Sam Oh [Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul Korea] sought to improve the digital catalog of the National Library of Korea. To do this, he sought to apply two models of library cataloging to the corpus: the FRBR model and Topic Maps. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Knowledge Organization’ Category
FRBR and Topic Maps in Designing a Semantic Digital Library
January 12, 2008Are there Ontomon?
November 10, 2007Are there ontomon? Looking for types of information organization frameworks and systems by Joe Tennis
Situation:
Consider wickedary, flickr, Connotea, the Gene Ontology, open archives initiatives, etc… Social tagging is blooming, ontology engineering is on the rise, people seek to promote vocabulary interoperation, etc…
Analysis:
The armchair scholar in knowledge organization states, “This proliferation is evidence of a need for sound knowledge organization principles. These people are organizing information, but they are organizing it wrong.” An opposing stance is that this organizing behaviour will improve the scholars understanding of Knowledge Organization.
In other words, Joe Tennis believes that they are worth studying. But how? (more…)
Designing for “Third Culture”?
April 20, 2007Tabitha Hart and Bob Mason
Tabitha’s interest is in intercultural communication: how people from different cultures communicate. She starts by reporting on her fieldwork: interviewing baristas in Starbucks, Germany.
The discussion topic is about the notion: “Third Culture” (a notion reminiscent of “Third Place”). (more…)
Facilitating User-System Coordination by Exploring Linguistic Evidence, Community Membership Information, and Perceptual Evidence
February 17, 2007Hongyan Ma presented her dissertation work today. Her research involves testing the power of “coordination theory” to improve search (Information Retrieval or “IR”). She developed a model and tested it through a proof-of-concept system. Her talk prompted the audience to speculate about the role of user-generated information and IR. In simple terms, a major discussion question was: “How much should we depend on user-generated content to improve search?”
