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In this work are presented the results of a research which was made in the Social Science Area in Mexico in the period 1997-2006, to learn some important features such as its historical development and scientific productivity (R & D) through the volume of documents generated, language of publication, the productivity index chronologically, thematically and by state, the patterns of authorship, and national and international co-authorship, citation and co-citation between publications, institutions and sub-disciplines in science (research fronts), among others, for this purpose using the technique of documentary research: bibliometric analysis. For the use of unidimensional and multidimensional bibliometric indicators of the scientific activity, was taken as a source data base of the Social Science Citation Index from the publisher Insititute for Scientific Information (SCCI-ISI) from 3.125 records were obtained for the scientific production of 1997-2006. It was used the bibliométric analysis module of the SCCI-ISI and the CiteSpace program created by Chaomei Chen professor of the Drexel University, U.S.A. The scientific production in Social Sciences in the studied period represented 8% of the total of the Mexican production, in Humanities was obtained the 1,50% and in Applied Sciences was reached 90,5%, according to estimations made through the Citation Index data bases of the ISI.

This doctoral thesis is about the possibility to put archival data (for example archival descriptions, authority records and so on) directly into semantic web, particularly using a technology called “Topic Maps”. Topic Maps are an ISO standard quite similar to RDF. To show that it's possible to express archival data directly into semantic web, I translated all archival standards (such ISAD, ISAAR, ISDIAH, ISDF) into Topic Maps Constraint Language schemas. TMCL is a standard of the Topic Maps family. What it's important is that you can declare constraints and inference rules to ensure that a topic map holding archival data is compliant to archival standards. So, once shown that is possible expressing archival data into semantic web, which is the main advantage? I think that we can find three advantages in this approach: you can build flexible and extensible information systems you can create import and export as linked data you can merge data of different areas (for example you can merge archival authority records and librarian authority records) For that aim I also created crosswalks between different standards. For example I mapped FRAD with ISAAR. For import and export I created some XSL-T stylesheets to convert EAC and EAD to Topic Maps and I released them as opensource on google code. Lastly I proposed a strong idea to develop flexible information systems (for example a software to manage a digital library or an archival information system such the archival system for national archives). In those systems data wouldn't be stored in a database, but directly in RDF triples or, why not, in a topic map. This allows to extend or change the system without a database change (so you can add or change a descriptive field without touch the database).

Der Themenkomplex „Linked Open Data“ findet zunehmend Einzug in die bibliothekarische Sphäre. Während „Open Data“ sich auf die rechtliche Situtation von Daten aller Couleur bezieht, ist es das Ziel von „Linked Data“, die Interoperabilität von Daten durch einheitliche (Web-)Standards zu verbessern. In diesem Artikel wird zunächst erläutert, warum „Linked Data“ auch für die Bibliothekswelt relevant ist. Daraufhin werden in einer knappen Einführung die wichtigsten Linked Data-Standards vorgestellt sowie einige Gedanken zur Migration von bibliographischen Daten in eben diese Standards skizziert. Zuletzt werden die derzeitigen diesbezüglichen Aktivitäten im hbz-Verbund dargestellt. 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.

Collaboration, an organizational innovation, is now happening to companies to deal with the complexity of their environment. It is a new form of work, based on the logic of partnership. Indeed, the network as a partnership space, is a space where the forces working together to achieve goals difficult to achieve individually. Despite the expansion of collaborative events since the 1980's in the literature within the field of information sciences and communications, we found a lack of consensus around the term "collaboration". The latter is also subject to an amalgam with other concepts such as cooperation, while their scope of practice is different. As a matter of fact, we consider a term poorly treated, resented and abused. Therefore, this article points out, from a clarification of various aspects of collaboration, its role in knowledge creation. In practice, the collaboration also raises problems of an informational and organizational is answered in the form of a collaborative group repository. The goal is to develop ownership of good collaborative practices to exploit the full potential of the network.

Investiga a interface teórico-prática entre terminologia, ontologia filosófica, ontologia computacional e linguística documentária e os subsídios que oferecem para a construção de informações documentárias. Foram estabelecidos como objetivos específicos, a análise das condições de produção, desenvolvimento, implementação, uso e integração de ontologias com base no referencial teórico da ciência da informação; a investigação sobre a contribuição das ontologias para o desenvolvimento de tesauros e vice-versa; a discussão acerca do fundamento filosófico da aplicação de ontologias com base no estudo das categorias ontológicas presentes na filosofia clássica e nas propostas contemporâneas. Defende que a compreensão das ontologias por meio da teoria comunicativa da terminologia colabora para a organização de um acesso menos quantitativo (sintático) e mais qualitativo (semântico) à informação. Observa que, conquanto compartilhem alguns objetivos comuns, ainda há pouco diálogo entre a ciência da informação (e, no seu interior, a linguística documentária) e a ciência da computação. Defende que as ontologias concretas e as ontologias filosóficas não são eventos completamente independentes que guardam entre si apenas a similaridade de denominação e constata que a discussão sobre categorias e categorização na ciência da computação, nem sempre possui a ênfase que recebe na ciência da informação no âmbito dos estudos sobre representação do conhecimento. A abordagem do rizoma, de Deleuze e Guattari, foi tratada como provocadora de reflexões sobre a validade do modelo hierárquico arborescente e sobre as possibilidades de sua ampliação. Conclui que a construção de ontologias não pode prescindir do tratamento terminológico-conceitual, como compreendido pela terminologia e pela ciência da informação, acumulado nos referenciais teóricos e nas metodologias para construção de linguagens documentárias e que, por outro lado, a construção de linguagens documentárias mais flexíveis não pode ignorar o modelo de representação das ontologias, com mais predisposição para a formalização e para a interoperabilidade. Investigates theoretical and practical interfaces between terminology, philosophical ontology, computational ontology and documentary linguistics and the subsidies that they offer for the construction of documentary information. It was established as specific objectives, the analysis of the production, development, implementation and use of ontologies based on the information science theories, the research on the contribution of ontologies for the development of thesauri and vice versa and the discussion of the philosophical foundation of the application of ontologies based on the study of ontological categories present in classical philosophy and in the contemporary proposals. It argues that the understanding of ontologies through the communicative theory of terminology contributes to the organization of a less quantitative access (syntactic) and more qualitative (semantic) of information. Notes that, in spite of sharing some common goals, there is little dialogue between the information science (and, inside it, the documentary linguistics) and computer science. It argues that the computational and philosophical ontologies are not completely independent events, which have among themselves only the similarity of name, and notes that the discussion of categories and categorization in computer science, does not always have the emphasis it receives in information science in studies on knowledge representation. The approach of Deleuze and Guattari\'s rhizome, was treated as instigator of reflections on the validity of the hierarchical tree model structure and the possibilities of its expansion. It concludes that the construction of ontologies can not ignore the terminological and conceptual analysis, as it\'s understood by the terminology and by the information science accumulated in the theoretical and methodological basis for the construction of indexing languages and, on the other hand, the construction of flexible indexing languages can not ignore the representational model of ontologies which are more capable for formalization and interoperability.

Technological advancement has ushered in a great change in the knowledge economic sector. The way people communicate, and in the process of information collection, organization and dissemination are crucial. The right information is to be provided to the right customer (users) at the right time in a customized, personalized, and collaborative way which is imperative for the information professional. The role of the library is crucial in developing the intellect and also for the success of the individuals and institutions that they serve; responding to these changes. The web 2.0 movement emerged as a response to the modern means for upgrading the libraries into more user-centered systems in the present library marketing scenario.The paper describes marketing library services from user perspectives by applying social networking tools on the green road of marketing library and information services. The paper also demarcates marketing strategy 2.0 plan for implementing social networking tools effectively in the library and information services.

This work is about role of topic maps in scope of indexing languages. Also, it show possibilities about how consider topic maps in relation with computational linguistic.

Brief it traveled through by the current databases that offer bibliometric indicators on the current status of Colombia in biomedical matter.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Ciência da Informação, 2010. A presente pesquisa estuda os sistemas de organização do conhecimento e a relação com as bases teóricas utilizadas na construção de tesauros, taxonomias, ontologias e sistemas de classificação encontradas na literatura da área de Ciência da Informação. Para tal estudo, utiliza-se a metodologia de revisão de literatura, além de pesquisa nas bases de dados da área, a fim de investigar a produção bibliográfica sobre o tema, de 1998 até junho de 2009. É realizada revisão bibliográfica na área de organização e representação do conhecimento, especificamente relacionada com o desenvolvimento de tesauros, taxonomias, ontologias e sistemas de classificação. Identifica um caminho teórico comum para ser percorrido na construção dos sistemas de organização do conhecimento passando pela teoria da classificação, teoria do conceito, os relacionamentos entre conceitos e os princípios da Linguística e Terminologia. A partir de amostra representativa da produção bibliográfica sobre o tema, faz-se a análise nas suas características extrínsecas e intrínsecas. As primeiras, relativas à forma, incluem ano de publicação, autores, título, publicação e palavras-chave. As características intrínsecas abrangem a análise de conteúdo dos documentos, respeitando a fundamentação teórica abordada na revisão de literatura. Conclui-se que os tesauros e os sistemas de classificação são os mais citados na literatura sobre sistemas de organização do conhecimento, inclusive servindo de referência teórica para o desenvolvimento desses sistemas. Apesar de contar com essa base teórica proveniente dos estudos sobre tesauros e classificações com normas e padrões relativos a esses dois sistemas reconhecidos internacionalmente, evidencia-se a necessidade da consolidação de padrões comuns para o desenvolvimento dos diferentes tipos de SOC, na área de Ciência da Informação. Aponta-se para a necessidade de congregar os interesses multidisciplinares pela convergência de objetivos e, com isso, gerar melhores práticas de organização e representação do conhecimento. ________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT This research studies the knowledge organization systems (KOS) related to theories to build thesaurus, taxonomies, ontologies and classification systems in the literature field of Information Science. It uses the methodology of literature review and a research on the same field databases in order to investigate the bibliographic production about the theme, from 1998 up to July 2009. A bibliographic research about knowledge organization and representation is carried out, specifically related to the development of thesaurus, taxonomies, ontologies and classification systems. It identifies the same theoretical way to build KOS through the classification theory, concept theory, the relationship between the concepts and the foundation of Linguistics and Terminology. Extrinsic and intrinsic characteristics were analysed from the representative sample of the bibliographic production about KOS. The extrinsic analysis is relative to form aspects, including the publication year, authors, title, publication and keywords. The intrinsic analysis relates to content aspects through the subject analysis of the documents following the theoretical foundations. The last chapter verifies that the thesaurus and classification systems are the most quoted in the literature about KOS, being a theoretical reference to the development of these systems based on the international standards and rules. It highlights the importance of consolidating common standards to build different types of KOS in the field of Information Science and shows the need of gathering the multidisciplinary interests linked by the same goals and also getting better practices in the knowledge organization and representation.

Workflow Mining is a quite new and unknown technology. Many people do not know how large its area of application and how powerful its possibilities are. There are still open questions and discrepancies, which could not be solved by existing works. This thesis shows the basics and gives an overview over the state of the art. Such an overview misses until now. A selection of works by different authors is being summarized, Including recognition of anomalies, implicit dependencies and methods to visualize the produced model in a better way. All known procedures have their weaknesses and that's why criteria are introduced to compare their different procedures and to score their pros and cons. The topic security is also not left blank.

Social tagging aims to generate folksonomies through the users’ collaboration and activation. This paper is motivated by the trend of several libraries to adopt social tagging functionalities and presents a tag analysis study aiming to exploit a social tag collection for the benefit of the subject description of an academic library material. In this context, cataloguers are interviewed to assess the semantic value of the concepts expressed by the set of social tags and discuss the possibility of their incorporation in the well-formed and structured library authority file.

Slighty altered and updated version of the well-known textbook.

Teachers and studentes employ the printed textbooks using advance tools but are not always available. Often they have no organizers schemes and search tools; if present they are sometimes inadequate or incomplete. The structure of table of content, conceptual representation of contents, criteria for indexes construction, specialized language treatment, are considered at this contribution.We propose a review to authors and publishers of these issues from the perspective of cognitive psicology in the context of information literacy.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is recognized as an information and knowledge-base organization. FAO's activities comprise four main areas which are closely related to various aspects of information and knowledge: capture and analyze, disseminate and share, localize and provide. The goal of developing and maintaining tools for information and knowledge management is attributed to the Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension (OEK) of FAO. One of the most important resources for covering the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture domain is the AGROVOC thesaurus, which evolved into a semantic system in order to provide ontology services. This newly reengineered system is called the “AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench (ACSW)”. This article analyzes the different knowledge productions modes for the traditional AGROVOC and the new ACSW system: mode I assimilate to the traditional AGROVOC Thesaurus management and mode II to the ACSW system.

AGROVOC is a multilingual structured thesaurus for the agricultural domain, which is owned and maintained by an international community of Agricultural Research Information Institutions. AGROVOC is used all over the world by researchers, librarians, information managers and others, for indexing, retrieving, and organizing data in Agricultural Information Systems. It currently includes 579523 terms in 19 different languages.

The paper presents a system for customized metadata facility adapted to expose domain specific metadata along with language attributes. Quality metadata is crucial for efficient information retrieval. Use of standard and common vocabulary leads to normalization of differences that arise due geographic, cultural, domain specific environments even amongst digital libraries with same or similar collection scopes. The present work demonstrates implementation of language attributes (which is missing in the official version of DSpace) for metadata elements. As a case study we demonstrate the AGRIS (Agricultural Information System) application profile customized for metadata in DSpace repositories. It serves as a full text content management platform for the agricultural community and especially the languagewise disparate and geographically distributed AGRIS network through enriched domain metadata in standard format for the description, management and better metadata sharing.

The latest changes in the information environment have brought out the outstanding existence of new sources, tools and technologies, whose main aim is the management, the exploitation and the distribution of libraries’ and archives’ content. The creation of digital archives and libraries contributes to this fact. The main goal of this poster is to show the importance for an information organization (particularly an archive) to create a sophisticated “map of knowledge” relevant to its content. This map should contain the entities and the activities relevant to organization activity and the connections between them, enabling the archive service to recognize what it knows and possesses, and assure that everything it knows, is accurate, accessible for all, open access publishing and useful. A map of organization’s subject matter would direct researchers and end users to archival collections, documents and so on. Furthermore, the greatest challenge that an archivist faces, is to open the vast and diverse documentation in the archives and the complex knowledge about it, so that a broad and highly manifold public might find its needs. As an information scientist grapples with the complications, pitfalls and technological hurdles, it becomes obvious that these challenges are universal, and the methods and practices of dealing with them are applicable over a broad spectrum of organizations and spheres of knowledge. Consequently, the tools, the tasks, the planning, the infrastructures and the coordination of organizing and disseminating content in the epoch of democratization of information services is the main scope of this presentation.

A concept map or a mental map (as of now, we'll use the first as a unifying term) is a class diagram that tries to represent graphically a conceptual system components as well as relations between them. By conceptual system we understand at least two things: (a), any more or less coherent and organized set of ideas within a larger or more complex theory, for example, the theory of evolution; (b), any set of entities and their relationships, for example, firms in a given country. Conceptual maps do not have any restricted area, so that any aspect of the real world or the conceptual world is likely to be represented in a concept map. The complexity of the system that must be represented either sets any entry restriction: we cannot represent a conceptual map a theory as simple as the regulations governing use of a municipal swimming pool (which does not offend anyone in the world of swimming) or as complex as the one mentioned before.

FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, has the global goal to defeat hunger and eliminate poverty. One of its core functions is the generation,dissemination and application of information and knowledge. Since 2000, the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)activity in FAO’s Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division has promoted the use of Semantic Web standards to improve information sharing within a global network of research institutes and related partner organizations. The strategy emphasizes the use of simple descriptive metadata, thesauri, and ontologies for integrating access to information from a wide range of sources for both scientific and non-expert audiences. An early adopter of Semantic Web technology, the AIMS strategy is evolving to help information providers in nineteen language areas use modern Linked Data methods to improve the quality of life in developing rural areas, home to seventy percent of the world’s poor and hungry people

This paper analyzes several problems found in the selection of Spanish journals that constitute the collection of specialized publications about Latin American Studies in the ISOC database (CSIC), the LATINDEX system of information on journals and REDIAL portals. The difficulties are related to two trends in the evolution of scientific publication habits. On the one hand, the growing interest of Latin American authors to publish their work in Spanish journals and creating collaborative networks that some publications favor that non-specialized publications provide a significant number of articles on this geographical area. Secondly, the development of direct electronic edition also favors this interrelationship.

ACOLIT is an authority list of catholic authors (persons or corporate bodies) and of liturgical and religious anonymus works. ACOLIT formulates catalogue entries on the basis of RICA, but also takes into account the Norme per il catalogo degli stampati of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, the AACR2R, the Regeln für die alphabetische Katalogisierung (RAK), the Reglas de catalogación, and the recommendations of IFLA. Three volumes have already been published: Bible, Catholic Church, Roman Curia, Papal State, Vatican, Popes and Antipopes (1997); Catholic religious orders (2000); Liturgical works (2003). The fourth volume is devoted to Fathers of the Church and to Western ecclesiastical Writers (II-XIII centuries). Our point of departure for this authority list are the indices in Migne Patrologia Latina, compared with indices of other authoritatives directories paper and on line (p.e., Personennamen des Mittelalters, Bibliotheca sanctorum, BISLAM: Bibliotheca scriptorum Latinorum medii recentiorisque aevi, Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, VIAF). The principal lemma is the Italian form according to the language of the catalogue. The principal entry is followed by variants. For the realization of this authority list we, the editors, had to expend considerable energy in the effort to establish homogeneous forms using bibliographical sources and directories: we realize we may not have always succeeded and would be happy to receive suggestion or further information.

Social Sciences have a relevant importance, because they assist individuals to make sense of the social world and to situate their ideas, fears, interests, values ​​and relationships at the center of the social processes they reflect and configure. However, a diagnosis made in the main doctoral programs of the Pedagogical Sciences in Cuba revealed deficiencies and deficiencies that led to the formulation of the scientific problem of the present investigation: insufficiencies in the process of interpretation of the social reality, in relation to its qualitative and complex nature, which limits the scientific performance of professionals. The object of the research is, therefore, the scientific research process of the Social Sciences and its field of action: the dynamics of information processing in the Social Sciences research process. The main research results are: a model of the dynamics of information processing in social investigations, which becomes an integrative didactic method for such processing, as a theoretical contribution, and a system of methodological procedures for processing information in the social investigations, as a practical contribution. It is revealed as essential regularity, the integrating logic between the understanding of the validity and reliability of social information and the systematization of the synthesis and the concretion of this information, consistent with a qualitative and quantitative processing of it. The pertinence and scientific feasibility of the research results was assessed satisfactorily through a consultation with experts and the corroboration of the partial application of the system of methodological procedures.

The AGROVOC is a multilingual structured thesaurus in the agricultural domain. It has already been mapped with several vocabularies, for example AGROVOC-CAT, AGROVOC-NALT , AGROVOC-SWD. Although these vocabularies already contained a good portion of non-preferred terms, the terms are collected under the literary warrant and institutional warrant principles; which means vocabularies were collected based on the documents and publications rather than user‟s queries. It is still very common that end users would use different terms to express the same concept. In light of above discussion, we need to bridge these vocabularies and the users‟ terms Background

A vocabulary stores words, synonyms, word sense definitions (i.e. glosses), relations between word senses and concepts; such a vocabulary is generally referred to as the Controlled Vocabulary (CV) if choice or selections of terms are done by domain specialists. A facet is a distinct and dimensional feature of a concept or a term that allows taxonomy, ontology or controlled vocabulary to be viewed or ordered in multiple ways, rather than in a single way. The facet is also clearly de¯ned, mutually exclusive, and composed by collectively exhaustive aspects, properties or characteristics of a domain. For example, a collection of rice might be represented using a name facet, place facet etc. In our case, we build a facet for each concept considering more general concepts (broader terms), less general concepts (narrow terms) or related concepts (related terms) that is to be called concept facet (CF). We use these CF's for mapping two controlled vocabularies. This methodology is based on hidden semantic matching which is diferent from the orthodox view of matching.

Categorization is one of the fundamental processes on the practices of library and information sciences (LIS). The concept comes as an input from this process, which makes possible the human interaction with the universe, and the generation of knowledge. Our target is to describe, through a theoretical study, the relevance of conceptual formation to the knowledge organization at LIS.

Communication makes use of images and symbols to represent information. The first suggestion of information visualization will be the evidence of maps, graphs and symbols as images that represent information used in communication illustration of speech. In the context of Information Science, and specifically in the digital library, researching information allows further specification but also requires more guidance, due to the quantity and diversity of information.

This paper presents the creation of the bilingual polythematic Thesaurus of Scientific Terms, which was developed in the framework of the Horizontal Action for Hellenic Academic Libraries Link.

Kipp and Campbell (2006) examined tags assigned to the same URL in del.icio.us and determined that MDS and frequency graphs showed clusters of related terms as well as divergences between synonyms. Professional indexers too exhibit convergence and divergence in indexing behaviour, which has been measured in inter-indexer consistency studies. Leonard (1977) and Markey (1984) examined the results of multiple inter-indexer consistency studies examining not only the levels of inconsistency which varied widely but also the level of indexing exhaustivity (number of terms assigned to each document), method of collecting indexing data and vocabulary size. The majority of inter-indexer consistency studies show high levels of inconsistency between indexers (Leonard 1977; Markey 1984). While inter-indexer consistency studies have traditionally compared the indexing terms used by a small group of indexers, it is possible to adapt some of the more common measures to be used with large groups of indexers. A number of measures were examined in this study to determine which measures provide the most ability to distinguish between different indexers. This study used Salton's Cosine measure, the Jaccard measure--also known as Hooper and Rolling's measures (Markey 1984), Wolfram and Olsen's Inter-indexer Consistency Density (Wolfram and Olsen 2007) and a Pairwise Jaccard measure (compares all indexers to each other without the need for a centroid or known good set of index terms). This study is part of a larger study examining measures of convergence and divergence in tagging systems. One goal of the larger study is to examine different ways of analysing tag data to see which methods provide the most useful analyses of the structures which develop in tagging. By calculating a number of different inter-indexer consistency measures it may be possible to make distinctions between tag lists to provide predictive analysis of tagging patterns.

A vocabulary stores words, synonyms, word sense definitions (i.e. glosses), relations between word senses and concepts; such a vocabulary is generally referred to as the Controlled Vocabulary if choice or selections of terms are done by domain specialists. In our case, we create and match two controlled vocabularies by using their concept facet. This methodology is based on semantic matching which is different from the orthodox view of matching.

This study has the objective to present an intersection proposal among the master degree research subjects of the authors of paper: 1) taxonomy, 2) folksonomy, 3) accessibility and 4) usability, in the field of the knowledge organization. In the context of information science, the classification theory with Ranganathan and the concept theory, developed by Dahlberg by principles of the terminology theory, provide the theoretical and methodological base to support the "unit of representation" issue. The theoretical-methodological grounding to identify the mentioned intersection is based in Vickery’s thought that affirms the importance of the knowledge representation and arrangement in computational environments. The information recovery systems provide access to information contents that must happen in physical and also intellectual way. In that context, the instruments such as the taxonomy and the folksonomy are considered, which developed through attributes of accessibility can contribute for the effective use. From this, it still discuss the notion of usability in the field of the organization and information use.

Viewing the Web capacity for disseminate and share information, was created a virtual environment dedicated to the community interested in Information Science. In this space, called InfoBCI (available at: ), articles published in national journals are indexed using a controlled vocabulary suggested for organization library and information science holdings and open a space for comments about the publications, however, we noticed that the terms summarized not being effective in representation of the contents. In this context, part of a study for the determination of a controlled vocabulary appropriate organization and sharing of scientific information, explored as issue the use and importance of this instrument of representation, introducing some relevant issues about the establishment or adoption of readymade indices in the organization of information, even comparing it to the list of issues adopted in the blog with others focused on Information Science.

Recording bibliographic data is a cultural practice used in different situations related to the use of texts, such as the bibliography and cataloging. These practical activities are not neutral, but are based on interpretive processes which apply pre-established rules and cultural conventions that relate to different bibliographic description elements within an extensive network of cultural contexts in which underlying meanings are inscribed. Author or authorship, one of the primary attributes used to identify and contextualize a work, is a complex cultural category that covers different manifestations related to a wide range of social practices that set responsibilities between a natural or ideal person and discourse expressed through the text of the work.

Analysis about the scientific productin in topics of health in Latin America

Differences between transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in information science.

This is a well-written introduction to ontologies and semantic techniques that can be read by everyone interested in the field (not only by librarians as implied by the subtitle).

This presentation deals with recent developments concerning the classification systems used in the union catalogue of the Austrian Library Network.

The presentation discusses emerging services for providing controlled terminologies and interoperability between them, the role of the High-Level Thesaurus (HILT) project, and the application of Semantic Web technologies. HILT uses the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) as a terminology mapping spine or switching language between different monolingual (English) subject vocabularies. Pilot services offered by HILT include disambiguation of terms suggested by end-users, spell-checking of user terms, improving the precision of item-level subject searching by suggesting appropriate terms, and selecting catalogues for searching where the collection has subject strengths matching the user’s search strategy. Examples from the Scottish Collections Network (SCONE) and the Intute service are given.

Bioinformatics manages the information that has been gathered in databases since the advent of the molecular biology technological revolution. The successful research is based in interpretations of that information that can be accessed and managed computationally, which is a difficult task. An attempt to solve that problem is to use ontologies. Ontologies are computational formalisations of the knowledge about a given domain, allowing computers to manage the information in a semantic level. In medical informatics, ontologies have been used for a longer period of time to produce controlled lexicons for coding schemes. Bio-ontologies define the basic terms and relations in biological domains and are being used among others, as community reference, as the basis for interoperability between systems, and for search, integration and exchange of biological data. The most successful ontologies applied in Bioinformatics are the ones in the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) project. At the same time, the Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a official proposal for ontologies implementation in the semantic web. In this article, we review the current position in bio-ontologies. We review this trend and what benefits it might bring to ontologies and their use within biomedicine.

ARIS (Archive of RIS Department of ISPRA) has been realized in order to record the technical and scientific documentation in electronic format, supporting the activity of RIS Department through the management of the flows documents, predisposed them to carry out the institutional tasks. The ARIS archive allows access to the recorded users, because the great part of the documentation of the Department is characterized from the confidentiality, dealing with radiation safety, transport safety and waste management. ARIS is based on the open source software KnowledgeTree, already used in ISPRA. It is structured in visible and accessible public areas to all users, and in limited and restricted areas on the base of the activities, visible and accessible only to the users working on its specific tasks. ARIS manages diversified permissions for the users, under the profile of the authorizations to the operations that can be carried out on the document (recording, correction, movement, cancellation). The system has the following characteristics: articulated flexible structure in main folders and small folders that can be added or modified by the activities; it establishes for every kind of document the number and the type of metadata (attributes) necessary for its description; various modalities of searching using metadata on the document full-text (simple search and advanced search, exploration by folders, type of document, attribute); it maintains trace for every document or the carried out actions from the users or the file consecutive versions deposited in the archive.

This article propose a new application of content metadata to increase the relevante and precision in web searching. The controled vocabularies used is based in LCSH for indexing but used as descriptors, breaking the precoordinated strings and establishing their equivalence with the UDC. Many reasons are exposed to justify their use. Also there are many exemples to explain the LCSH as they are usually used and the way that this system works. This proposal is based in the characteristics of RDF and Dublin Core languages as structures elements of Semantic Web.

The research is a pilot project aiming to develop a prototype ontology for plant production using Thai rice as a case study. It is expected that the development ontology will be a prototype model for others efforts aimed to develop plant production ontology in the future. This rice production ontology is created from scratch using know ontological development processes, but it is the first of its kind based on a specific crop.

En: IX Congreso ISKO-España (Valencia, 11-13 de marzo de 2009): Nuevas perspectivas para la difusión y organización del conocimiento. Actas del Congreso. Valencia: UPV, vol 2, pp. 832-845., [EN] This communication analyzes the use of tagging on sites such as blogs, digging services and social bookmarkings, by library and information science professionals. The analysis results of this type of resources are compared with the terms included into a specialized thesaurus in this area. By this comparative study, the author systematizes which are the contributions of the free tagging in front of the traditional skills on content analysis. The thesauri can make good use of the folksonomies like a high quality source for updating and expanding the terminological scope. This aim must be considered a priority if a central role for thesauri in the full-text search systems is pretended in an immediate future, [ES] Se analiza el uso de etiquetas o tags en los blogs, servicios de promoción social de noticias y marcadores sociales, por parte de profesionales del campo de la Biblioteconomía y la Documentación. Los datos obtenidos en varios ejemplos de este tipo de recursos se comparan con los términos incluidos en un tesauro especializado de este mismo ámbito. A través de esta comparación se sistematizan cuáles son las aportaciones del etiquetado libre frente a las herramientas tradicionales. Los tesauros pueden aprovechar las folksonomías como una fuente de gran calidad para actualizar y ampliar su cobertura terminológica. Este objetivo debe considerarse prioritario si se quiere que los tesauros puedan representar un papel en el futuro inmediato en los sistemas de recuperación sobre texto completo.

64 p., Libro Electrónico, Technology Watch Report which describes the concept. The document is divided into four main chapters. The first defines and analyzes the concept of technological surveillance. The second chapter examines the methodology and design for the good implementation of a technology watch service. The third chapter talks about information and its role in the company and finally a description of the various sources of information. It includes an extensive bibliography., Informe sobre vigilancia tecnológica. El documento se divide en cuatro capítulos principales. El primero define y analiza el concepto de vigilancia tecnológica. El segundo capítulo examina la metodología y diseño para una correcta implementación de un servicio de vigilancia tecnológica. El tercer capítulo trata sobre la información y su función en las empresas, describiendo numerosas fuentes de información. Incluye una amplia bibliografía., Contenidos: 1: Presentación. 2: Definición y conceptos. 3: Metodología y diseño ¿por dónde empezamos? 4: La información y la empresa. 5: Las fuentes de información. 6: Las patentes. 7: Portales, software, buscadores y otras herramientas. 8: Análisis de la información recuperada. 9: Vigilancia tecnológica 2.0. 10: Bibliografía

This report outlines the proposal for restructuring Scientific Names and Common Names of Organisms in AGROVOC. The main reason for this is that during indexing somebody may decide to tag a document with the scientific name while somebody else may decide to tag it with the common name.The right approach would be to have an indexing system which does not use terms for indexing but rather a unique reference to a concept.

The implementation of semantic web address the current represents a paradigm shift, as it has to be passed from a web-based and natural language created in a structured and organized web, where content will be semantically labeled the main element. This will represent a new philosophy and way of working, as the development and creation of content for this website require a great deal of effort. This is the point where they can speak human language technologies to provide mechanisms and tools to assist the implementation and expansion of this new paradigm.

This work checks the methods and techniques applied to software tools and platforms known as semantic wikis. It is carried out a revision of the available bibliography on the subject and the main features provided for the several tools have been pointed out. The analysis let us to confirm the variety of the semantic methods and techniques put into practice, and that the available products, in present-day status, they are not ready to be used by management information systems yet.

A comparative analysis of the treatment that multiculturalism subjects receive in the subject authority files of the main Spanish university and public libraries OPACs is offered. The subject heading assigned to monographs published in Spain in 2007 on Foreigners, Interculturality, Ethnic Minorities and Multiculturalism were studied. Books were selected when those terms appeared in the title or subject fields ofthe bibliographic records. The analyzed catalogues are the Collective Catalogue of theNetwork of University Libraries (REBIUN), the Catalogues of the Public Libraries of the State, the Collective Catalogue of the Network of Libraries of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Catalogue of the National Library of Spain.The results are compared by kind of libraries and it investigates the subject headings list that has been used, with special attention to the CSIC Authorities List and the National Library of Spain Authorities List. The concepts are defined, and the terminological equivalences and authorities entries in English and French are analyzed and theauthorities in each language are investigated. Thereafter, the behavior of these concepts in the subject headings authority files used in the afore mentioned catalogues is studied.Finally, the found occurrences are compared. The results demonstrate that, in general, the treatment of the multiculturalism subjects is unsatisfactory.

In the framework of the creation of national/international platforms of interaction among contents coming from different sectors of cultural heritage, this contribute intended to advance some possible answers to those issues and questions: what is an archive in a traditional or a digital environment? What does it mean context for cultural digital resources? Digital applications create more or less context? Archives and invented archives in the digital world. Archival resources and the rest of Cultural Heritage. The role of traditional users for archives quality. The digital users of archives and some critical issues for digital archives users satisfaction. An happy end: some good practices of archival YOUser interactions

More than ever, update of knowledge and decision making in health care are based on the use of recent scientific information. The effects of the information society’s technological transformation are visible in the most frequent options of clinicians, being common the use of databases, in order to keep pace with the rapid growth of scientific publications. The most frequently used database is MEDLINE. Thus, in order to understand its functioning, especially related to subject searching, the way information is represented and the possible forms of retrieval will be analyzed. In this context, a study carried out to get update information about subject information retrieval will be presented in the detail. The results are interpreted based on recognized effectiveness measures of evaluating information systems.

This thesis reports on the development of a system that enables users of an online public access library catalogue to save resources in a personal account and to attach their own keywords (called tags) to this ressources. This can facilitate organization and later retrieval as well as communication with other users. The principle is called social tagging and has so far been applied to various types of ressources such as internet-bookmarks, pictures, books as well as scientific publications. The theoretical basics of user-generated keywords will be presented with specific focus on their application in libraries. Based on the analysis of the specific situation of the library of the University of Hildesheim the requirements of the planed system will be specified and the system-design and the prototypical implementation will be presented. The system deployed and the resulting system of tags (folksonomy) will be evaluated to study the usefulness of such a system in the context of a local library and to explore potential future applications.