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Logic and the Organization of Information closely examines the historical and contemporary methodologies used to catalogue information objects-books, ebooks, journals, articles, web pages, images, emails, podcasts and more-in the digital era.

This book provides an in-depth technical background for digital librarianship, and covers a broad range of theoretical and practical topics including: classification theory, topic annotation, automatic clustering, generalized synonymy and concept indexing, distributed libraries, semantic web ontologies and Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). It also analyzes the challenges facing today´s information architects, and outlines a series of techniques for overcoming them.

Logic and the Organization of Information is intended for practitioners and professionals working at a design level as a reference book for digital librarianship. Advanced-level students, researchers and academics studying information science, library science, digital libraries and computer science will also find this book invaluable.

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Overview.- Some Useful Ideas and Background Theories.- Catalogs, Inventories and Propaedias.- A Logic for Organizing Information.- Classification.- Topic Annotation.- Indexing/Annotation.- Distributed Libraries, Information, and Databases.- Logic and The Organization of Information.- Appendix A: Extended First Order Predicate Calculus.

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