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7. How to Develop a KOS to Serve Interdisciplinarity

Authors : Rick Szostak, Claudio Gnoli, María López-Huertas

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Abstract

This chapter begins with several strategies for developing the sort of general classification urged in preceding chapters. It first discusses strategies for reducing ambiguity. It then addresses how to structure a phenomenon-based KOS. Integrative levels, dependence relationships, and general systems theory are explored. The chapter then looks in some detail at the practical classification of phenomena and relationships.

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Footnotes
1
More detailed advice on how to develop such a classification can be found on the websites of the Integrative Levels Classification (see Integrative Levels Classification 2004) and the Basic Concepts Classification (see Szostak 2013). These are described in more detail in Chap. 4.
 
2
A third option would be to start from kinds of documents, like school handbooks or academic articles or documentary films, that is from the dimension of carriers; but clearly this would lead us even farther from an interdisciplinary approach. It is nevertheless valuable to classify documents in terms of this dimension, and facilitate searches that might illuminate how different types of carrier operate in different fields.
 
3
A detailed bibliography on levels theories and their application to knowledge organization, edited by Claudio Gnoli and Hong Mei, is available at www.​iskoi.​org/​ilc/​ref.​php.
 
4
This does not mean that all parts are identified hierarchically. Molecules, for example, are not treated as parts of organisms, but are rather classified in their own right. Only parts that are tied to a particular class—such as the administrative units of a particular state—are treated hierarchically.
 
5
There are still challenges. Gnoli et al. (2011) discusses several practical problems in providing notation within a freely faceted classification.
 
6
We utilize the terms ‘things’ or ‘entities’ here, as ‘phenomena’ are often defined to include ‘properties.’
 
7
We ignore here Farradane’s more abstract discussion of appurtenance, concurrence, and so on.
 
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Metadata
Title
How to Develop a KOS to Serve Interdisciplinarity
Authors
Rick Szostak
Claudio Gnoli
María López-Huertas
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Interdisciplinary Knowledge Organization

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-30147-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-30148-8

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30148-8_7

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