Informatica : : Mastering Information through the Ages / / Alex Wright.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | second edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 30 b&w halftones, 4 other |
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Table of Contents:
- 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