Thesaurus Construction and Knowledge Management in Information Centers in the Scope of Knowledge Mapping in Public Institutions
Tunç D. Medeni, Gülten Alır, Erkan İnan, Aydin Nusret Guclu, İ̇hsan Tolga Medeni, Demet Soylu · Advances in library and information science (ALIS) book series · 2016
Taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies are formal abstractions that facilitate individuals and institutions organize their knowledge as part of a controlled language, which make them essential for developing and maintaining organizational knowledge repositories and institutional memories. Ministry of Development is an expert based organization which plans and guides Turkey's development process with a macro-economic view and focuses on the coordination of policies and strategy development. This paper will present and document the first-hand experience and initial findings of BIHAP (Knowledge Mapping Research and Development Project), which has also contributed to the manual construction of the controlled vocabulary of the “development planning”. We will also share our reflections as lessons-learned and good practices from part of this project. We hope these findings and reflections will be useful for other related works for thesaurus construction and knowledge management in institutional information centers and libraries.