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Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants
Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants
Bibliographical Foundations of Information Science
ISBN: 9780262547598
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
An expansive case for bibliography as infrastructure in information science.
Paper Machines
About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
ISBN: 9780262550857
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Power of Position
Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences
ISBN: 9780262045278
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies.
Classification in the Wild
The Science and Art of Transparent Decision Making
ISBN: 9780262045155
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
Rules for building formal models that use fast-and-frugal heuristics, extending the psychological study of classification to the real world of uncertainty.
Information and Intrigue
From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
ISBN: 9780262027021
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2014
An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology.
Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants
Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants
Bibliographical Foundations of Information Science
ISBN: 9780262547598
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
An expansive case for bibliography as infrastructure in information science.
Paper Machines
About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
ISBN: 9780262550857
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Power of Position
Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences
ISBN: 9780262045278
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies.
Classification in the Wild
The Science and Art of Transparent Decision Making
ISBN: 9780262045155
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
Rules for building formal models that use fast-and-frugal heuristics, extending the psychological study of classification to the real world of uncertainty.
Information and Intrigue
From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
ISBN: 9780262027021
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2014
An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology.