How do you organize music? By genre? Artists? Instruments? Is it a process that can be universalized, or is it personal? 

Organizing music is the fundamental problem that the Music Genome Project attempts to solve. Named after the Human Genome Project, the Music Genome Project is a "sophisticated taxonomy of musical information"; it uses a controlled set of vocabularies to classify music and helps connect people to music they love, including ones they don't know yet.

The main reason we describe resources so we can organize them, refer to them, and interact with them. Burberry, British luxury goods maker, describes resources so it can reverse declining revenue trends and return to earlier levels of growth despite cooling in the lucrative Asian markets. Angela Ahrendts, the company’s CEO, is dedicated to a strategy of innovation and technology integration into Burberry’s sales and marketing model.

Last Saturday, a new California law went into effect that forces Amazon.com and other online retailers to start charging sales tax to all California customers.

Everyone talks about the possibilities of exploiting the goldmine of personal information that Facebook has collected over the years. Many mobile and web apps dig into the pool of their users' information, but Wolfram Alpha's new Facebook Report function, as briefly explained in CNN Tech's article.

The elderly people pass through a stage in life that is considered the last, where the life’s projects are finished, but where it is possible to enjoy this phase in peace. However, considering that many seniors are retired (with decreasing incomes in the best case), the health problems related with age, and the significant aging of all populations, the aging of people raises new challenges to all members of all societies, and of course to families, around the world.

Whether or not readers recognize it as such, they all use some kind of personal organizing system to determine which books they choose to read (in other words, to add a given resource to the collection of books that will be read). The very vastness of the collection of available books makes it essential to do so. Along with metadata such as genre, author, price, and library availability, a common method of developing organizing principles for this system is to use description resources (recommendations from friends, editorial reviews, online user reviews).