Glushko - Doo- Chapter 2 Quiz

Front 1

Which activities are common to all organizing systems?

Back 1

Selection, organizing, interaction design, and maintenance activities occur in every organizing system

Front 2

Are selection, organizing, interaction design, and maintenance the same activities in every organizing systems?

Back 2

These activities are not identical in every domain, but the general terms enable communication and learning about domain-specific methods and vocabularies.

Front 3

What is the first decision to be made when creating an organizing system?

Back 3

The most fundamental decision for an organizing system is determining its resource domain, the group or type of resources that are being organized

Front 4

Does making selection principles clear and consistent ensure that they are good ones?

Back 4

Even when the selection principles behind a collection are clear and consistent, they can be unconventional, idiosyncratic, or otherwise biased

Front 5

What is accessioning?

Back 5

Adding a resource to a library collection is called acquisition, but adding to a museum collection is called accessioning

Front 6

What is a resource property?

Back 6

In this book we use “property” in a generic and ordinary sense as a synonym for “feature” or “characteristic.”

Many cognitive and computer scientists are more precise in defining these terms and reserve “property” for binary predicates (e.g., something is red or not, round or not, and so on). If multiple values are possible, the “property” is called an “attribute,” “dimension,” or “variable.”

Front 7

What is the relationship between resource properties and organizing principles?

Back 7

Most organizing systems use principles that are based on specific resource properties or properties derived from the collection as a whole.

Front 8

What problems can arise when arranging physical resources?

Back 8

Some arrangements of physical resources are constrained or precluded by resource properties that might cause problems for other resources or for their users.

Front 9

What is materiality?

Back 9

An emerging issue in the field of digital humanities is the requirement to recognize the materiality of the environment that enables people to create and interact with digital resources.

Front 10

What factors affect the organization of resources?

Back 10

Multiple properties of the resources,

the person organizing or intending to use them, and the social and technological environment in which they are being organized can collectively shape their organization.

Front 11

What is the fundamental tradeoff faced when organizing physical resources?

Back 11

The tradeoff between the amount of work that goes into organizing a collection of resources and the amount of work required to find and use them is inescapable when the resources are physical objects or information resources are in physical form

Front 12

What are affordance and capability?

Back 12

(introduced by J. J. Gibson and then extended and popularized by Donald Norman)

The concept of affordance, captures the idea that physical resources and their environments have inherent actionable properties that determine, in conjunction with an actor's capabilities and cognition, what can be done with the resource

Front 13

Does supporting more interactions mean that an organizing system has more capability?

Back 13

No.

We should not assume that supporting more types of interactions necessarily makes a system better or more capable; what matters is how much value is created or invoked in each interaction

Front 14

What is the basis of value creation when interacting with a digital resource?

Back 14

With digital resources, the essence of the interaction is information exchange or symbolic manipulation of the information contained in the resource.

Front 15

What factors improve the usability of digital resources?

Back 15

The variety and functions of interactions with digital resources are determined by the amount of structure and semantics represented in their digital encoding, in the descriptions associated with the resources, or by the intelligence of the computational processes applied to them

Front 16

What is preservation?

Back 16

Preservation of resources means maintaining them in conditions that protect them from physical damage or deterioration

Front 17

What is the relationship between digitization and preservation?

Back 17

Preservation is often a key motive for digitization, but digitization alone is not preservation

Front 18

Is preservation an important goal for search engines?

Back 18

Comprehensive web search engines use crawlers to continually update their indexed collections of web pages and their search results link to the current version, so preservation of older versions is explicitly not a goal

Front 19

What are curation and governance?

Back 19

The essence of curation and governance is having clear policies for collecting resources and maintaining them over time that enable people and automated processes to ensure that resource descriptions or data are authoritative, accurate, complete, consistent, and non-redundant.

Front 20

What seminal article has influenced the field of Personal Information Management for decades?

Back 20

Personal Information Management has been influenced for decades by a seminal article written by Vannevar Bush titled “As We May Think”.

Front 21

What is the role of governance in business organizing systems?

Back 21

Governance is essential to deal with the frequent changes in business organizing systems and the associated activities of data quality management, access control to ensure security and privacy, compliance, deletion, and archiving

Front 22

How is governance different in scientific organizing systems?

Back 22

Scientific data poses special governance problems because of its enormous scale