From Universal Classification to a Postcoordinated Universe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Rieder
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Classification System ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Stable Map ◽  
The Universe

This chapter starts off from standard takes on knowledge organization and classification in libraries and encyclopedias, but then zeros in on the field of information retrieval, which develops in fundamental opposition to even the most visionary of library techniques. Coordinate indexing, the first technique in this lineage, is explicitly designed to eliminate the influence of librarians and other knowledge mediators by shifting expressive power from the classification system to the query and, by extension, to the information seeker. Order is no longer understood as a stable map to the universe of knowledge but increasingly as the outcome of a dynamic and purpose-driven process of ordering. The chapter closes by discussing coordinate indexing as a precursor of the relational model for database management.

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 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.

Merging Controlled Vocabularies for More Efficient Subject-Based IR Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 254-267
Author(s):  
Ioannis Papadakis ◽  
Konstantinos Kyprianos
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Controlled Vocabulary ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Controlled Vocabularies ◽  
Common Structure ◽  
Simple Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
The World

One of the most important tasks of a librarian is the assignment of appropriate subject(s) to a resource within a library’s collection. The subjects usually belong to a controlled vocabulary that is specifically designed for such a task. The most widely adopted controlled vocabulary across libraries around the world is the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). However, there seems to be a shifting from traditional LCSH to modern thesauri. In this paper, a methodology is proposed, capable of incorporating thesauri into existing LCSH-based Information Retrieval–IR systems. In order to achieve this, a mapping methodology is proposed capable of providing a common structure consisting of terms belonging to LCSH and/or a thesaurus. The structure is modeled as a Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) ontology, which can be employed by appropriate subject-based IR systems. As a proof of concept, the proposed methodology is applied to the DSpace-based University of Piraeus digital library.

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