Knowledge Organization: past, present and future under the perspective of ISKO

Authors

  • José Augusto Chaves Guimarães Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP/Marília)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1981-8920.2017v22n2p84

Keywords:

Knowledge Organization. International Society for Knowledge Organization – ISKO, Knowledge Organization History, Knowledge Organization Theory

Abstract

Introduction: Knowledge organization is a field of interdisciplinary nature whose configuration as a scientific discipline has been consolidating in the international context notably during the last two decades through the institution of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). However, it is not yet clear how this configuration has been built over time, especially regarding the challenges and perspectives that it faces. Objectives: The research fronts (or theoretical perspectives) - epistemological, applied and cultural - that permeate ISKO as a scientific space are analyzed in relation to their theoretical references, and in relation to the research challenges and perspectives that they fave today. Methodology: Using a literature review of knowledge organization in a historical perspective, we identify the thematic trends that are inherent to it as well as its challenges and perspectives. Results and conclusions: In the process of scientific construction of knowledge organization, we observed that ISKO plays an important role as a space for the construction and dissemination of knowledge as well as the promotion of scientific dialogicity at the international level. In this context, three actions are particularly important: the creation of new ISKO chapters (national and regional), providing new spaces for production and scientific dialogue; the intensification and multiplication of inter-institutional and intercountry scientific partnerships that may reflect a global construction but always taking into account local meanings; and the consolidation of this domain of knowledge as a nuclear research space in Information Science, since it deals with an essential mediating activity that allows the maintenance of a continuous helicoidal movement of the growth (in scope and depth) of research in the area, permeated by the need of a constant and sharp criticism inherent to the dynamic spaces.

Author Biography

José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP/Marília)

Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação. Professor do Departamento de Ciência da Informação da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – Marília

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Published

2017-10-29

How to Cite

Guimarães, J. A. C. (2017). Knowledge Organization: past, present and future under the perspective of ISKO. Informação & Informação, 22(2), 84–98. https://doi.org/10.5433/1981-8920.2017v22n2p84

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