Information organization is the ordering and quality improvement of information, that is, by using certain scientific rules and methods, through the characterization and sequencing of information external characteristics and content characteristics, the transformation from disorderly information to orderly information flow can be realized, so that information sets can be scientifically combined, effective circulation can be realized, and users can effectively obtain and use information. Information organization has the characteristics of clustering, systematicness, dynamics, diversity and comprehensiveness. Its basic contents mainly include:

(1) Information screening: Identifying useful information and eliminating useless information from the disorganized information flow is the first step in the information organization process.

(2) Information analysis: according to a certain logical relationship, the information activity of extracting, mining, sorting out and classifying the internal and external characteristics of the selected information from grammar, semantics and pragmatics.

(3) Information description and disclosure: also known as information resource description, the activity of analyzing, selecting and recording the subject content, formal features and material forms of information resources according to the needs of information organization and retrieval.

(4) Information storage: an information activity that stores the processed and sorted information on a specific carrier in a certain format and order.

(5) Information service: the goal and purpose of information analysis.