MCS 2020 Chapter : Chapter Summary6
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Information is everywhere these days and so hard to find, it is estimated that knowledge workers spend at least 20% of their time each day searching. In our attempt to make large bodies of information useable we have invented various strategies for organizing information. Hierarchy system: generally utilize parent-child relationships to structure information. Just like in nature the child part represents a component of the. These systems usually only work for a single person as they are individualized. In computer and information science a developed system and structure for information we can share is called ontology. An ontology is a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all relevant entitles and their relations. Biologists use the linnaean classification system to identify plants and animals and librarians use the dewey decimal system to classify books. The process of categorization can be reduced to two concepts: lumping and splitting.