The organization of information has a very long history. It appears that as soon as information begins to collect into a large enough amount people will start to organize it to fit their needs. There are examples of this need to organize both in ancient times and current ones. One of the earliest known examples of organizing information is a Sumerian tablet found at Nippur around 2000 BC. By that time, there were a large number of literary compositions inscribed on tablets of all types and shapes in Sumer. This particular tablet however was different because it was a literary catalogue. It listed by title one group of Sumerian literary compositions, 24 of the 62 titles are currently known. The scribe that created the list probably made it to help with the storing and filing of tablets. A second example is when in 1500 BC, the Hittites kingdom which was the greatest and richest power at the time in the region, actually inscribed their tablets with some bibliographic data at the end of a document including number of the tablet in a series, its title, and the name of the scribe. The kingdom produced a great deal of information including entire sets of royal archives, which had to be organized. The inscribed data no doubt helped greatly with the organization of their tablets. A final example from ancient times is when the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal who was very proud of his education established a library in the city of Nineveh. He sent scholars many places to copy tablets to bring them to Nineveh; this resulted in a very large library that needed to be organized. By 650 BC the library was large enough (20,000 tablets) that made a systematic means of order and authenticity necessary. Unfortunately this trend of finding bette... ... middle of paper ... ...rated into the AACR2 in 1978. This allowed the codes to address other materials besides books, to take into account machine processing of bibliographic records (MARC), and to reconcile the British and American texts. Since then the AACR2 has been revised twice, once in 1988 and again in 1998. It is now being replaced with the RDA so that libraries can have comprehensive set of guidelines about description and access covering all types of media; As new formats and technology becomes available, the ways that people organize information will continue to change, but the need to do so will always be there. Therefore, the organization of information not only has very long history it is a something that will continue to happen. Works Cited Taylor, Arlene G, and Daniel N. Joudrey. The Organization of Information. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2009. Print.
Without the Mesopotamians we would not have all the luxury we have today. Could you ever imagine a world without writing? You may think, life would not be so bad without it, but without writing we would not have stories, we could not write to the bank, we could not text. Two major contributions made to society were the first forms of writing known as Cuneiform and Hammurabi’s Code.
Chapter one is an examination of different definitions of ‘information’ to support the concept of ‘informa...
Writing is perhaps the most important building block of communication - after verbal speech, of course. Writing, like most of human civilization, has its roots in ancient Mesopotamia. The first writing systems began in a style known as cuneiform (Cuneiform, 2013). These wedge-shaped markings have their roots in Sumerian culture and were used predominantly for record keeping and accounting. At the archaeological site of Uruk in what is modern day Iraq, a great wealth of knowledge has been gained from the artifacts located there. Uruk was a ceremonial site and is home to the world’s oldest known documented written documents (Price and Feinman, 2013). The documents discovered list quantities of goods that may have been stored at Uruk, leading archaeologists to believe that writing in this part of the world was developed primarily to keep lists of transactions and stockpiled quantities of goods located at the site.
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While the Dewey decimal system contains a comprehensive index, the Library of Congress Classification system does not (Taylor 430). Each volume of the LCC schedules contains its own index and these indexes do not refer to one another. Finding subjects in the schedules can be awkward. To locate a topic, one must check through each volume index of all the different disciplines that may ...
In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gi...
(MacGregor, pg 91) The dimensions of the tablet are 9.4 centimeters in height, 6.8 centimeters in width, and 2.3 centimeters in depth. The tablet is rectangular in shape with carvings on it that you can tell was done by a reed stylus pressed into the soft clay and then the tablet would be baked after it is written on. This piece is one of the early written pieces but it is not poetry or fiction or history which is what we usually call literature because early literature was oral it was spoken you have to memorize the stories that were passed down through the generations. People back then wrote down what they could not learn by heart what they couldn 't make into poetry so it is mainly early writings that we have our after record-keeping and counting or in the case of this particular tablet it is counting the number of beers. Writing has emerged independently in much different of the early cultures such as Mesopotamia,Egypt, China, and Central America all of them have their expanding population and their own type of written language this tablet is from a Mesopotamian point of language. This piece is related to our history of language because this tablet gives us what was originally wrote about it gives us the clues to be able to have an understanding of what was important enough that these people needed to write down. Their
...ed Manuscripts, a Guide to Technical Terms. Malibu, Calif.: Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library, c1994. Print.
Sumerians created writing in 3200 B.C., which at the time, was used for recording and communication. However, from 10,000- 40,000 B.C., cave paintings...
During ancient times, nearly 3300 BCE to 100 CE, many things were being established, for example municipalities and continual cultivation. In Sumaria (in modern Iraq), it was discovered that food, not only allow human beings to stay alive but it has an immense impact on people’s health. This was an introductory concept that influenced the discovery of Vitamins in general. But this notion was probably already known by even earlier medicine experts, at that time called shaman (Jacks, 2007). But in Sumeria and many other regions, this idea was studied in greater detail. Their information was recorded in a writing system called cuneiform, which incorporated different styles of writing; logo syllabic, syllabic and alphabetic scripts (Ancient Scripts, 2012). In 2012, Ancient Scripts stated that this method has been used for the longest period in history. The information was written on clay tablets, called clay tokens, seen in Figure 1.0. There are still some evidence of this type of script but the majority of the exertion on Vitamins cannot be found today (Jacks, 2007). They have been demolished with time or they are still obscured. Furthermore, in Ancient Egypt, certain foods were identified to improve health and recommended to the population. During the 1500 BC, humans already used fruits to treat health problems like scurvy, which was named thousands of years later.
ONIX for Books v 1.0, was first published in 2000, with updates following rapidly. Release 2.0 was published in 2001 and 2.1 in 2003, followed by several revisions. The last new version was Release 3.0, released in April 2009, but after three years of availability, many US publishers had yet to adopt the newest upgrade because while the 2.0 versions of the standard were backwardly compatible with all previous versions, Release 3.0 is not. This compatibility was both blessing and curse; while it meant that publishers could more easily update their practices as new revisions to the standard were released, the improved and increased capabilities of later releases introduced conflicts with earlier versions. Release 3.0 was developed to solve problems that arose with earlier versions of the ONIX standard, but the publishing industry was initi...
... helped the architecture to have accurate measurements . Another civilization that also developed a system of writing was China. The written language could be easily to read and understand, but when they spoke it it was difficult to understand. This civilization had a big advantage with the system of writing because all parts of china everyone could learn the language even if they already spoke a different language. This helped make a great civilization because it unifies a large and diverse land and this helped to control it easier. One disadvantage it has is that the writing system has a lot of things to memorize. So if you were a wealthy kid and went to a good school you could memorize the major part of the language, but if you were in the lower class and went to a cheap school then you had trouble learning the language because they didn’t teach the whole language
Also, they were considered the first people to use a metal plow in farming due to their development of the bronze which they also used in making weapons and tools. But one of their most prize contribution to this world is their invention of writing. From one of the empires of the Mesopotamians, the Sumerians are responsible for the oldest writing system that exist in this world. They called their form of writing as cuneiform which is composed of shape marks that represent syllables (Mark,
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