Constrains in Building Domain-Specific Topic Maps for the Discipline “Gender Studies in Informatics (GSI)”

The 21st century has witnessed an overwhelming research output on GSI but due to publication scattering and want of organized database, the outcome of these publications have not been visible to the policy makers and gender scientists. Further, the traditional document management system put a heavy burden on the user in the process of information access, extraction and interpretation. Besides, the absence of domain-specific semantic index in the discipline GSI results in irrelevant retrieval of records resulting in high recall but low precision. In addition, the existing system makes the process of literature-search difficult and time consuming. The exponential growth of literature, the information overload, and the time wasted in searching and browsing in the field of GSI demanded a semantic information processing system. This situation calls for the development of Knowledge Management System (KMS) in GSI by building dynamic (i) knowledge repositories, (ii) semantic index and (iii) knowledge maps and thereby alleviates the problems encountered by the user in the traditional document management system.