KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION AND ISKO: some considerations for its development
H. Peter Ohly · Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2013
Traditionally “Knowledge Organization” is the ordering of documents on a bookshelf and the indexing of these in a more or less one-dimensional catalog. Now with the Web, its many and hyperlinked, distributed and heterogeneous sources the plain terminological approaches are no longer sufficient. In the same way ISKO society has to rethink its mission. The “New” Knowledge Organization, which aims at the “Semantic” Web 3.0 tries to combine different Knowledge Organization systems by shared meta data and formalized ontologies that are logical deductive. Whereas the semantic approaches have quite an opposite approach to the 'social driven systems the future might lay in a combination of logical descriptions, specialized evaluation, and self-organizing principles, what could be named “Self Organizing Knowledge Organization Systems”. But still there are open questions which might be solved in future by ISKO and neighbor societies. Not at least ethics and trust are key parameters.