Knowledge Organization For Information Retrieval

Learn step-by-step how to develop knowledge-based products for international use! Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval examines current efforts to deal with the increasing globalization of information and knowledge. International authors walk you through the theoretical foundations and conceptual elements behind knowledge management, addressing areas such as the Internet, multinational resources, translations, and information languages. The tools, techniques, and case studies provided in this book will be invaluable to anyone interested in bridging the international information retrieval language gap. This book is divided into four sections that address major themes for internationalized information and knowledge: General Bibliographic Systems discusses how bibliographic classification systems can be adapted for specific subjects, the problems with addressing different language expressions, and the future of these systems Information Organization in Knowledge Resources explores knowledge organization and classification, focusing mainly on libraries and on the Internet Linguistics, Terminology, and Natural Language Processing analyzes the latest developments in language processing and the design of information retrieval tools and resources Knowledge in the World and the World of Knowledge addresses the ontological foundations of knowledge organization and classification and knowledge management in organizations from different cultures With this book, you’ll gain a better understanding about the international efforts to globalize: the Dewey Decimal Classification the Library of Congress Classification the Universal Decimal Classification multilingual thesauri Web directories of education-related resources human language technology metadata schemas the North American Industry Classification Figures, tables, charts, and diagrams elucidate the concepts in Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval. Information educators and practitioners as well as specialists in classification and knowledge organization will find this book valuable for its focus on the problems ofand solutions forinformation retrieval for specific linguistic, cultural, and domain communities of discourse.

Literally Knowledge Organisation is the organisation of knowledge. This organisation is made in order to facilitate the use of documents or recorded knowledge (or other units). Information or knowledge management is essentially a four-step process that includes capturing, organising, refining and disseminating information. The process begins with the capturing of information relevant to the activities and interests of people in an organisation. Such information may be available in a variety of sources, forms and formats. Once information is captured, it needs to be organised using a number of techniques that include cataloguing and indexing, retrieving, filtering, ranking, and so on. Efficiency of an information access system depends largely on the proper organisation of information. Information processing is the acquisition, recording, organisation, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Over the years, information science researchers and practitioners have developed and used various techniques for organising information resources of different types. However, off late, with the introduction of information and communication technologies several sophisticated systems have been developed for organisation of information. Libraries and information services have a long history of using various tools for organising information resources. Knowledge Organisation, Information Processing and Retrieval focuses on the various bibliographic and information retrieval tools and techniques used for information organisation, a key activity in a knowledge management process. The book begins with the existing debate on the very concept of knowledge management, and looks at some recent papers and arguments on this issue. It then briefly discusses how some projects over the past decade or so have used various traditional bibliographic organisation tools for providing access to electronic resources.

This title was first published in 2000: For its third edition, this text on knowledge organization and retrieval has been revised and restructured to accommodate the increased significance of electronic information resources. With new sections on topics such as information retrieval via the Web, metadata and managing information retrieval systems, the book explains principles relating to hybrid print-based and electronic networked environments experienced by today's users. The book is an accessible introduction to knowledge organization for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of information management and information systems.

Learn step-by-step how to develop knowledge-based products for international use! Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval examines current efforts to deal with the increasing globalization of information and knowledge. International authors walk you through the theoretical foundations and conceptual elements behind knowledge management, addressing areas such as the Internet, multinational resources, translations, and information languages. The tools, techniques, and case studies provided in this book will be invaluable to anyone interested in bridging the international information retrieval language gap. This book is divided into four sections that address major themes for internationalized information and knowledge: “General Bibliographic Systems” discusses how bibliographic classification systems can be adapted for specific subjects, the problems with addressing different language expressions, and the future of these systems “Information Organization in Knowledge Resources” explores knowledge organization and classification, focusing mainly on libraries and on the Internet “Linguistics, Terminology, and Natural Language Processing” analyzes the latest developments in language processing and the design of information retrieval tools and resources “Knowledge in the World and the World of Knowledge” addresses the ontological foundations of knowledge organization and classification and knowledge management in organizations from different cultures With this book, you’ll gain a better understanding about the international efforts to globalize: the Dewey Decimal Classification the Library of Congress Classification the Universal Decimal Classification multilingual thesauri Web directories of education-related resources human language technology metadata schemas the North American Industry Classification Figures, tables, charts, and diagrams elucidate the concepts in Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval. Information educators and practitioners as well as specialists in classification and knowledge organization will find this book valuable for its focus on the problems of—and solutions for—information retrieval for specific linguistic, cultural, and domain communities of discourse.

The papers contributed by the participants from 29 countries and printed in this volume were reviewed by the members of the international scientific committee. The main topics of the conference are represented by epistemology of knowledge organization, information and knowledge in e-society, knowledge representation, engineering and management aspects of knowledge organization (with the focus on knowledge organization), classification schemes, taxonomies and categorization schemes, thesauri, semantic networks and ontologies, knowledge organization systems for understanding, sense-making and learning, knowledge organization systems for decision support systems, knowledge organization systems for knowledge discovery in very large datasets, data modeling for the semantic Web, organization of linked data, indexing and retrieval in multilingual environments, organization of unstructured information, multimedia in knowledge organization, Web indexing and social tagging, user needs in knowledge organization, automatic categorization and indexing, history of knowledge organization and ISKO, knowledge organization for the future.

Information and Knowledge Organisation explores the role of knowledge organisation in the digital humanities. By focusing on how information is described, represented and organised in both research and practice, this work furthers the transdisciplinary nature of digital humanities. Including contributions from Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and the Middle East, the volume explores the potential uses of, and challenges involved in, applying the organisation of information and knowledge in the various areas of Digital Humanities. With a particular focus on the digital worlds of cultural heritage collections, the book also includes chapters that focus on machine learning, knowledge graphs, text analysis, text annotations and network analysis. Other topics covered include: semantic technologies, conceptual schemas and data augmentation, digital scholarly editing, metadata creation, browsing, visualisation and relevance ranking. Most importantly, perhaps, the book provides a starting point for discussions about the impact of information and knowledge organisation and related tools on the methodologies used in the Digital Humanities field. Information and Knowledge Organisation is intended for use by researchers, students and professionals interested in the role information and knowledge organisation plays in the Digital Humanities. It will be essential reading for those working in library and information science, computer science and across the humanities. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.