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Joseph T. Tennis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Metatheory and Knowledge Organization
NASKO, 2017Co-Authors: Paula Carina De Araújo, José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Joseph T. TennisAbstract:Metatheory is meta-analytic work that comes from sociology and its purpose is the analysis of theory. Metatheory is a common form of scholarship in Knowledge Organization (KO). This paper presents an analysis of five papers that are metatheoretical investigations in KO. The papers were published between 2008 and 2015 in the journal Knowledge Organization. The preliminary findings from this paper are that though the authors do metatheoretical work it is not made explicit by the majority of the authors. Of the four types of metatheoretical work, metatheorizing in order to better understand theory (Mu) is most popular. Further, the external/intellectual approach, which imports analytical lenses from other fields, was applied in four of the five papers. And, the use of metatheory as a method of analysis is closely related to these authors’ concern about epistemological, theoretical and methodological issues in the KO domain. Metatheory, while not always explicitly acKnowledged as a method, is a valuable tool to better understand the foundations, the development of research, and the influence from other domains on KO.
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ASIST - Global/local Knowledge Organization: contexts and questions
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016Co-Authors: Melissa Adler, Joseph T. Tennis, Laura Skouvig, Jens-erik Mai, Ole Olesen-bagneux, Daniel Martínez-Ávila, José Augusto Chaves GuimarãesAbstract:This panel features junior and senior scholars from the United States, Denmark, and Brazil, who will come together to discuss some of the central tensions between local and global Knowledge Organization systems. They will be in conversation around three key questions: 1) What are the contexts in which local and global Knowledge Organization systems matter? 2) What can we learn about the stakes of global/local Knowledge Organization from those contexts? 3) How can we conceptualize the relationship between the universal and the particular? The panelists will provide brief overviews of their perspectives, and the majority of the time will be reserved for an interactive discussion of the epistemological, practical, and ethical dimensions of global and local Knowledge Organization. The contexts addressed will include libraries, archives, and digital, social, and popular media. Within those settings, the panelists are concerned with such issues as access, hegemony, intended and unintended consequences, and meaning construction in particular domains, spaces, and communities.
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Constructs in Knowledge Organization Systems: Rhythm in Time, Intention, and Form
2016Co-Authors: Joseph T. TennisAbstract:In the context of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, we often consider Knowledge Organization systems to comprise catalogues, thesauri, and bibliothecal classification schemes ??? schemes for library arrangement. In recent years we have added ontologies and folksonomies to our sphere of study. In all of these cases it seems we are concerned with improving access to information. We want a good system.And much of the literature from the late 19th into the late 20th century took that as their goal ??? to analyze the world of Knowledge and the structures of representing it as its objects of study; again, with the ethos for creating a good system. In most cases this meant we had to be correct in our assertions about the universe of Knowledge and the relationships that obtain between its constituent parts. As a result much of the literature of Knowledge Organization is prescriptive ??? instructing designers and professionals how to build or use the schemes correctly ??? that is to maximize redundant success in accessing information.In 2005, there was a turn in some of the Knowledge Organization literature. It has been called the descriptive turn. This is in relation to the otherwise prescriptive efforts of researchers in KO. And it is the descriptive turn that makes me think of context, languages, and cultures in Knowledge Organization???the theme of this year???s conference.
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Metaphors of time and installed Knowledge Organization systems: Ouroboros, Architectonics, or Lachesis?
Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013Co-Authors: Joseph T. TennisAbstract:Introduction. This paper presents three metaphors of time present in Knowledge Organization systems. Analysis. These three metaphors the architectonic, ouroboric, and lachesic, can be used as lenses to analyse extant or newly designed Knowledge Organization systems. Conclusion. A foundational view of evaluating and theorizing about Knowledge Organization systems must account for change and time in order for us to take a long view of improving Knowledge Organization and our understanding of Knowledge Organization systems, and these metaphors might be helpful. s
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Ethos and Ideology of Knowledge Organization: Toward Precepts for an Engaged Knowledge Organization
2013Co-Authors: Joseph T. TennisAbstract:This paper provides rationale for considering precepts for an engaged Knowledge Organization based on a Buddhist conception of intentional action. Casting Knowledge Organization work as craft, this paper employs Žižek’s conception of violence in language as a call to action. The paper closes with a listing of precepts for an engaged Knowledge Organization.
Antoine Isaac - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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skos simple Knowledge Organization system
DC-2011 The Hague, 2011Co-Authors: Antoine IsaacAbstract:SKOS is a data model to represent and network Knowledge Organization systems (thesauri, classification systems, etc) in RDF. SKOS is meant to be as easy of use as possible, fitting existing practices while keeping general enough to fit a high number of use cases and KOS configurations. In this tutorial, an introduction to the various features of SKOS will be given, illustrating how they can be used to represent existing KOS data. The tutorial will present how the vision of leveraging existing KOS on the web of data is being adopted in a number of projects, in the Cultural Heritage sector and beyond. Available tooling and methods for creating and publishing SKOS as well as porting legacy KOS data to SKOS will also be discussed.
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skos simple Knowledge Organization system primer
2009Co-Authors: Antoine Isaac, Ed SummersAbstract:SKOS—Simple Knowledge Organization System—provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other similar types of controlled vocabulary. As an application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), SKOS allows concepts to be composed and published on the World Wide Web, linked with data on the Web and integrated into other concept schemes. This document is a user guide for those who would like to represent their concept scheme using SKOS. In basic SKOS, conceptual resources (concepts) are identified with URIs, labeled with strings in one or more natural languages, documented with various types of note, semantically related to each other in informal hierarchies and association networks, and aggregated into concept schemes.
Li Shu-bin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Semantic Web-based Knowledge Organization methods and their application
Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science, 2009Co-Authors: Li Shu-binAbstract:The transformation of Knowledge Organization under semantic Web environment from traditional Knowledge Organization was introduced.The methods of semantic Web-based Knowledge Organization,Knowledge Organization stools and systems,as well as the status quo and prospects of semantic Web-based Knowledge Organization in our country were discussed.
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Rethinking of medical Knowledge Organization and medical Knowledge service
Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science, 2008Co-Authors: Li Shu-binAbstract:In view of lack of semantic relation description in the traditional Knowledge Organization and its impacts on data conversion,information retrieval and Knowledge discorvery,the application perspective of semantic network and semantic Web technology in medical Knowledge Organization is discussed.It is proposed that the trend of the medical Knowledge service in China is to develop a semantic Web-based medical Knowledge Organization system.
Zhu Wei-zhu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Knowledge Organization of Digital Libraries Based on Ontology
Information Sciences, 2006Co-Authors: Zhu Wei-zhuAbstract:With the Knowledge resource becoming more and more abundant,the organizing manner of some traditional Knowledge meets the new difficulties facing its new applications.Now the Knowledge Organization based on Ontology becomes an updated research and application field of digital library Knowledge Organization,and many researches in digital library and computer pay much attention on it.In this paper,the definition,classification of Ontology and the relations between Ontology and subject thesauri and metadata are introduced,and the applications and functions about ontology are expatiated at the digital library,the foundational framework and method of the constructing of Ontology in digital library and utilizing Ontology to realize the Knowledge Organization of digital library are investigated in detailed.
University Of Manchester Sean Bechhofer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference
W3C Recommendation 18 August 2009, 2009Co-Authors: Stfc Rutherford Appleton Laboratory / University Of Oxford Alistair Miles, University Of Manchester Sean BechhoferAbstract:This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), a common data model for sharing and linking Knowledge Organization systems via the Web. Many Knowledge Organization systems, such as thesauri, taxonomies, classification schemes and subject heading systems, share a similar structure, and are used in similar applications. SKOS captures much of this similarity and makes it explicit, to enable data and technology sharing across diverse applications. The SKOS data model provides a standard, low-cost migration path for porting existing Knowledge Organization systems to the Semantic Web. SKOS also provides a lightweight, intuitive language for developing and sharing new Knowledge Organization systems. It may be used on its own, or in combination with formal Knowledge representation languages such as the Web Ontology language (OWL). This document is the normative specification of the Simple Knowledge Organization System. It is intended for readers who are involved in the design and implementation of information systems, and who already have a good understanding of Semantic Web technology, especially RDF and OWL. For an informative guide to using SKOS, see the [SKOS-PRIMER].
