Knowledge Organization

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Knowledge Organization Management Specialization

• Inter-disciplinary Program in Information Science

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Knowledge Organization Management

• "the description of documents, their contents,
  features and purposes, and the organization of
  these descriptions so as to make these documents
  and their parts accessible to persons seeking
  them or the messages that they contain. Knowledge
  organization encompasses every type and method of
  indexing, abstracting, cataloguing,
  classification, records management, bibliography
  and the creation of textual or bibliographic
  databases for information retrieval."
• JD Anderson (1996).

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Knowledge Organization Management

• Actions
• Describe, organize, make accessible, retrieve
• Attributes
• Contents, features, purposes, messages
• Techniques
• indexing, abstracting, cataloguing,
  classification, records management, bibliography
  and the creation of textual or bibliographic
  databases

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Knowledge Organization Management

• Describe/Organize/access/retrieve Use of logic
  and other formalisms to describe/ things of
  interest ((Neil Murray, Tomek Strzalkowski,
  Philip Eppard, Hema Iyer, Ozlem Uzuner, Jagdish
  Gangolly, )
• expert systems (Robin Burk)
• semantic web
• Concept maps
• Formal concept analysis (Robin Burk)
• Ontologies
• Taxonomies (Ingrid Fisher)
• Concept hierarchies (Brook Wu)
• Markup languages (Mark Giguere, Tom Tribunella)

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Knowledge Organization Management

• Content, Features, Purposes, messages
• Natural language processing Content analysis
  (Tomek Strzalkowski, Ozlem Uzuner, Jennifer
  Stromer-Galley, Jagdish Gangolly,) (Ingrid
  Fisher, Peggy Garnsey, Brook Wu, Brett Stone)
• User behaviour in information seeking (Hema Iyer,
  Huahai Yang, Jenny Yuan, )

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Knowledge Organization Management

• Important Organizations
• ISKO (Intl Society for KO)
• ACM (SIGIR)
• ACL (Assn for Computational Linguistics)
• ASIST
• AAAI
• IEEE-CS (TCDE, TCDL, TCCI,TCMC))