A Labor Theoretic Approach - Human Information Retrieval - page 60

Primitive terms
Selection power
Selection labor
Central proposition
Selection power → Selection labor
Further propositions
Labor includes mental labor
Human mental labor can be transferred to Information technology
Labor separates into Communal labor and Universal labor
Labor separates into Labor, process, and product
Human mental labor separates into Semantic labor and Syntactic labor
Semantic labor → Human labor
Syntactic labor can be transferred to Information Technology
(labor becomes process)
Transformations of selection labor
Selection labor separates into Description labor and Search labor
Description labor separates into Description labor semantic and Description
labor syntactic
Description labor semantic → Human labor
Description labor syntactic can be transferred to Information Technology
(labor becomes process)
Search labor separates into Search labor semantic and Search labor syntactic
Search labor semantic → Human labor
Search labor syntactic can be transferred to Information Technology
(labor becomes process)
Figure 4.1
Summary of synthesis.
the quantity of description labor could increase without reducing search
labor. The analogy of beam or scales remains valuable for giving iconic
form to the idea that labor can be distributed between description and
search.
In its current development, the argument is slightly static, and no
dynamic compels the transformation of relations between categories from
“can be” to “is.”