Doing Things with Information: Beyond Indexing and Abstracting
Brian C. O’Connor, Jodi Kearns, R. L. Anderson · 2008
1. Background Concepts and Models 2. Considerations of Representation 3. Representation, Function, and Utility 4. Failures of Representation: Indeterminacy and Depth 5. Aboutness and User-Generated Descriptors 6. Responses to Indeterminacy 7. Doing Things with Word-Based Documents 8. Functional Applications of Information Measurement 9. Functional Ontology Construction 10. Creek Pebbles: A Summary Metaphor and Touchstone for Exploration References Index