A new paradigm in the organization of knowledge

Knowledge Organization is a discipline that has its origin in the library field and was extended by new documentation and information tasks. Thought it claimes to encompass all kinds and aspects of knowledge storage and retrieval it is bound more or less to the idea to express the structure of knowledge which is behind a scientific collection of objects and their descriptions. Its aim is to facilitate the exchange between scientists and their knowledge. Knowledge Management instead deals with the elicitation, processing and diffusion of economically important information. Knowlege gets here the main notion of competitive intelligence for a limited target and community. Knowledge Engineering is the technique of making cognitive units and links machine readable and processable. It achieves its advantage over human interaction and understanding with the growth of the data bases and the speed of numerical based decisions. Though rather surprising information mining might be possible by Knowledge Engineering a qualitative or ethical inference remains nearly unsolved. If one contrasts Knowledge Organization, Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering to each other these knowledge disciplines get a clearer shape and their special claims, contributions and limitations have to be taken into account. On the other hand it becomes obvious that facing the typical problems and solutions of all knowledge disciplines will result in better outcome in each. Thus practical solutions will always have to take into account these three aspects of knowledge and even more.

2013

years ago knowledge organization, the develop- ment of scientific concepts and arrangements, has been seen as a logical and thus universal problem. Older approaches accordingly see areas of knowledge as naturally given and organically grown. At latest with the constructivism has entered a 'turn', which sees knowledge organization as a social con- vention and accordingly regards universal standards skeptical. Simultaneously in the sciences came up a stronger concern with historical and sociological stud- ies of its foundations and in philosophy of science the return to different kinds of relativizations has gained more importance. In this paper, some single classical sociological positions are discussed, conclusions are drawn for knowledge and information as well as for science and knowledge organization and objections are designated.

NASKO, 2013

In order to highlight the contributions of Kaiser´s systematic indexing to the theoretical and methodological landscape of Knowledge Organization, this study presents Kaiser as a pioneer of the analytical-synthetic method and, as a consequence, as a starting point of Ranganathan´s faceted theory. In this sense, Kaiser´s indexing principles are analyzed in relation to his oeuvres as well as his theoretical convergences with Otlet, Ranganathan, Hulme and Cutter. The methodological approach is based on William James´ pragmatism which combines the observation of Kaiser´s oeuvres and the identification of his methodological procedures options and propositions that allow us to confirm Kaiser as the pioneer of the analytical-synthetic method in LIS.

2008

The idea of organizing knowledge and the determinism in classifícation structures implicitly involve certain limits which are translated into a General Theory on the Classifícation of Knowledge, given that classifícation responds to specific parameters and structures more ...

2017

Objectives: Epistemology is the discipline that addresses the fundamentals, criteria, and validation through which knowledge is justified, nuclear discipline in the construction of scientific knowledge, it is a metadiscourse that ascribes itself to order and analyzes science. Epistemology is born in European modernity, as a construction of the symbolic order, which will establish the ways to legitimize knowledge and as a strategic need to control it. In the history of science, culture and in every age, there is always an order that underlies and regulates knowledge (a mute order). This mute order is what enables and conforms the constitution of knowledge, and knowledge in each moment. Thus, scientific knowledge has gone through different stages and has not always been built on the same epistemes, but has been subject to constant epistemological changes. It is necessary, therefore, to analyze the experience of order from the experiences that exist in every culture. We think, know and...

2006

Science (LIS). Whether this is justified is of course arguable, but it is without doubt a subfield in LIS with a strong scholarly tradition, high demands and high ambitions when it comes to theoretical development. At the same time it is firmly rooted in practical librarianship and equivalent professions and practices within so-called memory institutions such as museums and archives.

Milwaukee. He brings empirical epistemology to the problems of the order and structure of recorded knowledge, and he is an expert in the phenomenon of instantiation among information objects. He can be reached by email at smiragli<at>uwm.edu. Charles van den Heuvel is head of research on the history of science and theme leader, "Circulation of Knowledge," at the Huygens Institute in The Hague (Netherlands). He is an historian of art and science, including information science and an expert in the life and works of Paul Otlet. He can be reached by email at charles.van.den.heuvel<at>huygensinstituut.knaw.nl.

In this paper, we propose that knowledge can be initially designed like any scientific object such a rudimentary automobile, airplane or spacecraft. The premise is based on the theme that a specific body of knowledge rests on the embedded noun objects and the structural relation between these keygroups of knowledge centric objects (KCOs). The events, interactions and forces in the society alter such KCOs and their structural relationships. The design of knowledge deploys a very pragmatic approach that knowledge based on these key objects, their interrelationships, and their interactions can be processed by knowledge machines. Knowledge thus undergoes dynamic changes in the society, the minds of human beings and in the knowledge structures stored in the memories and knowledge banks. Structures of knowledge can be altered in the KPUs of knowledge machines much like data structures are altered in the CPU's of traditional computers.

Systems

The emergence of knowledge economy and knowledge management revealed the need for reconsidering the concept of knowledge in a larger framework than that created by philosophers from ancient times. While the epistemology as a theory of knowledge and justification considers knowledge as a justified true belief, experts in knowledge management consider knowledge as a strategic resource. The new economic interpretation of knowledge as a strategic resource and a key contributor to achieving a competitive advantage generated a search of new metaphors to supply the attributes needed in constructing the new framework of understanding and operating with a working concept of knowledge in management. The most widespread knowledge metaphors are based on analogies with stocks, flows, and stock-and-flows. These metaphors induce, beyond some useful attributes, the Newtonian mechanics paradigm which is limited by the properties of linear spaces and reversible processes. The purpose of this paper is...

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1999

This work elaborates the notion of localised technological knowledge, based upon the distinction between information, competence and knowledge, and analyses the emergence of the new knowledge industry. The evolution of the organisation of knowledge production is analysed through four stylised modes: scientific entrepreneurship, institutional variety, vertical integration and technological cooperation. The new trends towards the growth of knowledge-intensive business service industries are detected and underlined. They are considered as the outcome of the institutional formation of a market for knowledge based upon a process of increasing appropriability of localised knowledge based on: the blending of generic scientific information and competence and growing scope of applicability via computercommunication systems; deverticalisation of research activities from the boundaries of corporations; the specification of a demand for technological competence; and the specialising of independent firms in the production of technological competence and knowledge.