Re-examining Aristotle’s Categories as a Knowledge Organization System

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-297
Author(s):  
Brian Dobreski
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Subject Analysis ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
System P ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Ontological Modeling ◽  
Ontological Model

In his Categories, Aristotle details the kinds of being that exist, along with what can be understood and predicated of existing things. Most notably within this work, Aristotle advances a set of ten, top-level categories that can be used to classify all kinds of being. Even today, the influence of the Categories is felt in many domains, particularly in knowledge organization (KO). Here, Aristotle’s Categories bear deep, long-standing connections with works examining categorization, subject analysis, and theory of classification. Though its relation to ontology might seem obvious, connections to KO perspectives on knowledge organization systems (KOSs) and ontological modeling are curiously lacking. The aim of this work is to offer a re-examination of the Categories as a KOS, particularly through the lens of the KO field’s understandings of ontology. Utilizing Zeng’s classification of KOSs as a theoretical framework, this study draws parallels between the first two sections of the Categories and the defining features of ontologies and offers an initial ontological model of this work. The results of this re-examination stand to offer a new view of a fundamental work in the KO canon, draw further connections between past and present perspectives in KO, and further contribute to the theoretical grounding of contemporary KOS research and practice.

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 Representação em SKOS de um microtesauro de conhecimentos estratégicos nas organizações

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 187-198
Author(s):  
Marilia Winkler de Morais ◽  
Rogério Aparecido Sá Ramalho
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Simple Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
De Se ◽  
Word Wide Web

RESUMO A retórica acerca da necessidade de se explorar ferramentas que contribuam para o crescimento ordenado da Web pelo prisma das transformações que o avanço tecnológico tem causado na sociedade é cada vez mais substancial. Sendo assim, métodos de organização da informação são de expressiva importância para garantir não apenas a recuperação da mesma, mas igualmente promover a transposição das fronteiras culturais e geográficas de acesso à informação. Nesse cenário, ressaltam-se os Sistemas de Organização do Conhecimento (Knowledge Organization Systems) como ferramentas que englobam todos os tipos de esquemas que visam promover a gestão do conhecimento, como esquemas de classificação, cabeçalhos de assunto, tesauros, ontologias, entre outros. Em 2009, a Word Wide Web Consortium apresentou o SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System como um modelo que tem se destacado na padronização de recursos informacionais na Web, pois fornece uma maneira de representar os Sistemas de Organização do Conhecimento tradicionais permitindo que eles sejam legíveis por máquinas. Considerando a crescente tendência de elaboração de tesauros para utilização em ambientes digitais, destacamos o Tesauro Brasileiro de Ciência da Informação, publicado em 2014 pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, como instrumento fundamental para recuperar e acessar informações com precisão. Sem dúvidas, sua transposição para a Web representa ainda mais um avanço para a área de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação. Portanto, o presente trabalho se dedica à avaliação da conversão da categoria “Informação e Conhecimento Estratégicos nas Organizações” do Tesauro Brasileiro de Ciência da Informação em um microtesauro em SKOS. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de cunho teórico e metodológico que se propõe a abordar os temas de representação, organização e disponibilização de vocabulários em ambientes digitais. Caracteriza-se, também, como pesquisa de natureza aplicada e exploratória uma vez que objetiva gerar conhecimentos para aplicação prática. O presente estudo evidenciou que o SKOS se apresenta como uma opção de baixo custo, favorece maior interoperabilidade entre vocabulários a partir da integração de diferentes conjuntos de dados e tem expressiva contribuição para o aperfeiçoamento das tradicionais ferramentas de recuperação da informação.

scholarly journals How Agricultural Digital Innovation Can Benefit from Semantics: The Case of the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Esther Mietzsch ◽  
Daniel Martini ◽  
Kristin Kolshus ◽  
Andrea Turbati ◽  
Imma Subirats
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Structural Basis ◽  
Uniform Resource Identifier ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Areas Of Interest

AGROVOC is the multilingual thesaurus managed and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Its content is available in more than 40 languages and covers all the FAO’s areas of interest. The structural basis is a resource description framework (RDF) and simple knowledge organization system (SKOS). More than 39,000 concepts identified by a uniform resource identifier (URI) and 800,000 terms are related through a hierarchical system and aligned to knowledge organization systems. This paper aims to illustrate the recent developments in the context of AGROVOC and to present use cases where it has contributed to enhancing the interoperability of data shared by different information systems.

scholarly journals Ethically Responsible Knowledge Organization Systems: Towards an Intercultural User Interface

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2(110)) ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Quoc-Tan Tran
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Cultural Inclusiveness

PURPOSE/THESIS: This paper discusses the challenges of creating a theoretic framework within the context of an intercultural and ethically responsible knowledge organization system (KOS). APPROACH/METHODS: First, the paper explores ethical and societal concerns linked to the development of KOS. Second, it illustrates a way to tackle this ethical factor by proposing an applicable architecture for intercultural interfaces which respects cultural diversity on a global scale. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The author emphasizes the importance of opening up the notion of cultural inclusiveness, to weigh not only linguistic diversity but also other cultural and social aspects, such as geography, religious affiliations, tradition, historical elements, ethnic. This kind of approach should be attentive to intersectionality and cultural interoperability. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: By addressing local circumstances, the author offers insights into essential approaches that take into account cultural diversity when designing KOS and access interfaces to knowledge.

scholarly journals An evaluation of enhancing social tagging with a knowledge organization system

2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 447-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Matthews ◽  
Catherine Jones ◽  
Bartłomiej Puzoń ◽  
Jim Moon ◽  
Douglas Tudhope ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Social Tagging ◽  
Control Vocabulary ◽  
Information Discovery ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Subject Indexing

PurposeTraditional subject indexing and classification are considered infeasible in many digital collections. This paper seeks to investigate ways of enhancing social tagging via knowledge organization systems, with a view to improving the quality of tags for increased information discovery and retrieval performance.Design/methodology/approachEnhanced tagging interfaces were developed for exemplar online repositories, and trials were undertaken with author and reader groups to evaluate the effectiveness of tagging augmented with control vocabulary for subject indexing of papers in online repositories.FindingsThe results showed that using a knowledge organisation system to augment tagging does appear to increase the effectiveness of non‐specialist users (that is, without information science training) in subject indexing.Research limitations/implicationsWhile limited by the size and scope of the trials undertaken, these results do point to the usefulness of a mixed approach in supporting the subject indexing of online resources.Originality/valueThe value of this work is as a guide to future developments in the practical support for resource indexing in online repositories.

scholarly journals Devir-rizoma: tumulto na organização e representação do conhecimento | Becoming-rhizome: rampage in the knowledge organization and representation

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo De Sales
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Representation ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Knowledge Representations ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

RESUMO Considerando que os aportes que subsidiam teoricamente os sistemas de organização do conhecimento normalmente se amparam em perspectivas que consolidam visões estruturalistas, a fim de controlar e formalizar representações do conhecimento, ensaiamos neste artigo um possível limiar para organização e representação do conhecimento, baseado nos conceitos de devir e de rizoma definidos pelos filósofos Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari. Tendo como horizonte a ideia de contemporaneidade de Giorgio Agamben, buscamos valorizar a potência dos devires e a intempestividade dos rizomas em prol de uma organização do conhecimento menos previsível e menos determinista. Alicerçado por um exercício de reflexão teórica, concluímos em defesa da realização de rizomas em oposição aos instrumentos já conhecidos e/ou praticados pela organização do conhecimento.Palavras-chave: Organização do Conhecimento; Representação do Conhecimento; Rizoma; Devir; Sistemas de Organização do Conhecimento.ABSTRACT Considering that the theoretical contributions that support knowledge organization systems usually rely on perspectives that consolidate structuralist approaches, to control and formalize knowledge representations, we elaborate in this article a possible opening for a knowledge organization and representation based on the concepts of becoming and rhizome developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Based on the idea of contemporaneity by Giorgio Agamben, we seek to value the power of the becoming and the intempestivity of rhizomes in favor of a less predictable and deterministic knowledge organization. Supported by an exercise of theoretical reflection, we conclude in favor of rhizomes as opposed to systems already known and/or practiced in knowledge organization field.Keywords: Knowledge Organization; Knowledge Representation; Rhizome; Becoming; Knowledge Organization System.

scholarly journals Documentary languages and knowledge organization systems in the context of the semantic web

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilda Lopes Ginez de Lara
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Initial Condition ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Simple Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Conceptual Problems

The aim of this study was to discuss the need for formal documentary languages as a condition for it to function in the Semantic Web. Based on a bibliographic review, Linked Open Data is presented as an initial condition for the operationalization of the Semantic Web, similar to the movement of Linked Open Vocabularies that aimed to promote interoperability among vocabularies. We highlight the Simple Knowledge Organization System format by analyzing its main characteristics and presenting the new standard ISO 25964-1/2:2011/2012 -Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies, that revises previous recommendations, adding requirements for the interoperability and mapping of vocabularies. We discuss conceptual problems in the formalization of vocabularies and the need to invest critically in its operationalization, suggesting alternatives to harness the mapping of vocabularies.

scholarly journals ISO 21526 Conform Metadata Editor for FAIR Unicode SKOS Thesauri

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Stöhr ◽  
Andreas Günther ◽  
Raphael W. Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Validity Check ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
The World ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Metadata Editor ◽  
Resource Description

Metadata repositories are an indispensable component of data integration infrastructures and support semantic interoperability between knowledge organization systems. Standards for metadata representation like the ISO/IEC 11179 as well as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) by the World Wide Web Consortium were published to ensure metadata interoperability, maintainability and sustainability. The FAIR guidelines were composed to explicate those aspects in four principles divided in fifteen sub-principles. The ISO/IEC 21526 standard extends the 11179 standard for the domain of health care and mandates that SKOS be used for certain scenarios. In medical informatics, the composition of health care SKOS classification schemes is often managed by documentalists and data scientists. They use editors, which support them in producing comprehensive and valid metadata. Current metadata editors either do not properly support the SKOS resource annotations, require server applications or make use of additional databases for metadata storage. These characteristics are contrary to the application independency and versatility of raw Unicode SKOS files, e.g. the custom text arrangement, extensibility or copy & paste editing. We provide an application that adds navigation, auto completion and validity check capabilities on top of a regular Unicode text editor.

scholarly journals A Space of Transition: Rethinking Surrogates

NASKO ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hope A. Olson ◽  
Lynne C. Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Current Practice ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
The Third ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
The Creation

The knowledge organization (KO) process of representing something identifiable typically involves creating a surrogate. The surrogate brings together the thing and the knowledge organization system (KOS). Therefore, we decided to focus on the surrogate and its role in the process of representation. In current practice KOS govern the creation of the surrogate. This something being represented is typically, but not necessarily, an information resource. It may also be artistic, tangible, spiritual, etc., knowledge organization systems meant to organize surrogates that represent something identifiable. A knowledge organization professional (KOP) selects what aspects of the thing to include in the representation. The knowledge organization experts/establishment (KOE) are responsible for the development of the context in which surrogates are created. The KOE are key drivers in determining process, and in developing and maintaining standards. Traditional practices are intended to ensure consistency and uniformity of interpretation and application across a range of physical and digital discourses. This context can be considered anew as postcolonial critic Homi Bhabha’s concept of the Third Space (1994).

Pictorial Scales in Research and Practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Sauer ◽  
Jürgen Baumgartner ◽  
Naomi Frei ◽  
Andreas Sonderegger
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Category System ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Abstract. The present article is concerned with the theoretical foundations and practical aspects of developing pictorial scales. It aims to assess the potential of pictorial scales compared to verbal scales. The article provides a review of existing pictorial scales with a view to identifying suitable methodological approaches for developing such scales. The review showed that the development and especially validation of many pictorial scales did not follow a stringent methodological approach. A category system is proposed, which allows the classification of different types of pictorial scales. Finally, we present a first draft of a theoretical framework, which can provide guidance for the future development of pictorial scales. The present work carries the implication that a specific methodological approach is needed, which focuses more strongly on the particular needs of designing pictorial scales (e.g., testing the comprehensibility of pictures).

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