The Discipline of Organizing

We organize things. We organize information, information about things, and information about information. Organizing is a fundamental skill yet we have limited agreement in how to do it and when it matters. The Discipline of Organizing synthesizes insights from library science, information science, computer science, cognitive science, systems analysis, business, and other disciplines to create an Organizing System for understanding organizing.

The Discipline of Organizing synthesizes insights from library science, information science, computer science, cognitive science, systems analysis, business, and other disciplines to create an Organizing System for understanding organizing. To help us organize information, information about things, and information about information.

This framework is robust and forward-looking, enabling effective sharing of insights and design patterns between disciplines that weren't possible before.

This award-winning and widely adopted text includes content to bridge between the foundations of organizing systems and the new statistical and computational techniques of data science. Because at its core, data science is about how resources are described and organized. It reframes descriptive statistics as organizing techniques, expands the treatment of classification to include computational methods, and incorporates many new examples of data-driven resource selection, organization, maintenance, and personalization.

This edition remains the definitive source for practitioners.