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John tracy elliss american catholics and the intellectual life. This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marksfrom logos to novels to drug formulaeand the exceptions and limitations that define those rights. The intellectual foundation of information organization elaine svenonius mit press cambridge, mass 2000. The first part is an analytic discussion of the intellectual foundation of information organization. Knowledge organization ko, organization of knowledge, organization of information, or information organization is an intellectual discipline concerned with activities such as document description, indexing, and classification that serve to provide systems of representation and order for knowledge and information objects.
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