Vol. 33 (2006) N°3
Knowledge Organization International Journal |
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Devoted to Concept Theory, Classification, Indexing, and Knowledge Representation
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CONTENT Announcement
Articles AbstractOne general principle in the construction of
classification schemes is that of grouping phenomena to be
classified according to their shared origin in evolution or
history (phylogenesis). In general schemes, this idea has
been applied by several classificationists in identifying a series
of integrative levels, each originated from the previous
ones, and using them as the main classes. In special
schemes, common origin is a key principle in many domains:
examples are given from the classification of climates,
of organisms, and of musical instruments. Experience
from these domains, however, suggests that using
common origin alone, as done in cladistic taxonomy, can
produce weird results, like having birds as a subclass of
reptiles; while the most satisfying classifications use a well
balanced mix of common origin and similarity. It is discussed
how this could be applied to the development of a
general classification of phenomena in an emergentist perspective,
and how the resulting classification tree could be
structured. Charles Bennett's notion of logical depth appears
to be a promising conceptual tool for this purpose.
Mela Bosch. Abstract
The recent experiences in the building,
maintenance and reuse of ontologies has shown that the
most efficient approach is the collaborative one. However,
communication between collaborators such as IT professionals,
librarians, web designers and subject matter experts
is difficult and time consuming. This is because there
are different reasoning strategies, different logics and different
kinds of knowledge representation in the applications
of Semantic Web. This article intends to be a reference
scheme. It uses concise and simple explanations that
can be used in common by specialists of different backgrounds
working together in an application of Semantic
Web.
Wang Zhonghong, Abdus Sattar Chaudhry, and Christopher Khoo. AbstractWhile taxonomies are being increasingly
discussed in published and grey literature, the term taxonomy
still seems to be stated quite loosely and obscurely.
This paper aims at explaining and clarifying the concept of
taxonomy in the context of information organization. To
this end, the salient features of taxonomies are identified
and their scope, nature, and role are further elaborated
based on an extensive literature review. In the meantime,
the connection and distinctions between taxonomies and
classification schemes and thesauri are also identified, and
the rationale that taxonomies are chosen as a viable knowledge
organization system used in organization-wide websites
to support browsing and aid navigation is clarified.
Andrei I. Kapterev. AbstractGoverning the professional and intellectual
potential is an interdisciplinary field of scientific research
using a systematic process of developing innovation technologies
for transforming individual knowledge and specialists’
experience in such a way that would apply the
knowledge and experience to the processes, services and
products offered by an organization to reach its strategic
goals. From the technological standpoint, governing the
professional and intellectual potential represents modeling,
forming, using and developing the corporate system of
governing the professional and intellectual potential. We
consider structuring knowledge using this model rather
valuable during the stage of forming the governance system
of professional and intellectual potential. Understanding,
i.e., explicit definition of these factors, would allow for
constant observation of the behavioral trends and for organizing
the activity in a way conducive for influencing the
favorable change of these factors. In addition, the presence
of the critical management factor (CMF) system enables
one to check the significance of any activity (i.e., any processes
within a company) against these factors.
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