Similar to life, we need to find our purpose, we need to know where we belong.
Information is used for different purposes depending on your assigned task as of the moment. What do you have to know and why? That is the primary question before anything else goes further. However once we reach the point of research and publication we then identify and judge the information we gathered.
Well look at this Gif I placed here, is it even appropriate? I don’t think so. Well similar to classifying information we need to know if it actually belongs to where it is now.
This is where the topic of appropriateness and suitability comes up. Why do we even analyse the content that we have, it’s because we try to identify if it’s useful or not. Now if we see value in our content, we then have to classify it because we have to make sure that the words it brings are suited to the audience of choice.
Classification of Information is Vital
Information can be categorised based on its type, source and provider. Is your information scholarly, professional, entertainment or opinion? Who provided them and who were the sources of information? Well these are the foundational questions to make sure that we know the most out of the content or information we attained. Here’s the thing, without knowing your source, how are you even sure that you’re utilising honest and truthful content.
Categorising can help each and everyone of us access good information faster, it helps us know what’s a more accurate content and what a more honest one is. Perhaps if we don’t classify imagine our books, references and even the internet messed up scattered with unidentified information. Now that surely is terrible and no one wants that. It’ll be more inconvenient for everyone and that can affect the total human outputs we create today.
If we do not categorise, we create a mess and that mess can ruin total human output and positive influence. Just think of this basic thing imagine your bag messy, your mom is going to get mad!
TYPES OF INFORMATION
(Scholarly, Professional, Entertainment/ Popular, Opinion)
PROVIDERS OF INFORMATION
(Academic Institution, Government Agencies, Private Sector, Private Individuals)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
(Primary sources, Secondar Sources, Tertiary Sources)
INFORMATION SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED TO ITS RELEVANT CATEGORY