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- Da Silva Santos Sundström, Admeire
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Ethical Issues from Decolonial Practices in Knowledge Organization : The Case of Indigenous Collections in Världskulturmuseet
- 2023
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. - 0943-7444. ; 50:6, s. 439-451
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Museum of World Culture (Varldskulturmuseet) has been implementing some decolonial practices in its indigenous collection. Therefore, the museum started migrating its collection to a new platform, and as part of this project, the museum needs to review its knowledge organization system, as some problems related to classification and terminology were identified in the current database called Carlotta. The next step is to create a controlled vocabulary specific to the indigenous group, however, dealing with a sensitive collection requires identifying the ethical issues. Then, we question what ethical issues can be raised in organizing and representing Knowledge of Indigenous Collections in the Varldskulturmuseet? This is a case study that employed an interview and content analysis of the Carlotta database. As a result, we point to the growth of research in the indigenous librarianship field. The museum uses inappropriate and obsolete terms to describe some of the collection objects. We conclude that indigenous self-determination in cultural institutions can guide the ethical issues related to the creation of a knowledge organization system in a museum.
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- Da Silva Santos Sundström, Admeire
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Ethical Issues from Decolonial Practices in Knowledge Organization : The Case of Indigenous Collections in Världskulturmuseet
- 2023
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. - 0943-7444. ; 50:6, s. 439-451
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet) has been implementing some decolonial practicesin its indigenous collection. Therefore, the museum started migrating its collection to a new platform, and as partof this project, the museum needs to review its knowledge organization system, as some problems related to classi-fication and terminology were identified in the current database called Carlotta. The next step is to create a con-trolled vocabulary specific to the indigenous group, however, dealing with a sensitive collection requires identifying the ethical issues. Then, we question what ethical issues can be raised in organizing and representing Knowledge of Indigenous Collections in the Världskulturmuseet? This is a case study that employed an interview and content analysis of the Carlotta database. As a result, we point to the growth of research in the indigenous librarianship field. The museum uses inappropriate and obsolete terms to describe some of the collection objects. We conclude that indigenous self-determination in cultural institutions can guide the ethical issues related to the creation of a knowledge organization system in a museum.
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- Gnoli, Claudio, et al.
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Library Catalog’s Search Interface : Making the Most of Subject Metadata
- 2024
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. - 0943-7444. ; 51:3, s. 169-186
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the underutilization of knowledge organization systems (KOS) elements in online library catalogs, hindering effective subject-based search and discovery. It highlights the International Society for Knowledge Organization's initiative to develop metadata guidelines for library catalog procurement, focusing on maximizing the value of subject metadata from classification systems and controlled vocabularies. The paper discusses the rationale for quality subject access, proposes desirable search functionalities based on research, explores implementation challenges, and outlines future developments. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of providing quality subject access in digital services and calls for further research on interface design, guideline adoption, KOS evolution, and the impact of language models on subject metadata use. The work underscores the need for applying controlled vocabularies in search interfaces across libraries, archives, and museums while acknowledging the complementary role of alternative approaches like social tagging and automatic indexing. Extensive future research is suggested to implement search functionalities, promote guidelines adoption, enhance KOS evolution, and assess the influence of language models on subject metadata utilization.
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- Golub, Koraljka
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Automatic Subject Indexing of Text
- 2019
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. - 0943-7444. ; 46:2, s. 104-121
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Automatic subject indexing addresses problems of scale and sustainability and can be at the same time used to enrich existing metadata records, establish more connections across and between resources from various metadata and resource collections, and enhance consistency of the metadata. In this work, automatic subject indexing focuses on assigning index terms or classes from established knowledge organization systems (KOSs) for subject indexing like thesauri, subject headings systems and classification systems. The following major approaches are discussed, in terms of their similarities and differences, advantages and disadvantages for automatic assigned indexing from KOSs: "text categorization," "document clustering," and "document classification." Text categorization is perhaps the most widespread, machine-learning approach with what seems generally good reported performance. Document clustering automatically both creates groups of related documents and extracts names of subjects depicting the group at hand. Document classification re-uses the intellectual effort invested into creating a KOS for subject indexing and even simple string-matching algorithms have been reported to achieve good results, because one concept can be described using a number of different terms, including equivalent, related, narrower and broader terms. Finally, applicability of automatic subject indexing to operative information systems and challenges of evaluation are outlined, suggesting the need for more research.
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- Golub, Koraljka
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Subject Access in Swedish Discovery Services
- 2018
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - : Ergon-Verlag. - 0943-7444. ; 45:4, s. 297-309
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While support for subject searching has been traditionally advocated for in library catalogs, often in the form of a catalog objective to find everything that a library has on a certain topic, research has shown that subject access has not been satisfactory. Many existing online catalogs and discovery services do not seem to make good use of the intellectual effort invested into assigning controlled subject index terms and classes. For example, few support hierarchical browsing of classification schemes and other controlled vocabularies with hierarchical structures, few provide end-user-friendly options to choose a more specific concept to increase precision, a broader concept or related concepts to increase recall, to disambiguate homonyms, or to find which term is best used to name a concept. Optimum subject access in library catalogs and discovery services is analyzed from the perspective of earlier research as well as contemporary conceptual models and cataloguing codes. Eighteen proposed features of what this should entail in practice are drawn. In an exploratory qualitative study, the three most common discovery services used in Swedish academic libraries are analyzed against these features. In line with previous research, subject access in contemporary interfaces is demonstrated to less than optimal. This is in spite of the fact that individual collections have been indexed with controlled vocabularies and a significant number of controlled vocabularies have been mapped to each other and are available in interoperable standards. Strategic action is proposed to build research-informed (inter)national standards and guidelines.
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- Hammarfelt, Björn
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Discipline
- 2020
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - Würzburg : Ergon-Verlag. - 0943-7444. ; 47:3, s. 244-256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- “Discipline” is commonly used to denote particular areas of knowledge, research and education. Yet, the concept is often not very well defined or even explicitly discussed when used in knowledge organisation and related fields. The aim of this article is to encourage and facilitate further reflections on academic disciplines, while at the same time offering insights on how this elusive concept might be understood. An overarching argument is that “discipline” should foremost be understood in relation to institutional and organisational features, and this is what distinguishes it from related terms such as, field, domain or topic. The etymology and history of the concept are reviewed along with a discussion of attempts to define and conceptualise disciplines. Insights are offered on how disciplines might be studied. Regardless of our views of disciplines, either as inherently out-dated constructs or as important features of a well-functioning academia, it is concluded that further precision or care in explicating the concept is needed.
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- Hansson, Joacim, 1966-
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The materiality of knowledge organization : epistemology, metaphors and society
- 2013
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - : Ergon-Verlag. - 0943-7444. ; 40:6, s. 384-391
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses the relation between epistemology, social organization and knowledge organization. Three examples are used to show how this relation has proven to be historically stable: 1) the organization of knowledge in 18th century encyclopedias; 2) the problem of bias in the international introduction of DDC in early 20th century libraries in Scandinavia; and 3) the practice of social tagging and folksonomies in contemporary late capitalist society. By using the concept of 'materiality' and the theoretical contribution on the documentality of social objects by Maurizio Ferraris, an understanding of the character of the connection between epistemology and social order in knowledge organization systems is achieved.
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- Johansson, Sandra, et al.
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LibraryThing for Libraries : How Tag Moderation and Size Limitations Affect Tag Clouds
- 2019
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - Alberta : International Society for Knowledge Organization. - 0943-7444. ; 46:4, s. 245-259
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to analyse differences between tags on LibraryThing’s web page and tag clouds in their “LibraryThing for Libraries” service, and assess if, and how, the LibraryThing tag moderation and limitations to the size of the tag cloud in the library catalogue affect the description of the information resource. An e-mail survey was conducted with personnel at LibraryThing, and the results were compared against tags for twenty different fiction books, collected from two different library catalogues with disparate tag cloud sizes, and LibraryThing’s web page. The data were analysed using a modified version of Golder and Huberman’s tag categories (2006). The results show that while LibraryThing claims to only remove the inherently personal tags, several other types of tags are found to have been discarded as well. Occasionally a certain type of tag is included in one book, and excluded in another. The comparison between the two tag cloud sizes suggests that the larger tag clouds provide a more pronounced picture regarding the contents of the book but at the cost of an increase in the number of tags with synonymous or redundant information.
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- Golub, Koraljka, et al.
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Automated classification of textual documents based on a controlled vocabulary in engineering
- 2007
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - : Ergon-Verlag. - 0943-7444. ; 34:4, s. 247-263
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Automated subject classification has been a challenging research issue for many years now, receiving particular attention in the past decade due to rapid increase of digital documents. The most frequent approach to automated classification is machine learning. It, however, requires training documents and performs well on new documents only if these are similar enough to the former. We explore a string-matching algorithm based on a controlled vocabulary, which does not require training documents--instead it reuses the intellectual work put into creating the controlled vocabulary. Terms from the Engineering Information thesaurus and classification scheme were matched against title and abstract of engineering papers from the Compendex database. Simple string-matching was enhanced by several methods such as term weighting schemes and cut-offs, exclusion of certain terms, and enrichment of the controlled vocabulary with automatically extracted terms. The best results are 76% recall when the controlled vocabulary is enriched with new terms, and 79% precision when certain terms are excluded. Precision of individual classes is up to 98%. These results are comparable to state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms.
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