2.3. Organizing Resources
Organizing systems arrange their resources according to many different principles. In libraries, museums, businesses, government agencies and other long-lived institutions, organizing principles are typically documented as cataloging rules, information management policies, or other explicit and systematic procedures so that different people can apply them consistently over time. In contrast, the principles for arranging resources in personal or small-scale organizing systems are not usually stated in any formal way and might even be inconsistent or conflicting.
For most types of resources, any number of principles could be used as the basis for their organization depending on the answers to the âwhy?â (§1.3.3), âhow much?â (§1.3.4), and âhow?â (§1.3.6) questions posed in Chapter 1.
A simple principle for organizing resources is collocation â putting them in the ...
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