Organizational Structures

From both readings, all of the organizational structures;

Hierarchical - top down overview, larger and smaller portions are rated amongst importance. One large group, with smaller subgroups that cascade in order of significance.

Hypertext - text displayed with references to other text and a wider variety of information. Sometimes can contain tables, images, or other links with further knowledge.

Relational Database model - Database model based on the first piece of information, this describes all the prerequisites that must be satisfied for the next step to take place.

Bottom Up - Taking smaller pieces and brining them together to produce a database or system from smaller pieces, all the way to the top of the diagram.

Top Down - Involves breaking down the database or system in to smaller more manageable categories to look at the inner components individually.

Taxonomies - revolves around classification, and the manner in which it is conducted in. "taxa" are the units involved in the classification.

Site navigation terms and concepts - open/closed, heterogeneous/homogeneous, Sequences, topical, Chunking - should be easy to find and research information on the website, with a clear and concise goal and supporting facts and sources to back up contents of the web page.

Summarization of 3 books

After the completion of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, and Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, it is clear how they all are intertwined and have their own meaning regarding web 2.0, digital technology and culture, and emerging advancements in technology.

The books all discuss how new media and data are organized, and how this information can be utilized in society today. This course so far has really made me think twice about the amount of raw data that exists in the world today, and how crucial it is to be organized into some sort of universal format. Finding and retrieving information efficiently is just as important as the validity of the information, because if you don't know where to look, the information is useless.

Utilization of information is so important especially when converging new and old media, because there is a fine line where you make the mark determining what is useful and what is outdated. There is no way that information retrieving can thrive without some sort of complete overhaul on the organization and management that currently exists. The amount of data out there today is exponentially multiplying, and this world needs to collaborate and work together to create some sort of system that organizes it as well as makes this easy to access.