Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia (Italy)
Ziyoung Park, Hansung University (South Korea)
Andreas Ledl, University of Basel (Switzerland)
Abstract | This paper addresses knowledge dimensions as units in knowledge organization (KO). Knowledge dimensions concern the ways reality is represented through a series of steps, including (α) reality in itself, (β) phenomena, (γ) perspectives, (δ) documents, (ε) collections, (ζ) information needs, (η) people, (θ) cognition. Concepts of particular perspectives, like the discipline or the viewpoint by which a phenomenon is considered, could be defined in terms of phenomena, e.g. hydrology is the study (γ) of water systems (β), or astronomy is the scientific study (γ) of celestial objects (β)The approach based on phenomena is taken in the Integrative Levels Classification (ILC), which primarily lists phenomena rather than disciplines. DDC tends to lump theory and application in a single class. Both DDC and ILC are used to represent the subjects of KOSs recorded in the Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies and Classifications (BARTOC). The subject of some KOSs only have dimension β with no particular γ. This is the case of the scientific taxonomies of organisms and of languages that simply list their objects, as well as taxonomies for e-commerce that simply list products. Disciplinary classifications imply both γ and β. Other KOSs are explicitly conceived for application to a particular kind of documents, such as books (δ), or a particular kind of collection (ε), such as library classifications or museum classifications. Among the KOSs which deal with educational media used in schools, document (δ) (type of educational media) or people (η) (for children or adolescent) dimensions appear. In conclusion, we were able to apply various dimensions beyond the discipline-focused dimension (γ) when we indexed KOSs in BARTOC. Also, we can find that there are various types of dimension applied according to the characteristics of the KOS.
Bio | Claudio Gnoli is librarian at the University of Pavia Science and Technology Library. His interests include knowledge organization in general, theory of classification, their philosophical grounds and their application to online knowledge bases. He is a former vice-president and the current webmaster of international ISKO, and a member of the UDC Consortium Advisory Board. He is a member of the editorial boards of Knowledge Organization, Axiomathes and AIDA Informazioni. His website is at mate.unipv.it/gnoli.
Bio | Ziyoung Park is Associate Professor of library & information science at Hansung University in South Korea and holds a PhD degree in library and information science from Yonsei university in South Korea. Her doctoral research was on faceted classification of literature. Her research interest is in semantic relationships and their representation. She is working on modelling linked data in the field of performing arts.
Bio | Andreas Ledl is subject librarian for psychology, philosophy and educational studies at the Basel University Library. He holds a graduate degree in educational science from University of Regensburg, a master degree in library and information science from Humboldt University of Berlin and a PhD from University of Flensburg. His research interests include knowledge organization, information literacy, subject indexing, open data, open access, and the Semantic Web. In recent years, he has focused on developing bibliographical databases / search interfaces with the content management system Drupal. He is the initiator, technical head and manager of the Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) and also founder and co-editor of the open access publication 027.7 Journal for Library Culture. ORCID: 0000-0002-0629-0446
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Day 2 | Friday, June 21
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Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia (Italy), Ziyoung Park, Hansung University (South Korea), Andreas Ledl, University of Basel (Switzerland)