The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition, 4th Edition

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4.6. Key Points in Chapter Four

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What is the relationship between a resource and a category?

We can consider a resource to be one of many members of a very broad category, as the unique instance of a category with only one member, or anywhere in between.

(See §4.1.1, “What Is a Resource?”)

What factors affect the size of a category?

The size of the category—the number of resources that are treated as equivalent—is determined by the properties or characteristics we consider when we examine the resource.

(See §4.1.1, “What Is a Resource?”)

What is metadata?

Organizing systems for physical information resources emphasize description resources or surrogates like bibliographic records that describe the information content rather than their physical properties.

(See §4.1.1.2, “Bibliographic Resources, Information Components, and “Smart Things” as Resources”)

What is an identifier and what design goals must it satisfy?

An identifier is a special kind of name assigned in a controlled manner and governed by rules that define possible values and naming conventions. The design of a scheme for persistent identifiers must consider both the required time frame and the number of resources to be identified.

(See §4.1.2, “Identity, Identifiers, and Names”)

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