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Learning and Teaching Scotland|Everything is Miscellaneous - KB Episode
We have organised our ideas using the same principles by which we organise our laundry. We've had to because the means by which knowledge is communicated and transferred have been physical. This has silently constrained how we order knowledge. Now, however, as information and the information about information are all becoming digital, we are creating new principles of organisation free of the traditional constraints. For example, in the physical world, a book has to go on one spot on a shelf, so we have to choose its primary category. Digitally, the more categories we can file it under, the more useful it will be to readers. Traditionally the institution that owns the knowledge resources also owns the organisation of those resources; digitally, users are coming to expect to be able to organise information the way they want.
[ Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:25:08 GMT ]
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