Abstract: Using the perspective of information and knowledge organization, this paper studies the approaches to organizing life writing resources. It highlights the significance and value of analyzing resource-organization for life writing. It uses the method of information organization to design metadata framework, and builds inter-relationships between biographical resources through classification, thematic analysis and information maps.

Key words：Biography recourses; life writing recourses; organization of knowledge; organization of information; topic maps

Li Fang (1970- ) is Associate Research Librarian at Shanghai Jiaotong University Library. Her research interest is library science. She has published three works and over thirty articles in this area. Her recent work includes Approaches in the Construction of Sources in Disciplinary Information.

PengJia(1979- ) is Librarian at Shanghai Jiaotong University Library. She has co-authored two works and published eight essays in the field of library science.