Interdisciplinary Knowledge Organization
This book proposes a novel approach to classification, discusses its myriad advantages, and outlines how such an approach to classification can best be pursued. It encourages a collaborative effort toward the detailed development of such a classification.
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disciplinary Knowledge Organization
Interdisciplinary Knowledge Organization
Rick Szostak • Claudio Gnoli Marı´a Lopez-Huertas
Interdisciplinary Knowledge Organization
Rick Szostak University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Claudio Gnoli Universita di Pavia Pavia, Italy
Marı´a Lopez-Huertas University of Granada Granada, Granada, Spain
ISBN 978-3-319-30147-1 ISBN 978-3-319-30148-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30148-8
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Preface
This book is motivated by the increased importance of interdisciplinary scholarship within the academy and the widely perceived shortcomings of existing knowledge organization schemes (KOSs) in serving interdisciplinary scholarship. The book reaches a set of very strong conclusions: • Existing bibliographic classification systems [that is, classifications of works, as in libraries] are organized on a disciplinary basis; as a consequence they serve interdisciplinary research and teaching poorly. • A novel approach to classification, grounded in the phenomena studied rather than disciplines, would serve interdisciplinary scholarship much better. It would also prove advantageous for disciplinary scholarship. If we can aid all scholars in their search for information, the productivity of scholarship would thus be increased. • This novel approach is entirely feasible. Various concerns that might be raised can each be addressed. The broad outlines of what a new classification would look like are developed. • This new approach might serve as a complement to or a substitute for existing classification systems. • Though the impetus for this novel approach comes from interdisciplinarity, it is also better suited to the needs of the Semantic Web
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