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The fundamental interconnectedness of all things: the impact of networked knowledge systems on cataloguing

Simon Bowie
Simon Bowie

The document discusses the fundamental interconnectedness of all things and the impact of networked knowledge systems on cataloguing. It notes that FRBR aims to describe entities and relationships in the bibliographic universe beyond individual items. Network structures are discussed where nodes are equal and democracy and flocks of birds are examples. The importance of network thinking across many domains is highlighted as networks are the fabric of complex systems.

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THE FUNDAMENTAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS #CIG12 CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group OF ALL THINGS : THE IMPACT OF NETWORKED Conference 2012 KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS ON Barron Simon E-resources Co-ordinator Durham University Library CATALOGUING @SimonXIX
Welsh & Batley, Practical cataloguing, p. 172.
FRBR suggests that the library catalogue should do more than enable the location of a particular item. In essence, in creating a 'FRBRized' FRBR describes the catalogue record, we are entities in the describing not only the bibliographic thing we have in our hands, universe, their but its relationship to other relationships and things in the bibliographic attributes. universe - not only to its creator(s) and previous editions, but, theoretically, to any other thing that may be of use to an end user.
The School of Athens by Raphael
Wright, Glut: mastering information through the ages, p. 7. nested groups. system of A hierarchy is a
The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Linnaeuss classification is typical of a taxonomy in that the relationships between living things are depicted by means of a hierarchical structure. This is a structure in which successive steps in division create smaller and more specific classes. It is usually represented visually as a tree structure, with the tree branching at each new level. This sort of structure is probably what is ordinarily thought of as a system of classification. Broughton, Essential classification, p. 13.
The fundamental interconnectedness of all things: the impact of networked knowledge systems on cataloguing
treat knowledge as if it were a unity which can be subdivided into smaller and smaller units. At the top of the tree is the whole universe, which is divided and subdivided to arrive at all the different entities, events and activities represented in the subjects of books. Broughton, Essential classification, p. 32.
Wright, Glut: mastering information through the ages, p. 70.
The fundamental interconnectedness of all things: the impact of networked knowledge systems on cataloguing
The fundamental interconnectedness of all things: the impact of networked knowledge systems on cataloguing
individuals function as autonomous nodes, negotiating their own relationships, forging ties, coalescing into clusters. There is no top in a network; each node is equal and self- directed. Democracy is a kind of network; so is a flock of birds, or the World Wide Web. Wright, Glut: mastering information through the ages, p. 7.
"Our biological existence, social world, economy, and religious traditions tell a compelling story of interrelatedness. As the great Argentinean author Jorge Luis Borges put it, "everything touches everything." Barab叩si, Linked, p. 5.
The fundamental interconnectedness of all things: the impact of networked knowledge systems on cataloguing
The fundamental interconnectedness of all things: the impact of networked knowledge systems on cataloguing
"Consider for example a network crucial for our ability to find scientific information: the citation network. Each scientific paper cites other papers, relevant to the discussed work. A mathematics paper would cite other maths papers focusing on similar problems or occasionally a biology or a physics paper, illustrating the applications of the obtained results. Therefore, all scientific publications are part of a web of science in which nodes are research publications connected by citations. These links are directed. Indeed, following the references at the end of this book will allow you to find the quotes papers. Yet none of these papers could send you to this book, since they do not cite it. The citation network is a very peculiar directed network in which the IN and OUT components reflect the historical ordering of the papers and the central component is very small if it exists at all." Barab叩si, Linked, p. 169.
The fundamental interconnectedness of all things: the impact of networked knowledge systems on cataloguing
Network thinking is poised to invade all domains of human activity and most fields of human inquiry. It is more than another helpful perspective or tool. Networks are by their very nature the fabric of most complex systems, and nodes and links deeply infuse all strategies aimed at approaching our interlocked universe. Barab叩si, Linked, p. 222.
Institutional Repository Search http://irs.mimas.ac.uk/demonstrator/
[Consilience is] a jumping together of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation. Wilson, Consilience, p. 6. The map of the material world, including human mental activity, can be thought a sprinkling of charted terrain separated by blank expanses that are of unknown extent yet accessible to coherent inter- disciplinary research If the consilience world view is correct, the traverse of the gaps will be a Magellanic voyage that eventually encircles the whole of reality. Wilson, Consilience, p. 299.
obviously there is no classification of the universe that is not arbitrary and speculative. The reason is quite simple: we do not know what the universe is. Borges, John Wilkins Analytical Language in The total library: non-fiction 1922-1986, p. 231.
Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F., (B. Massumi, tr.) 1987. A Bibliography thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Adams, D., 1988. Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Honderich, T., ed., 2005. The Oxford companion to Agency. London: Pan Macmillan. philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Barab叩si, A-L., 2003. Linked: how everything is Robinson, L., and Maguire, M., 2010. The rhizome connected to everything else and what it means for and the tree: changing metaphors for information business, science, and everyday life. London: Penguin. organisation. Journal of documentation, 66 (4), pp. 604-613. Borges, J. L., 1942. John Wilkins Analytical Language in Borges, J. L., (E. Weinberg, ed.) 2001. The total library: Tillett, B. B., 2007. FRBR and RDA: resource non-fiction 1922-1986. London: Penguin. description and access in Taylor, A. G., ed., 2007. Understanding FRBR: what it is and how it will affect Bowman, J. H., 2003. Essential cataloguing. London: our retrieval tools. London: Libraries Unlimited. Facet Publishing. Welsh, A., and Batley, S., 2012. Practical cataloguing: Broughton, V., 2004. Essential classification. London: AACR, RDA and MARC 21. London: Facet Publishing. Facet Publishing. Wilson, E. O., 1998. Consilience: the unity of Buchanan, M., 2002. Nexus: small worlds and the knowledge. London: Little, Brown and Company. groundbreaking science of networks. London: W. W. Norton & Company. Wittgenstein, L., 2001. Tractatus logico- philosophicus. Oxon: Routledge. DAlembert, J., 1963. Preliminary discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Wright, A., 2007. Glut: mastering information Company Inc. through the ages. London: Cornell University Press.
Image credits Yet another bean photo by Flickr user kern.justin. remember to thank all the books you havent read over the past three years by Flickr user osiatynska. The School of Athens from Wikimedia Commons. Pear tree branches circles on the fig tree by Flickr user Mammaoca2008. The Fall of Man from Wikimedia Commons. Systema Naturae scan from Wikimedia Commons. Jeffersons library catalog scan from the Massachusetts Historical Society. The Tree of Books by DeviantArt user vladstudio. Alexandria Library by Flickr user Dallas75. Rhizome seed from http://www.a-website.org/mnemosyne/no_signposts/pics/rhisome_seed.gif Several images of networks by Flickr user gephi_org. Web 2.0 Digitage 2012 by Flickr user ocean.flynn. Big bang by Flickr user entonceeees.

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The fundamental interconnectedness of all things: the impact of networked knowledge systems on cataloguing

  • 1. THE FUNDAMENTAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS #CIG12 CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group OF ALL THINGS : THE IMPACT OF NETWORKED Conference 2012 KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS ON Barron Simon E-resources Co-ordinator Durham University Library CATALOGUING @SimonXIX
  • 2. Welsh & Batley, Practical cataloguing, p. 172.
  • 3. FRBR suggests that the library catalogue should do more than enable the location of a particular item. In essence, in creating a 'FRBRized' FRBR describes the catalogue record, we are entities in the describing not only the bibliographic thing we have in our hands, universe, their but its relationship to other relationships and things in the bibliographic attributes. universe - not only to its creator(s) and previous editions, but, theoretically, to any other thing that may be of use to an end user.
  • 4. The School of Athens by Raphael
  • 5. Wright, Glut: mastering information through the ages, p. 7. nested groups. system of A hierarchy is a
  • 6. The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach the Elder
  • 7. Linnaeuss classification is typical of a taxonomy in that the relationships between living things are depicted by means of a hierarchical structure. This is a structure in which successive steps in division create smaller and more specific classes. It is usually represented visually as a tree structure, with the tree branching at each new level. This sort of structure is probably what is ordinarily thought of as a system of classification. Broughton, Essential classification, p. 13.
  • 9. treat knowledge as if it were a unity which can be subdivided into smaller and smaller units. At the top of the tree is the whole universe, which is divided and subdivided to arrive at all the different entities, events and activities represented in the subjects of books. Broughton, Essential classification, p. 32.
  • 10. Wright, Glut: mastering information through the ages, p. 70.
  • 13. individuals function as autonomous nodes, negotiating their own relationships, forging ties, coalescing into clusters. There is no top in a network; each node is equal and self- directed. Democracy is a kind of network; so is a flock of birds, or the World Wide Web. Wright, Glut: mastering information through the ages, p. 7.
  • 14. "Our biological existence, social world, economy, and religious traditions tell a compelling story of interrelatedness. As the great Argentinean author Jorge Luis Borges put it, "everything touches everything." Barab叩si, Linked, p. 5.
  • 17. "Consider for example a network crucial for our ability to find scientific information: the citation network. Each scientific paper cites other papers, relevant to the discussed work. A mathematics paper would cite other maths papers focusing on similar problems or occasionally a biology or a physics paper, illustrating the applications of the obtained results. Therefore, all scientific publications are part of a web of science in which nodes are research publications connected by citations. These links are directed. Indeed, following the references at the end of this book will allow you to find the quotes papers. Yet none of these papers could send you to this book, since they do not cite it. The citation network is a very peculiar directed network in which the IN and OUT components reflect the historical ordering of the papers and the central component is very small if it exists at all." Barab叩si, Linked, p. 169.
  • 19. Network thinking is poised to invade all domains of human activity and most fields of human inquiry. It is more than another helpful perspective or tool. Networks are by their very nature the fabric of most complex systems, and nodes and links deeply infuse all strategies aimed at approaching our interlocked universe. Barab叩si, Linked, p. 222.
  • 21. [Consilience is] a jumping together of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation. Wilson, Consilience, p. 6. The map of the material world, including human mental activity, can be thought a sprinkling of charted terrain separated by blank expanses that are of unknown extent yet accessible to coherent inter- disciplinary research If the consilience world view is correct, the traverse of the gaps will be a Magellanic voyage that eventually encircles the whole of reality. Wilson, Consilience, p. 299.
  • 22. obviously there is no classification of the universe that is not arbitrary and speculative. The reason is quite simple: we do not know what the universe is. Borges, John Wilkins Analytical Language in The total library: non-fiction 1922-1986, p. 231.
  • 23. Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F., (B. Massumi, tr.) 1987. A Bibliography thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Adams, D., 1988. Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Honderich, T., ed., 2005. The Oxford companion to Agency. London: Pan Macmillan. philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Barab叩si, A-L., 2003. Linked: how everything is Robinson, L., and Maguire, M., 2010. The rhizome connected to everything else and what it means for and the tree: changing metaphors for information business, science, and everyday life. London: Penguin. organisation. Journal of documentation, 66 (4), pp. 604-613. Borges, J. L., 1942. John Wilkins Analytical Language in Borges, J. L., (E. Weinberg, ed.) 2001. The total library: Tillett, B. B., 2007. FRBR and RDA: resource non-fiction 1922-1986. London: Penguin. description and access in Taylor, A. G., ed., 2007. Understanding FRBR: what it is and how it will affect Bowman, J. H., 2003. Essential cataloguing. London: our retrieval tools. London: Libraries Unlimited. Facet Publishing. Welsh, A., and Batley, S., 2012. Practical cataloguing: Broughton, V., 2004. Essential classification. London: AACR, RDA and MARC 21. London: Facet Publishing. Facet Publishing. Wilson, E. O., 1998. Consilience: the unity of Buchanan, M., 2002. Nexus: small worlds and the knowledge. London: Little, Brown and Company. groundbreaking science of networks. London: W. W. Norton & Company. Wittgenstein, L., 2001. Tractatus logico- philosophicus. Oxon: Routledge. DAlembert, J., 1963. Preliminary discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Wright, A., 2007. Glut: mastering information Company Inc. through the ages. London: Cornell University Press.
  • 24. Image credits Yet another bean photo by Flickr user kern.justin. remember to thank all the books you havent read over the past three years by Flickr user osiatynska. The School of Athens from Wikimedia Commons. Pear tree branches circles on the fig tree by Flickr user Mammaoca2008. The Fall of Man from Wikimedia Commons. Systema Naturae scan from Wikimedia Commons. Jeffersons library catalog scan from the Massachusetts Historical Society. The Tree of Books by DeviantArt user vladstudio. Alexandria Library by Flickr user Dallas75. Rhizome seed from http://www.a-website.org/mnemosyne/no_signposts/pics/rhisome_seed.gif Several images of networks by Flickr user gephi_org. Web 2.0 Digitage 2012 by Flickr user ocean.flynn. Big bang by Flickr user entonceeees.