Informatica : : Mastering Information through the Ages / / Alex Wright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Wright, Alex,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: second edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 30 b&w halftones, 4 other
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to Informatica --; Introduction --; 1. Networks and Hierarchies --; 2. Family Trees and the Tree of Life --; 3. The Ice Age Information Explosion --; 4. The Age of Alphabets --; 5. Illuminating the Dark Age --; 6. A Steam Engine of the Mind --; 7. The Astral Power Station --; 8. The Encyclopedic Revolution --; 9. The Moose That Roared --; 10. The Industrial Library --; 11. Information as “Science” --; 12. The Web That Wasn’t --; 13. Memories of the Future --; Appendixes --; A. John Wilkins’s Universal Categories --; B. Thomas Jefferson’s 1783 Catalog of Books --; C. The Dewey Decimal System --; D. The Universal Decimal Classification --; E. Ranganathan’s Colon Classification --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501768682; 9783110751833; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319124; 9783111318165
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501768682
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alex Wright.