Some Current Research Questions in the Field of Knowledge Organization

López-Huertas, María

doi:10.5771/0943-7444-2008-2-3-113

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“…The thematic composition and weights of this structure, representing the Uruguayan culture, is different if we consider another culture. While it is true that there may be a significant coincidence in the themes, what varies fairly is the weight that these themes have in the whole of the domain (López-Huertas 2008). The weights are conditioned by societal values, and, for this reason, they are heavily influenced by culture which, in turn, would lead to different citation orders of the concepts in the structure, giving the final result of different knowledge organizations (López-Huertas 2013b).…”

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Domain Analysis for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Domains

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2015

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Domain Analysis for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Domains

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2015

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“…As previous authors had observed (Saumure & Shiri 2008), identifying publications in KO comes with the problem of delimiting the sense of knowledge organization. We manually examined the list of journals obtained from our initial query and selected 31 which published papers on KO in the KO-LIS sense between 1988-2008. This list included the ancestor of the KO journal formerly called "International Classification".…”

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“…In particular, some studies did not make explicit the criteria for data selection, the analysis method for selecting important facts, and how the synthesis of published works was arrived at. With the notable exception of Lopez-Huertas (2008 andSaumure &Shiri (2008), the other authors did not furnish details on the dataset used and how it was gathered.…”

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Information Science in France. Emergence, Evolution and Perspectives

Ibekwe-Sanjuan¹

2012

Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Europe

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As an academic specialty in the French higher education, Information Science was shaped by short-term government policies implemented after world war II until the late nineties. The field was officially recognised in 1974 as part of when an interdisciplinary field named "Information and Communication Science". Information Science was seen by the successive French governments as an instrument with which to gain information independence from the United States. The aim of was to develop information infrastructures (telecommunications, databases, servers), hence to develop an industry rather than a science. This led to narrowing the focus of the field to only one type of information-scientific and technical information. The first higher education curricula and doctoral programs were technologically-oriented, driven by the need to train information professionals rather than scientists. Little attention was paid to research on conceptual models, on theories and on knowledge organisation which used to be the stronghold of European and French pioneers in bibliography and in documentation (Paul Otlet, Suzanne Briet, Georgette and Eric de Grolier among others). Currently, the trend is to bring information science back to its humanistic origins and to engage in a more theoretical and people-oriented research. However, there is yet no coherent agenda that clearly defines what information science research should be about. There is also little visibility of French information science both at the national and international arena.

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“…Knowledge organization systems (KOS) have long been used as a means of information exchange and have functioned as standards in knowledge organization and resource discovery. The diversity of digital practices and the importance of knowledge consistency and reuse within systems in the cross-cultural and multicultural environment has attracted the attention of many authors and is becoming crucial for KOS and their interoperability (Barát 2008;García Gutiérrez 2002;Hudon 1999;López-Huertas 2008, 2016Li Liew 2004). The need for global and local access to information in any language in any culture is an essential aspect of ethics in KO.…”

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Knowledge Organization Systems and cultural interoperability in open humanitarian settings

Tran¹

2018

Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age

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This paper aims to identify the landscape of knowledge organization and representation applications developed in the open humanitarian data movement and consider how the high level of cultural interoperability can improve information exchange, the evaluation of humanitarian needs and the prioritization of humanitarian responses. Firstly, the paper presents reflections on the production, manipulation, and dissemination of open humanitarian data. Secondly, it discusses how knowledge organization meets the growing need to organize emerging forms of digital information. The case of Rohingya, a humanitarian disaster of historic proportion, is used to illustrate multilingual, cross-cultural, and social issues in knowledge organization and representation in humanitarian settings.

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Some Current Research Questions in the Field of Knowledge Organization

Cited by 18 publications

References 42 publications

Domain Analysis for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Domains

Domain Analysis for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Domains

Information Science in France. Emergence, Evolution and Perspectives

Knowledge Organization Systems and cultural interoperability in open humanitarian settings

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