Organization, Information, Maintenance

Organization, Information, Maintenance

Information, documents and texts have been regularly studied for their role in organizing, notably as material artifacts and ‘immutable mobiles’ (Latour). Yet, stability and immutability can not be considered as intrinsic properties for information. As for interactions (Goffman), objects and infrastructures (Graham & Thrift), information is repaired and maintained. We will investigate two domai...

Knowledge Organization or Information Organization

This paper focuses on the various bibliographic and information retrieval tools and techniques used for information organization, a key activity in a knowledge management process. The paper begins with the existing debate on the very concept of knowledge management, and looks at some recent papers and arguments on this issue. It then briefly discusses how some projects over the past decade or s...

Information Technology and Work Organization Information Technology and Work Organization

Corporate Memory: A framework for supporting tools for acquisition, organization and maintenance of information and knowledge

In this paper we describe corporate memory which can support multiple knowledge acquisition, organization and maintenance tools. Memory holds and manages documents and related information and knowledge processed and created by such tools. Tools can work with several types of data such as documents, data in relational database and semantic data. Such diversity of information is needed due to dif...

Usage-driven maintenance of knowledge organization systems

Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) are typically used as background knowledge for document indexing in information retrieval. They have to be maintained and adapted constantly to reflect changes in the domain and the terminology. In this thesis, approaches are provided that support the maintenance of hierarchical knowledge organization systems, like thesauri, classifications, or taxonomies, b...