or analyze. This process change information into knowledge. Knowledge achieves via awareness, research, and communication.

Information organization:
Information organization is to identify, describe and provide access to information in all kind of environments, such as, archive, library, museums, office and on the internet. Information is arranged as a logical system. For example, bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, and finding aids, ect.
There is a relationship between information technology (IT) and information organization. IT has promoted the development of information organization. Most of information organization comes from library science such as taxonomy, thesauri.

Knowledge organization
Knowledge organization is about activities such as document description, classification performed in library, database archive, ect. These activities are done by librarians, archivist and subject specialist.
Knowledge organizing processes (KOP) :
- Classification
- Indexing
- Labeling
- Summarizing.
Knowledge organizing system: (KOS):
- Classification system
- Thesauri
- Ontologies
- Any form controlled vocabulary
- Related to information retrieval