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Free Webinar on the use of controlled vocabularies offered to people from Sokoine Agricultural University (SUA), University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Ardhi University (ARU) and Tanzania Meteorological Institute (TMA) working on the project "Strengthening documentation, communication and dissemination of information related to climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in Tanzania". The objective is to build the Tanzania Climate Change Repository, TaCCIRe, a subject repository based on DSpace. The Tanzania Climate Change Information Repository is a digital collection of the intellectual output which is online, free of charge and free from most copyright and licensing restrictions. This repository aims at documenting and enhancing access to relevant information resources produced by CCIAM programme and related information generated from Tanzania. Through the TaCCIRe, research on climate change related to Tanzania and Africa are more visible to the rest of the world.

The webinar presents the LODE-BD Recommendations - Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data- which aims at providing bibliographic data providers of open repositories with a set of recommendations that will support the selection of appropriate encoding strategies for producing meaningful Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data (LODE-BD).

Purpose - This paper investigates the semantic structure underlying DBpedia, one of the largest and most heavily used datasets in the current Linked Open Data (LOD) landscape. Our analysis attempts to shed light on this new type of knowledge organization tool. Design/methodology/approach - The research followed a case study methodology to analyze DBpedia using the domain of jazz as the application scenario. Findings - The study reveals an evolving knowledge organization tool where different descriptive and classification approaches are employed concurrently. The semantic constructs employed in the DBpedia knowledge base vary significantly in terms of their degree of formalization, stability, cohesiveness and consistency. As such, they challenge our tolerance threshold for data quality and our traditional notion of authority control. Research limitations/implications - The analysis is conducted on a limited portion of a large knowledge base. Initial findings provide a basis for further research and study. Practical implications - Revealing the knowledge organization underlying DBpedia increases our understanding of its power, its limitations and its implications for the new semantic context provided by LOD. Having an understanding of the range of entities and properties available enables LOD users to formulate queries with higher precision.

The Open Government initiatives are based on the principle of an administration that involves citizens, both in terms of transparency, as in participation in decision-making processes. In these processes, Open Data and Linked Open Data, have an always more significant place. Besides transparency and administration simplification concerning advantages, the usage of OD stimulates the society development from the social and economic perspective. To illustrate this, I'll pay attention on the Chilean reality and, particularly, on some experiences of the Smart Citizen Foundation.

Results: The information that constitutes the scientific production of Argentina during 2005-2011, is part of a broader study carried out on the redalyc.org collection, which covers 13,414 institutions from 146 countries. The production of Argentina amounts to 8,219 articles that correspond to a contribution of 5.6% of the total analyzed, of these, 59.3% were published in foreign magazines. The distribution by area of knowledge shows that half of the production corresponds to the social sciences (50.9%), followed by sciences (36.6%), arts and humanities (9.8%), and multidisciplinary (2.7 percent). The disciplines with the greatest contribution to scientific production in Argentina are anthropology, sociology, psychology and education for the area of social sciences; while biology, agrosciences, medicine and veterinary medicine are the disciplines with the greatest weight for the science area. In turn, the Argentine production shows 53.6% of articles made in collaboration; Of this co-authored production, 18.4% is with foreign academics, where the joint work with researchers from Spain, Brazil, the United States and Chile stands out. Three institutions concentrate 39.3% of the science produced in Argentina: the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the UNLP (National University of La Plata). Objective: To provide information on the Profile of Scientific Production of Argentina in journals of the redalyc.org collection for the period 2005-2011, in order to know which are both the trends and the behavior of the communication and collaboration strategies registered by the articles produced by Argentine researchers. Method: The scientific production of 800 Ibero-American open access journals during 2005-2011 is studied, based on an analysis model focused on production and communication entities, which allow generating a Scientific Production Profile according to the indicators of: Production ( P), Collaborative Production (PC) and Collaboration (C), applied to a nucleus of 145,515 scientific articles that are part of the redalyc.org collection.

Semantic Web technologies and Linked data form a new reference framework for libraries. The library community aims to integrate its data with the Semantic Web and as a result new library data models have been developed. In this context, significant research effort focuses on the alignment between the library models with relevant models developed by other communities in the cultural heritage domain. However there exist several issues concerning the interoperability between all these data models. This paper seeks to contribute in the interoperability of four models, namely FRBR, FRBRoo, EDM and BIBFRAME. It highlights the commonalities and the divergences between them by using a case bibliographic record and by exploring how this record is represented by each one of them.

This research is directed at studies of the national libraries of South America on the use of descriptive metadata structure standards and content standards for cataloging and its relation with data interoperability of their collections. Defined as main objective to diagnose the use of standards in the cataloging of information resources and the use of interoperable issues among management systems in use by the national libraries of South America As methodological procedure opted for the qualitative and quantitative approach, the literature search and field, and the online questionnaire as an instrument of data collection. Were identified national libraries in the countries of South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, but not in Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname. As a result, it was found that a large proportion of the national libraries of South America uses the MARC21 Bibliographic like structure standard descriptive metadata, the AACR2 as standard content, the ISO2709 format for exchange of bibliographic records, and the protocol Z39.50 for communication and information retrieval literature. It is hoped this research contribute to a better understanding of the operation and use of technological resources in national libraries, specifically on participation in sharing networks, stimulating this area to develop new studies cataloging and technology.

Presentation about "Open Data and the Semantic Web" introducing to the public some of the products that have been developed by AIMS and its partners, like AGRIS, AGROVOC, AgriDrupal, AgriOcean DSpace and the AIMS portal.

LODE-BD aims to support the selection of appropriate encoding strategies for producing meaningful Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data (directly or indirectly). The LODE-BD recommendations are applicable for structured data describing bibliographic resources such as articles, monographs, theses, conference papers, presentation materials, research reports, learning objects, etc. – in print or electronic format. The core component of LODE-BD contains a set of recommended decision trees for common properties used in describing a bibliographic resource instance. Each decision tree is delivered with various acting points and the matching encoding suggestions. The full range of options presented by LODE-BD will enable data providers to make their choices according to their development stages, internal data structures, and the reality of their practices.

We present the most common inadequacies in the training of researchers in relation to social information processing. It elaborates a system of methodological procedures to improve the processing of information in social researches. This system is based on the integration of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, aimed at the formation of an innovative potentiality in researchers. The system was corroborated by an expert consultation and applied successfully in doctoral and master's theses and well as postgraduate courses. It was showed that the system contributed to researchers to manage and transform data into relevant information and the latter in essential knowledge to transform social reality and themselves researchers.

We discuss the ethical aspects of the organization of the information to be presented and analyzed a number of examples terminological subject to various subjective meanings, due to linguistic and ideological contexts in which each term is framed.

In most of the time information does not work in an isolate form and it always belongs to one context, making relationships with other entities. Legislative and legal information, in a certain way, is characterized by their high degree of relationships. Laws, bills, legal cases and doctrine are connected by several forms, creating a rich network of information. Efforts done for the organization of information generate artificial models that try to represent the real world, creating systems and schemes of concepts used in the classification processes and indexing of information resources. This research had the main objective of proposing a Generic Model of Relationship (GMR), based in a simple constructs which permitted the establishment of relationships between concepts and information units. In the conception of GMR were used Ingetraut Dahlberg’s Theory of Concept and the models CIDOC CRM (ISO 21.117:2006), FRBROO and Topic Maps (ISO 13.250:1999). The identification of relationship and the characteristics of information units in a legal domain were collected in the project "Coletânea Brasileira de Normas e Julgados de Telecomunicações", using the methodology of Action Research. Besides the development of GMR and its application in the legislative and legal information domains, the research also contributed with the definitions of one identification system of documents versions and a new meaning for the term “information unit”.

The research aimed to present aspects of teaching Cataloguing according to an analysis of curricula of librarianship courses offered in Brazil. It is a literature review with documentary character, since it is based on Brazilian Librarianship courses curricula and disciplines plans, and also, in the specialized literature about the librarian’s formation and the teaching of cataloging. The data collection about cataloging discipline of Brazilian Librarianship courses was based on the Register of Higher Education (e-MEC site), sent to the IES (Higher Education Institutions), which offer undergraduate courses in librarianship. Among the 38 institutions listed in the e-MEC, three did not offer the course, and two, although offering the course, did not present the data to be analyzed. The parameters analyzed were: administrative nature of the IES, geographic location, total hours of the courses, hours of theoretical and practical disciplines of cataloging, mandatory discipline, and syllabus. Regarding the syllabus, they were considered to identify the subject as belonging to cataloging and for the analysis of courses’ program, particularly with respect to special materials cataloging. With this study we could identify that the "attention" given to the cataloging discipline, in relation to the other components of the curriculum of librarianship undergraduate courses today, is preserved. Now it is time to reflect on its status quo, its future and prospects, by promoting a continuous improvement process, putting an end to any doubt about the importance of this discipline.

Humans, throughout their history, by several ways, have felt the natural need of represent symbolically some social construction of knowledge. We aim to analyze and detach how significant was for the different illiterate communities to have successfully preserved, defended and cultivated their mother tongue as a sign of cultural identity. In most communities that are living under a social vulnerability context, could be detected a permanent extinction risk of their intangible cultural heritage. From a librarian approach, we will try to evaluate the endogenous and collective constriction of oral archives representatives of the step from knowledge to document.

This work is justified against the need to model the conceptual relationships from the nuclear area. This area, despite all its tradition in processing and dissemination of information, has remained static in recent decades with regard to developing of standardization terminology tools and, therefore, has not evolved in relation to the expansion of theoretical and methodological foundations for conceptual modeling. Because of this, the paper presents, from a theoretical approach of the Information Science, a new way for modeling, based on the systematization of conceptual relationships that exist in a given domain. The relational-category method aims to combine relationships categories and formal relationships to coming toward to the model of triadic relations.

El gestor documental del IVAC, implementado sobre un SGBD de texto completo, no puede registrar correctamente las películas que contiene cada uno de sus materiales, así como no permite navegar entre distintos tipos de materiales simultáneamente. En este trabajo se analizan las causas del problema; y se diseña un procedimiento de extracción de datos, análisis y conversión a un SGBD relacional que permita representar los datos de manera fiel a la realidad. El procedimiento diseñado es repetible de forma fácil. El resultado es una aplicación web de consulta del fondo filmográfico.

The discussions on the future of cataloging has received increased attention in the last ten years, mainly due to the impact of rapid development of information and communication technologies in the same period, which has provided access to the Web anytime, anywhere. These discussions revolve around the need for a new bibliographic framework to meet the demand of this new reality in the digital environment, ie how libraries can process, store, deliver, share and integrate their collections (physical, digital or scanned), in current post-PC era? Faced with this question, Open Access, Open Source and Open Standards are three concepts that need to receive greater attention in the field of Library and Information Science, as it is believed to be fundamental elements for the change of paradigm of descriptive representation, currently based conceptually on physical item rather than intellectual work. This paper aims to raise and discuss such issues and instigate information professionals, especially librarians, to think, discuss and propose initiatives for such problems, contributing and sharing ideas and possible solutions, in multidisciplinary teams. At the end is suggested the effective creation of multidisciplinary and inter-institutional study groups on the future of cataloging and its impact on national collections, in order to contribute to the area of descriptive representation in national and international level.

This paper describes the process of constructing a vocabulary of personal names of jazz artists in the form of Linked Open Data (LOD). Created as a name directory to support the development of the Linked Jazz project, it provides a case study that demonstrates the value and the challenges of developing a domain-specific vocabulary tool that draws upon the semantics of DBpedia, a major LOD dataset. The paper also addresses possible strategies for enhancing the directory to make it a more robust personal name vocabulary.

This article focuses on the collaborative project OpenStreetMap OSM. OSM produces open geographical data in a collaborative manner, the resulting data can be used openly, without any charges or restrictions.

This chapter looks at the research cycle and at the opportunities it provides to open up the scientific communication processes that take place during the course of such a cycle. Specifically, it highlights some of the ways in which online platforms like blogs and wikis can be used to enhance scientific research and to harness the potential of open collaboration, both between specialists and across a wider community

Relationships of co-occurrence between keywords, researchers and journals in the professional literature of a given domain can be analyzed and mapped to discover their nodes, subnets, and strategic research areas. A strategic and dynamic analysis was done of the Spanish Research Network on Protected Areas from 1981 to 2005, as identified by the Web of Science and the IEDCYT Databases. This analysis has resulted in a Strategic Diagram and a Strategic knowledge Map of Techno-scientifi c Network or CERT Map, lists of researchers and journals of strategic importance, and a table analyzing the activity of the subnets. Network analysis using KDD techniques and engineering and knowledge mapping provides top grade support for strategic decision-making in science policy and the evaluation of science and technology.

The research illustrates utilization strategies of description standards and advanced technologies that are the basis of recovery ("recuperación retrospectiva") methodologies of archival finding aids, experienced in overcoming the problems associated with communicating and sharing resources. Considering interoperability, both technological and semantic, and long-term preservation of information as primary objectives of information systems, it is considered that recovery operations have to always be characterized by the choice of reference to specific standard solutions, technological (XML as data format) and descriptive encoding (Ead and Eac-Cpf in the archival area).

Στο παρόν άρθρο θα αναφερθούμε στα εργαλεία θεματικής ευρετηρίασης που έχουν αναπτυχθεί και που χρησιμοποιούνται ευρέως στη χώρα μας και στις αδυναμίες τους στην καθημερινή πρακτική, στην αναγκαιότητα ανάπτυξης της συνεργατικότητας μεταξύ των βιβλιοθηκών καθώς και στις νέες δυνατότητες που προσφέρει η συμβολή των χρηστών μέσω τεχνολογιών Web 2.0 στον εμπλουτισμό των θεματικών όρων και στη πιθανή αξιοποίησή τους από τη βιβλιοθήκη.

In this paper we report on our analysis of multilinguality support for thesauri, with special reference to the AGROVOC thesaurus. We highlight that AGROVOC makes exclusive use of ISO 639 to tag languages, and we comment of its appropriateness for a resource such as AGROVOC. We provide examples taken from the subject area of AGROVOC to show the many cases of loan-words that appear when talking about plants and foods in different geographical areas even within countries speaking the same language. Our work is widely based on the Spanish and Portuguese cases

The project Designing a knowledge management system for library System of the Andes University was created to solve the needing to identified and stored critical knowledge held by the organization, and also it may be accessed on a quick and easy way. The project was made followed the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation). Among the processes that are designed to carry out the project are: identification of the assets of the Library System, for which Intelect Model was applied, then there is the development of an inventory of knowledge, then builds on the knowledge management model Nonaka and Takeuchi and is structured according to the Library System, to facilitate transformation of tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge, finally is proposed Intranet design that will help the exchange of knowledge within the organization. The project aims to harness the intangible stock which has the System Libraries in the knowledge of its staff, in order to achieve quality in all procedures, which will be carried out by officers increasingly engaged and motivated, with a system that allows them to highlight best practices and learn from mistakes made in a consistent manner. But it is recommended that the project will have regular meetings, in which explain its purpose and in turn motivate all staff, it is also important to into account, that knowledge must be updated periodically to that the organization has always critical to understanding the embodiment of different work activities, the implementation of these recommendations ensure project success.

This paper shows the experience of using AGROVOC thesaurus as a basis and model of information and knowledge organization and domain representation applied to soybean and sugar cane agricultural intensification in Brazil. A textual corpus of about 2,5 million of words was compiled and candidate terms extracted automatically for creating an initial hierarchical conceptual map, then compared to AGROVOC terms. The results show the importance of AGROVOC as a resource to organize and represent agricultural information and knowledge, as a reference for creating new terminological products on agriculture, and open new possibilities for enrichment of AGROVOC´s Brazilian Portuguese terminologies.

The Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative is the first large-scale attempt at realizing the Semantic Web vision of Tim Berners-Lee. As of September 2011, there are almost 300 knowledge bases linked together and available for public access through both web browsers as well as semantic applications. However, the task of building the links between knowledge basesis still a laborious manual task and as the LOD cloud continues to grow rapidly,the task becomes more daunting. This paper looks at the AGROVOC thesaurus developed and maintained by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO), and how a framework can be developed to semiautomatically discover links between AGROVOC and other knowledge bases on the LOD.

The questions of formation, regulation and management of library information resources in the context of socio and communication processes and formation of knowledge society are considered. The ways for solving the problem of actualization and intellectual access to the array of historical, cultural and scientific information stored in the documental sources of library collections are showed. Comprehensive resolution of efficient processing of multidimensional knowledge array of information sources that are stored in scientific libraries and online library resources are proposed. Technological means and cognitive foundations of its transformation into an organized system of knowledge through new approaches to the use of methods of library science and computer technology are described. The monograph is intended to be used by a wide range of bibliologists and bibliographers, librarians and information specialists, experts in information and communication technologies that are involved in the process of knowledge circulation in a society.

An application scenario of Semantic Web description standards (i.e. RDF/RDFS and OWL) for knowledge management is presented. A process model of ontology engineering and ontology-based semantic indexing is proposed and concretized using a scenario-based example from the manufacturing industry. Benefits of the described approach are assumed to be more effective and efficient satisfaction of typical information needs, which leads to an improvement of process quality of information retrieval- and generic business processes.

Libraries, Archives, Museums and Galleries are all together bound to cross a very turbulent period in the advent of a golden age. The debate over the convergence of these fields landed for the first time on neutral ground when they were coined as memory institutions and invited to collaborate in building common services like World Digital Library, Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe, Access to Cultural Heritage Networks Across Europe, The European Library and Europeana. In the light of the unfolding economic situation, the struggle to keep a valid social profile is often taken on the grounds of collaboration were enough resources are attracted in order to keep balance and even progress. The future presents a leverage point that should not be ignored or treated lightly: building the informational context through open and standard compliant technologies. LAMG specialists claim to have switched to a functional paradigm that puts the user needs as the core business. Doing so is to prepare for the future and the future is one where the resources are aggregated and linked in what we call today Semantic Web. Here we take into consideration the building blocks of this future starting from what we have, and advancing towards an inclusive picture where we are together. Open standards, open technologies, and open licenses are the key components of this space for collaboration among us. We should be swift in embracing them as our users have done this already.

The aim of this work is, through comparative analysis, to verify if the theoretical and methodological bases used in the construction of conceptual thesauri can contribute to the conceptual development of foundational ontologies, pointing out the existing conceptual thesauri elements that must be observed in the foundational ontology construction. The study is based on the analysis of theoretical and methodological bases used in the construction of conceptual models of conceptual thesaurus, the Concept Theory of Ingetraut Dahlberg, Faceted Classification Theory of Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, in Library and Information Science, and foundational ontologies, from the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO-A), developed by Giancarlo Guizzardi, which is based on principles of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences to build its conceptual model based on objects (endurants). It is concluded that Library and Information Science has theoretical and methodological bases to build terminological instruments, like conceptual thesaurus, which constitutes a solid knowledge framework that can be created to allow an independent theory about a domain. The foundational ontologies have strong subsidies from Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences, allowing the real structure of a domain is represented in a consistent manner, being the holder of a semantic representation based on the real world, restricting their interpretations of concepts. The foundational ontologies allow the construction of a theory about the field, allowing to test and validate a conceptual model. It is understood that this study helps to make explicit the largest number of differences than similarities between these models and, consequently, between the instruments themselves.

Research based on the application of knowledge organization systems, particularly on the faceted classification logic (or dynamic taxonomy), as access to archivist information systems. It illustrates a new open source application for data presentation on the web that offers the user personalized browsing based on the faceted searching paradigm. The application allows you to browse data through various innovative points of view, for example, geographic (with maps), temporal (with time lines) and table visualization.

One of the most popular techniques for identifying knowledge in organizations is knowledge mapping. It can help decision makers to better understand the knowledge flow within the organizations. Mapping organizations knowledge, especially in research institutes, has attracted much attention from senior managements in recent years. Libraries, among the most important parts of research institutes, have a significant role in scientific advances. Due to this important role, many knowledge operations take place in collaboration with libraries. All of library transactions including users borrowing and returning logs and also books metadata are recorded in library information systems. Users' transaction logs are rich resources to extract information about knowledge operations in an organization. In this paper we propose a new methodology for drawing knowledge map, based on library information system logs. Our proposed methodology contains five steps including data collection and making data warehouse, data preprocessing and refinement, applying knowledge mapping algorithm for extracting input data for mapping, drawing knowledge map and finally analyzing the results. According to this methodology, we have drawn the IRANDOC knowledge map emphasizing interdisciplinary domains based on library information system users’ logs. IRANDOC knowledge map shows most studied subjects and also interrelation between them which are invaluable source of knowledge for IRANDOC decision makers in order to initiate research projects.

This session examines the challenging task of increasing the discoverability and access to subscription e-book and other e-resource collections. It will consider tools, workflows, best practices and standards for cataloguing and maintaining library e-resource collections. Specific topics will include library-specific workflows, challenges and possible solutions for working with batch files of e-book records, as well as the collaboration among the British Columbia cataloguing community on the Legislative Library of British Columbia Electronic Resource MARC Records Project.

Scientific journals: standards, identifiers et al. National and international standards about journals. ISO standards: ISO 8: journals, ISO 215: papers (these course), ISO 18: table of contents, ISO 3297: ISSN, ISO 690: bibliographic references, ISO 2014: dates, ISO 3166: country codes, ISO 8601: Representation of dates and times. ISO 26324: DOI (DRM). Another standards and guides: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (Vancouver, ICMJE). Unique identifiers: main characteristics. ISSN, DOI. Science and information channels today. Editor's new responsibilities: digital publishing, new production systems, new workflows, digital preservation problems. Papers flowchart: 1) Record receipt of manuscripts for review; 2) Production: Send the manuscript at least to two referees; 3) Publishing: solve format problems, final cut, distribution and print. Citation styles: APA, MLA, CSE, Chicago. Conclusions: standards and information access: OAI, Web 2.0.

Scientific journals: Guidelines and evaluation. Instructions for Authors. Guidelines for manuscript submission. Checklist for preparation of author's instructions (ISO 215). Peer review. Purpose, methodology. Council of Science Editors (CSE): sample correspondence for editors. World Association of Medical Editors (WAME): resources for editors, policies, issues. Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): promoting integrity in research publication. Social networks and scientific editors organizations: Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), Latindex. Peer review systems: Percy Shelley sends Ozymandias for review: the peer's view. Guidelines for reviewers. The (old) golden rule. Attitude: Leloir. This presentation is intended to assist authors in the presentation of their manuscripts as well as to assist editors and publishers in the drafting of guidelines for their contributors.

Structure of papers. Papers and scientific reports. Types of scientific texts. ISO 215: scheme and contents. The scientific paper structure: ISO 215. Presentation of scientific and technical reports: ISO 5966. Outline of ISO 5966. The OMRC structure. Components: Scope and objectives, methods, results and conclusions. Abstracts: definition, types, main characteristics. Keywords: definition and objectives. Standardization goals. The necessity of standardization respecting with journals and information processing systems.

Using two theories original from the philosophy of language and from the cognitive psychology (the theory of the direct reference and the theory of the ad hoc categories, respectively), the two key principles on which the creation of ontologies leans for the information retrieval are examined critically: the definition of the concepts of a domain of knowledge and the formalization of the relationships between these. The work shows the inherent theoretical problems to these principles.

The aim of this communication is to highlight the importance of multivariate graphic methods applied to Information Science, in general, and Biomedical Information Sciences in particular. The use of bibliometric indicators has been accepted as an essential methodology to assess the scientific activity in any discipline; however, the graphic representation methodology, which should be associated with these indicators, has not acquired the same relevance. Statistical graphic methods are one of the main and simpler tools to represent information. They have great capacity to have an impact on the reader, provide overall and quick information of the data and are useful to the researcher and the librarian as they not only give a general picture of the results, but can suggest new hypotheses. In short, they provide more information about the characteristics and patterns of data that an explanatory text or a simple tabular representation of them. A large part of bibliometric studies mostly uses univariate and bivariate descriptive representations. Multivariate graphical methods are little used and their application limited to the techniques of Principal Component Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Correspondence. In this communication we propose the implementation of the graphical representation BIPLOT for evaluation of scientific activity in the biomedical area universities of Castile and Leon as a graphical method that allows a more easy and detailed representation of the results through the use of simple geometric concepts.

Conceptual models are directly related to knowledge representation and should be capable of representing a context. These models should highlight the relevant objects in the domain, as well as their relationships and attributes, removing of the representation the objects that are not important for its consistency in relation to reality. Library and Information Science has been working on theoretical and methodological bases capable of providing for the construction of conceptual models, and therefore knowledge organization systems such as conceptual thesaurus. In Computer Science, whose focus is the representational possibility of communication between systems, seems to have been in recent years, perceptions that allow the modeling part of a domain with independent theories of a domain, like foundational ontologies, applying philosophical and cognitives theories to this process, providing ontological principles for classification of concepts. The aim of this study is, through comparative analysis, to verify if the theoretical and methodological bases used in the construction of conceptual thesauri can contribute to the conceptual development of foundational ontologies, pointing out the existing conceptual thesauri elements that must be observed in the construction of a foundational ontology. The study is based on the analysis of theoretical and methodological bases used in the construction of conceptual models of conceptual thesaurus, the Concept Theory of Ingetraut Dahlberg, Faceted Classification Theory of Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, in Library and Information Science, and foundational ontologies, from the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO-A), developed by Giancarlo Guizzardi, which is based on principles of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences to build its conceptual model based on objects (endurants). It is concluded that Library and Information Science has theoretical and methodological bases (Concept Theory and Faceted Classification Theory) to build terminological instruments, like conceptual thesaurus, which constitutes a solid knowledge framework that can be created to allow an independent theory about a domain. The foundational ontologies have strong subsidies from Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences, allowing the real structure of a domain is represented in a consistent manner, being the holder of a semantic representation based on the real world, restricting their interpretations of concepts. The foundational ontologies allow the construction of a theory about the field, allowing to test and validate a conceptual model. It is understood that this study helps to make explicit the largest number of differences than similarities between these models and, consequently, between the instruments themselves.

The topic “Linked Open Data“ is pushing more and more into the library sphere. While “Open Data“ is all about the legal status of any kind of data, “Linked Data“ aims at augmenting the interoperability of data by consistently applying (web-)standards. This article begins with an illustration of why “Linked Data“ is relevant to the library world. This is followed by a short introduction to the most important Linked Data standards and some thoughts on how to migrate bibliographic data to these standards. Finally the current activities of the hbz library network concerning this matter are presented as the experimental Linked (Open) Bibliographic Data platform lobid.org and its services lobid-resources and lobid-organisations.

This paper reports on a pilot conducted within Linked Jazz, a project that investigates the potential of Linked Open Data (LOD) technology to enhance discovery and visibility of digital cultural heritage materials. The project explores the applicability of the Friend-Of-A-Friend (FOAF) ontology to digital archives of jazz history to expose relationships among musicians and reveal their community’s network. Finding innovative ways of connecting cultural data and making them searchable in an open discovery environment generates unprecedented opportunities to create new meaning and elicit new streams of interpretation. The project consists of multiple phases and is intended to progress in an iterative and experimental way. The first step was to pilot a method to create a dataset of RDF triples representing jazz artists and their social connections.

Navigating in large repositories is a tedious task for users, even if they are domain experts as it is expected to be in subject repositories. Several knowledge organization schemas have been employed to facilitate access. E-LIS, the international Open Archive for Library and Information Science provides access to a large number of documents in this scientific domain through JITA, a Classification System of 3 main strands and 138 concepts. Being a controlled vocabulary improves precision of retrieval, whilst it helps the submitters enhance the indexing of their documents. There are many options to assist the submitters understand the concepts listed in JITA, such as to add a definition, to use info-graphic techniques or to provide a translation in the submitter’s native language. E-LIS community started improvements in two directions: first to translate JITA and second to make JITA reusable by publishing it as LinkedData. The overall duration of the project was two months and included several discussions between the E-LIS community on linguistic aspects of indexing, encoding issues, and so on. The final product is a SKOSified multilingual version of JITA, which has produced a graphical representation of the schema from a RDF file. JITA is now accessible in ten languages, which represent an important share of the E-LIS collection. The first version of multilingual JITA, named the “JITA Spring of Tulips Edition”, will be published as Linked Data by FAO, UN.

Review of the book "Innovations in Information Retrieval: Perspectives for Theory and Practice" (London: Facet, 2011), edited by A. Foster and P. Rafferty.

In an ideal world all data would be produced using open formats and would be linked directly to other related data on the web. This would give the possi-bility for service providers to set up information systems by mixing and matching data from different distributed repositories. A scenario like this is no science fiction. Nev-ertheless most data (of all kinds) resides in database and repository silos, and efforts to create one stop access to distributed data lack functionalities, robustness or sustain-ability. The CIARD initiative1 is working to make agricultural research information publicly available and accessible to all, by acting on both those issues. Among its actions are advocating and promoting open access, improving applicability and ena-bling effective use of data and information in agricultural research and innovation. In this paper we present the CIARD initiative and concentrate on FAO’s contribution to it. We present the Linked Data approach, the vocabulary editor VocBench, the do-main specific tagger AgroTagger and the RING registry of services and tools.

Born Marc21 format was created to build bibliographic databases and auxiliary records. Less known are its applications to construct directories using the Marc21 Format for Community Information that is based on the bibliographic format. The Marc21 Format for Community Information was selected by the Centro de Producción Audiovisual, Department of Film and Television at the National University of Córdoba for the database "Niawi" designed to be the core of an information system for audiovisual producers in order to promote audiovisual production (film, tv, multimedia) through a regional hub. The specificity of the proposed information system required some changes to the format. However the flexibility of the Marc21 Format for Community Information provided an adequate structure to locate all the required data. The first stage an CDS/ISIS database was used and it was necessary to develop software for data entry and retrieval. The use of a standard format allowed afterwards the implementation of standard library software. Koha 2.2.9 was choosed because it was possible to adapt it to the needs of the information system. Applying a standard format, such as the Marc21 Format for Community Information, has offered several advantages to the project, such as functionality in information retrieval, format flexibility, ease to modify the interface, low cost and others. During the implementation of the format some questions related to the transfer of bibliographic data structures to the representation of different informational objects such as persons or entities, commonly recorded in authority records, began to emerge and require further research on given structures and implicit assumptions inscribed in the data models.

Search with the initial proposal of developing a thesaurus referring revolutions and revolutionary movements occurred in the republican period in the history of Brazil, the thesauri are tools used to control terminological indexing content in some area of ​​knowledge. Before the presentation this tool will make the monograph in the first chapter a brief explanation concerning the historical period in question, and in the second chapter, by reviewing literature librarian, a thorough dissertation on the slopes idealizing of thesauri and their manufacturing processes and in the third and final chapter will be presented the tool, consisting of presentation systematic, alphabetical and graphical.

In the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the need to revamp its popular agriculture vocabulary AGROVOC using Semantic Web knowledge representation standards combined with the need to provide a collaborative environment for development and maintenance purposes, pushed forward the realization of a dedicated AGROVOC thesaurus maintenance tool. With the progressive standardization of the AGROVOC knowledge model, following recent Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) recommendations by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and with the addition of more FAO-maintained vocabularies, the former “AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench” has become a general-purpose framework for thesauri and vocabulary development and is now reborn as “ VocBench”. In this paper, we describe the path which led to its realization and its main features

The paper deals with important aspect like knowledge sharing platforms and tools.

This study is part of our broader research focusing on conceptual query expansion. Our goal is to examine whether current structures of Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOSs) reflect users’ perception of knowledge representation in order to verify under which circumstances the KOSs can ameliorate the query expansion process. For our study we focused on non-expert users using a relational KOS, namely the EUROVOC thesaurus. To test our hypotheses we proceeded with an empirical study during which the participants had to conduct specific searches in the Evonymos Ecological Library database. Our metrics showed that only 15.0% of the submitted terms were unique and that the search terms mainly contained one or two words. Furthermore, 60.5% of the submitted terms were matched to Thesaurus’ terms. We conclude that for conceptual query expansion using a thesaurus the polysemy of words is a serious obstacle, which is hard to deal with because of the limited search words used for each query. This is because the limited search words do not serve for safe conceptual matching both among the search terms and between the search terms and terms from the hierarchy of the Thesaurus. Future research will try to answer whether this problem is solved with the synchronous use of multiple KOSs during the query expansion or with conceptual query clustering techniques.