Knowledge Organization Systems and Interfaces of Digital Libraries in China

2006 ◽  
pp. 259-268
Author(s):  
Li Si ◽  
Lixiao Xu ◽  
Hongyan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems

scholarly journals ThManager: An Open Source Tool for Creating and Visualizing SKOS

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Lacasta ◽  
Javier Nogueras-Iso ◽  
Francisco Javier López-Pellicer ◽  
Pedro Rafail Muro-Medrano ◽  
Francisco Javier Zarazaga-Soria
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Open Source Tool ◽  
Knowledge Models ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Interchange Format

Knowledge organization systems denotes formally represented knowledge that is used within the context of digital libraries to improve data sharing and information retrieval. To increase their use, and to reuse them when possible, it is vital to manage them adequately and to provide them in a standard interchange format. Simple knowledge organization systems (SKOS) seem to be the most promising representation for the type of knowledge models used in digital libraries, but there is a lack of tools that are able to properly manage it. This work presents a tool that fills this gap, facilitating their use in different environments and using SKOS as an interchange format.

scholarly journals Community-Driven Knowledge Organization for Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries: The Case of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Sharon Farnel ◽  
Ali Shiri
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
North Western

The Inuvialuit Digital Library (https://inuvialuitdigitallibrary.ca/) was developed as part of the Digital Library North Project, a four-year collaboration to develop a digital library infrastructure to support preservation of and access to cultural resources in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in north western Canada. In this paper, we present the methodologies and approaches used in the development of a culturally appropriate metadata and description framework for the digital library. Specifically, we address soliciting community involvement for building knowledge organization systems, culturally appropriate feedback mechanisms for correcting knowledge organization practices, and deciding who will create the structure and format of knowledge organization systems. Specific practical considerations and decisions on culturally appropriate metadata elements are discussed, in particular such description and design elements as subjects, contributors and roles, language and dialects, geographic names and user interface functionalities.

Ontologies as Knowledge Organization Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-176
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Biagetti
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Query Expansion ◽  
Semantic Interoperability ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Biomedical Ontologies ◽  
Semantic Richness ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Domain Ontologies

This contribution presents the principal features of ontologies, drawing special attention to the comparison between ontologies and the different kinds of know­ledge organization systems (KOS). The focus is on the semantic richness exhibited by ontologies, which allows the creation of a great number of relationships between terms. That establishes ontologies as the most evolved type of KOS. The concepts of “conceptualization” and “formalization” and the key components of ontologies are described and discussed, along with upper and domain ontologies and special typologies, such as bibliographical ontologies and biomedical ontologies. The use of ontologies in the digital libraries environment, where they have replaced thesauri for query expansion in searching, and the role they are playing in the Semantic Web, especially for semantic interoperability, are sketched.

Knowledge Organization Systems in Canadian Digital Library Collections

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Shiri
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Use Of Knowledge ◽  
Library Collections

The paper reports on a study of the ways in which Canadian digital library collections make use of knowledge organization systems to support users’ information search behaviour. The study identified 33 digital collections which have employed some type of knowledge organization system in their search interfaces.Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude sur la manière dont les systèmes d’organisation des connaissances sont utilisés par les collections des bibliothèques numériques canadiennes, afin d’assister le comportement de recherche informationnelle des utilisateurs. Cette étude a identifiée 33 collections numériques qui ont employé certains types de systèmes d’organisation des connaissances dans leurs interfaces de recherche. 

scholarly journals Ontologies in Knowledge Organization

Encyclopedia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-151
Author(s):  
Luís Miguel Oliveira Machado
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Ontological Analysis ◽  
The One

Within the knowledge organization systems (KOS) set, the term “ontology” is paradigmatic of the terminological ambiguity in different typologies. Contributing to this situation is the indiscriminate association of the term “ontology”, both as a specific type of KOS and as a process of categorization, due to the interdisciplinary use of the term with different meanings. We present a systematization of the perspectives of different authors of ontologies, as representational artifacts, seeking to contribute to terminological clarification. Focusing the analysis on the intention, semantics and modulation of ontologies, it was possible to notice two broad perspectives regarding ontologies as artifacts that coexist in the knowledge organization systems spectrum. We have ontologies viewed, on the one hand, as an evolution in terms of complexity of traditional conceptual systems, and on the other hand, as a system that organizes ontological rather than epistemological knowledge. The focus of ontological analysis is the item to model and not the intentions that motivate the construction of the system.

scholarly journals theoretical investigation about the notion of parts and wholes

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Barcellos ALMEIDA ◽  
Renata Abrantes BARACHO
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Theoretical Investigation ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Issue Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

Within the realm of Information Science, information retrieval is a seminal issue. Knowledge organization systems are instruments that organize knowledge by connecting concepts through semantic relations for purposes of information retrieval. One of the most important of these semantic relations is the so-called part-whole relation. In this paper, we revisit some peculiarities of part-whole relations that are often overlooked by the Information Science community. In order to do this, we provide a theoretical investigation of two perspectives used to explain the notion of parts and wholes: a formal perspective, which is based on the philosophical study usually called mereology; a non-formal perspective, which is based on the linguistic study about a relation called meronym. We discuss the relationship between these perspectives through the issue of transitivity, which is an important property of part-whole relations for information retrieval. We find that these perspectives, although distinguished, are somehow complementary. The results of our analysis suggest that the choice for either a formal or a non-formal perspective could be based on a pragmatic criterion in the scope of development of knowledge organization systems. We conclude by offering some considerations correlating two main sorts of these systems, namely ontologies and thesauri.

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