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The background of the work presented in this paper is based on automatic thesauri, and the improvement they provided to the "so called" not-classical relationships proposed by Van-Slype. We intend to enhance the usage of association relationships, grouped by Tudhope. Alani y Jones and emphasized by the American Library Association (ALA) relationships translation. We fight the static approach as well as the taxonomical classification presented in classical thesauri, not allowing them to represent dynamics, transversal relationships, and hypermedia navigation. This paper propose "verbal forms" as dynamic concepts, origin to relationships, essentials of action, and very useful to represent context by circumstantial relationships (based on the antecedents of A. L. Tharp and SYNTOL). The main application areas of our work are gender determination of Swales, document sections typology and a more effective thesauri functions in the net Future research developments include associative categorization from WordNet applicative experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In parallel to the progressive extension of the production of Open Educational Resources (OER), it raises the need for patterns in the design process of these resources. Patterns are a guide or template to solve a problem that occurs frequently and whose solution has generated a response model. Using patterns to design educational resources promotes the quality, decreases the execution of parallel jobs and facilitates communication between the designers of these resources. This last feature of the patterns is their greatest contribution to the information society. An important group of the patterns that exist are stored in digital repositories, which can have thousands of these. Searches on these repositories may become slow and difficult, requiring large amounts of time and effort. In this paper a system for recommending REA design patterns, which are stored in digital repositories was proposed. The system is based on textual cases and their use contributes to the selection of appropriate patterns to solve problems in design of educational resources, promoting reuse and, therefore, the management of knowledge that is available to designer's educational resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Decision making in science and technology is a complex task due to the multiple intervening factors. In the present paper a methodology for science and technology indicator analysis for organizational decision making purpose is presented. This methodology is based on the modeling of causal relations among indicators through fuzzy cognitive maps and its dynamics and statics analysis. For static analysis a node centrality composite indicator based on OWA operators is proposed. OWA operators based on distance are used to quantify scenario analysis. A case study is presented showing the proposal applicability. The methodology shows significant results for the application of fuzzy cognitive maps in science and technology decision making and policy conception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to perform a diagnostic to identify improvements and policies necessary for the implementation of a technical procedure of archival processes in the Documentation Center (CEDOC) of LIT / INPE. The research is characterized as a case study, with the use of questionnaires and interviews, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, using descriptive and exploratory techniques tofacilitate the search for solutions for it document management process. As a result, it was obtained a map of the Current State of CEDOC, which allowed the identification of possible solutions to the Center, with the preparation of a Future State Map proposed for CEDOC, with suggestions and improvements to the center. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals the systematization of experiences in the publication of the Varela journal, which is published in digital format by the University of Pedagogical Sciences «Felix Varela Morales», Villa Clara, Cuba, which it had as a fundamental intention the understanding and interpretation of the lived process, considering the quality as the axis of systematization of this process. The historical recovery of the experiences, allowed the ordering of the data by stages and the critical interpretation of the process lived to the light of the theoretical referents, allowed to penetrate in the fundamental regularities of each stage, for later through the synthesis, to arrive again at the object in its totality, in order to elaborate an action plan, for to increase the quality of the publication in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces a conceptual data model for representing data views using ontologies. The main objective is to avoid the recodification of information systems when business logic changes appear. The experiments carried out are supported by a prototype of data retrieval tool capable of the dynamic generation of user interfaces based on the proposed ontology. As result of the experimentation, the practicability of the proposal has been proved. Results shown in here are a first step in a semantic-approach for the integration of open data sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes as a basis the existence of an Informatics Technological Centre, implanted in a Research Complex, which is based on an architecture of agents and provides users with updated information, mechanisms of alerts and ease in finding information with a proactive behavior. Despite all these facilities provided, this Technological Observatory has lacks of functionalities for monitoring trends and indicators related to research topics. It is proposed to use Business Intelligence elements, such as dashboards, plus social modeling approach and i* to model the Observatory with new functionality to improve support decision making. As a result i* models are obtained where Technological Observatory requirements following a goal-oriented approach are captured. In these models the actors, goals, tasks and resources needed to incorporate elements of the dashboards in the Technology Centre are incorporated following an architecture of agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses how can capture the needs of a proactive Technological Observatory following the approach of social modeling. Besides is shown the inclusion of a proactive behaviors to the Technological Observatory using the philosophy of agents in order to maintain updated users just by knowing their interests. A pilot test with 30 users was developed. The survey was used to measure results. The applied social modeling helped to understand the relationships between the actors who originally take part of the environment to analyze and which is intended to implement the information system. The developed Technology Observatory is a tool for collaboration, support academic work and research to support an organization I + D + i . The inclusion of proactive features in a Technological Centre improves its performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we describe the difficulties presented by the organizations to run the software process improvement and the tendency to identify critical success factors. However, many factors exist scattered in the literature, which makes the processing of information. The research was directed to analyze the methods used to study the factors, define a process to apply information management to identify and identify these to the Cuban organizations. Scientific methods were applied expert consultation to codify explicit knowledge and information. The results affect the conceptualization and powerful compression for factors include variables associated with the factors. It not only confirms the importance of information management to address this problem but demonstrate how to do it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to reflect on the development of Information Science from its origins and its interfaces with other sciences. It discusses, mainly, the relations of Information Science with technology and the role of technology in this trajectory of mutations. It calls the attention for the importance the Information Science, and the role of information professionals in the mediation of users in the information society, focusing, mainly, Brazilian reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some reflections on the work market and professions are presented. The role and features of professions in a scenario of changes is discussed based on the Sociology of Professions. The vision of several researches, the mutation processes inherent to the new economic model and the development of new professional spaces are stressed. This paper also deals with the evolution of information related professions. It is reaffirmed that technological and structural changes taking place in the society of information are forcing information professionals to redefine their position in the work market. It is underlined that to the extent informational functions become more complex and specific, this trend to specificity provides more opportunities to specialists from other disciplines. Competences are questioned and regulated in front of technological breakthroughs. It is stated that the search of synergies and common points with other fields and professions could be enriching for information professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is presented a study on the use of the term «services» and its connections or related terms, in the titles of Cuban professional production of librarianship and information sciences from 1905 until 2008, of LBI database (Cuban Information Biological Literature). There were applied methods to carry out this investigation, such as the documentary analysis for the theoretical study, terminological applications for the extraction of terms, the temporary series to determine the historical evolution of the categories of terms and correlations among terms looking for associations. There are presented the results with the categories of terms: services; bibliography; databases; education of users; study of needs; literacy; promotion. This part is concluded with the statement that few scholars worried about Cuban culture and books carried out significant studies. Currently, the bibliographic activity totally rests on technological applications, starting from the creation and use of databases which record, in an automated manner, what was recorded in paper more than one century ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge networks are the expression machine of man as knowledge producer and his need for exchanging, sharing and transferring what he learns, from the interaction through a technological platform. This paper analyzes different standpoints related to the emergence of knowledge networks, as well as related theoretical and conceptual aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, which is a bibliographical review, sets out the theoretical aspects related to information services, evolution, their assessment, information services and their relation to human resources. Also, the advantages of the evaluative process are presented, taking into account that users' needs constantly change, so it is indispensable for the specialists working at information organizations to research them systematically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses how, in the international and national context, information science has channeled initiatives to solve the specific problems of e-documents, but all these initiatives have arisen out of the concern for the validity and authenticity of these e-documents and their long-term preservation through the use of constantly changing new information and communication technologies (NICTs), according to society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of collections is a necessary and indispensable structure to management in the information organizations. New imperatives are assigned by the Information Society to this process, especially mediated by information and communication technologies. New concepts and ways of doing emerge in Library Science and Information Sciences, which have a repercussion on and determine the development of collections. This paper analyzes some of the main trends, which provide guidelines for and orient the activity of development of collections through the use and handling of technologies in management in the information organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is aimed at analyzing the selection concepts furnished by some authors who, throughout history, have been in line with their time and, as a positive feature, have thought about the informational needs of a certain universe of users. A new concept of this process is provided, it was produced in light of the current development of sciences and the introduction of novel technologies in every human knowledge fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the basic concepts of information systems, processes and flows, and their interrelation, as well as the benefits of process management and its use in information organizations. It describes the key processes performed at the Information Center of the Telecommunications Company of Cuba, S.A. (ETECSA) It explains what applying process management in information organizations consists of, its benefits, the importance of information flows, its influence on processes, the methodologies aimed at orienting the structure, logical organization and determination of processes for problem solving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Herein are given the results of a study carried on, in order to automate an information center, based on the utilization of tools such as information management and free software. Information management gives the possibility to know the present situation of any information center as well as evaluate its needs, is for that reason that is necessary to identify and analyze information flows and resources. Based on this, are developed strategies in order to automate the processes performed by the work team, which is the object of this study. Also are defined here automation needs and those free software, that were elaborated to automate different library processes and are presented in this paper too, studies in relation with the creation of OPAC CLABEL, as the first system set, which was developed with an ISIS tool in a Web environment and MARC21 is the format for data input and interchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper are analyzed some aspects in association with the appearance and development of language as form of human communication and to obtain knowledge. Also are mentioned the process named ‘information explosion’, the scientific and technical development, and the growth of scientific literature at the latest 50 years, with special attention to documentary languages created for a rapid information search and retrieval. Finally, is given a general view about all the process for the creation and present and future development of the Planinformacion Thesaurus, as a language used in the economic and social information search and retrieval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the development of the WWW information systems in the local administration in Spain (1997-2002). First, we are going to review the legislation about public administration on Internet (LORTAD, Comisión Interministerial de Información Administrativa, Plan Info XXI, España.es, Red.es etc.). Our main objective is to register the historical evolution of the use and application of WWW in Spanish local administration, arised by the number of citizens. We propose one new method of analysis: the study of the first level domains of the electronic addresses of the units. Finally, we conclude that there has been an important evolution, though it is not homogeneous, that: those units that have been lately introduced in Internet have experienced a fast growth since 1999, that the measure domain strange/own is valid for the town halls and that the domain ".es" is diminishing compared to others such as ".org". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper gives a personal and global vision about the new technologies in the library services, from the point of view of this century. It's treated information development and explosion, its retrieval and transference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Herein are treated aspects about scientific communication history and the role that it played, particularly, the changes that took place before the appearance of computers and communication electronic networks. The development process and the main functions of scientific publications -memory and dissemination- are recovered as science communication principal tool . To make sure the permanence of these functions, quality criteria, in both, printed and electronic publications should have the same structure, in electronic publications these are considered new structure elements. This paper is written as a part of a project which objective is to establish a model, that will allow librarians, authors and readers of these publications, to identify those that meet quality criteria. These course packages can be included in programs for graduate and postgraduate studies for professionals in the field of Information Sciences and in other projects oriented to the editors of scientific electronic publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present research was based on data collected from articles published by the Revista Geologica de Chile between 1974 and 1997, covering a period of 24 years. Strait count was adopted and therefore only senior authors were credited with full contribution to the production of an article. In this period, 178 authors were identified as publishing a total of 320 articles in this journal; 72% of them produced only one paper. The Least Square Method and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test were used to verify the observed and expected values. At the 0.01 level of significance the critical value was found to be 0.1222 and the Dmax was 0.1063. Therefore, this literature did conform to the Lotka's law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the need of theoretical and conceptual conceptions in Library and Information Science, this paper reviews different approaches of authors in some aspects related with the epistemology of Library and Information Science. The authors point out study objects, related disciplines, field phenomenic of each and some other philosophical aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]