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).

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. 

Presentations of Authorship in Knowledge Organization

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 486-500
Author(s):  
Carlin Soos ◽  
Gregory H. Leazer
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Personal Networks ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Legal Professional ◽  
The Individual ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Relational Representation

The “author” is a concept central to many publication and documentation practices, often carrying legal, professional, social, and personal importance. Typically viewed as the solitary owner of their creations, a person is held responsible for their work and positioned to receive the praise and criticism that may emerge in its wake. Although the role of the individual within creative production is undeniable, literary (Foucault 1977; Bloom 1997) and knowledge organization (Moulaison et. al. 2014) theorists have challenged the view that the work of one person can-or should-be fully detached from their professional and personal networks. As these relationships often provide important context and reveal the role of community in the creation of new things, their absence from catalog records presents a falsely simplified view of the creative process. Here, we address the consequences of what we call the “author-as-owner” concept and suggest that an “author-as-node” approach, which situates an author within their networks of influence, may allow for more relational representation within knowledge organization systems, a framing that emphasizes rather than erases the messy complexities that affect the production of new objects and ideas.

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.

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.

scholarly journals La notion de tiers-espace et la traduction juridique : quelle articulation ?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarete Flöter-Durr ◽  
Paulina Nowak-Korcz
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
The Third ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Legal Translation ◽  
The Creation

Abstract In recent years, we have noticed in many research areas a growing interest in the translation paradigm. In this article we discuss the theory of “cultural translation”, developed by Homi Bhabha in the context of postcolonial studies, and his concept of “Third Space” (2007). This theory aims to describe the different processes at play in the creation of identity within a space in which several cultures coexist. According to Bhabha, “the Third Space, though unrepresentable in itself, constitutes the discursive conditions of enunciation that ensure that the meaning and symbols of culture have no primordial unity or fixity; even the same signs can be appropriated, translated, rehistorised and read anew”. In this article, we aim to examine to what extent this theory can be applied to translation, especially to legal translation. The concepts of “Third Space” and hybridity developed by Bhabha undoubtedly have a certain appeal for the translator. However, from the methodological point of view other approaches seem to allow for a better understanding of the translation aspects raised by Bhabha in his theory. We therefore provide an interesting analysis of the “Third Space” based on the concept of interval by Cassin (Éloge de la traduction. Compliquer l’universel, Fayard, Paris, 2016), which is defined as a complex zone of interactions and interferences. This analysis is completed by examining the concept of frontiers by Moréteau (Revue internationale de droit comparé 4(61):695–713, 2009. DOI: 10.3406/ridc.2009.19911) which is implicitly present in the concept of interval. In order to analyse the concept of hybridity, the methodological framework of transdifference developed by Srubar (Kultur und Semantik, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2009) can also be used.

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 Liberating Knowledge at the Margins

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Michael Dudley
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender

This paper proposes an LIS research paradigm by which the transactional relationships between knowledge organization systems (KOS) and external scholarly discourses may be identified and examined. It considers subject headings as discursive acts (or Foucauldian “statements”) unto themselves—in terms of their materiality, rarity, exteriority, and accumulation—arising from such discourses, and which, through their usage in library catalogues and databases, produce their own discursive and non-discursive effects. It is argued that, since these statements lead through their existence and discovery (or absence and neglect) to the creation of further texts, then potentially oppressive discursive formations may result where marginalized knowledges are concerned. The paper aims to better understand these processes in scholarly discourses—and the role of libraries therein—by examining recent examples in the LIS literature regarding matters of race and gender, and which are suggestive of this emergent paradigm.

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