Domain Analysis for Knowledge Organization: Tools for Ontology Extraction

Richard Smiraglia

Chandos Publishing, Jun 15, 2015 - Business & Economics - 116 pages

Domain analysis is the process of studying the actions, knowledge production, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge-base of a community of commonality, such as an academic discipline or a professional community. The products of domain analysis range from controlled vocabularies and other knowledge organization systems, to scientific evidence about the growth and sharing of knowledge and the evolution of communities of discourse and practice.In the field of knowledge organization- both the science and the practice­ domain analysis is the basic research method for identifying the concepts that will be critical building blocks for knowledge organization systems. This book will survey the theoretical rationale for domain analysis, present tutorials in the specific methods of domain analysis, especially with regard to tools for visualizing knowledge domains.

• Focuses on the science and practice of organizing knowledge
• Includes step-by-step instructions to enable the book to be used as a textbook or a manual for researchers

Contents

• Discourse domains and their role in knowledge production dissemination and organization: 1
• Domain analysis as a methodological paradigm in knowledge organization: 19
• Empirical methods for visualizing domains: 41
• Empirical techniques for visualizing domains: 51
• Qualitative analysis Cognitive work analysis: 91
• Conclusions: 97
• Index: 103

About the author

Richard Smiraglia is a Professor in the Knowledge Organization Research Group at the iSchool, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. He has defined the meaning of "a work" empirically, and has revealed the ubiquitous phenomenon of instantiation among information objects. Recent work includes empirical analysis of social classification, and epistemological analysis of the role of authorship in bibliographic tradition. His "Idea Collider'' research team is working on a unified theory of knowledge. An Associate Researcher of the eHumanities Group, Amsterdam, he is a collaborating member of the Knowledge Space Lab effort to map the evolution of knowledge in Wikipedia. He holds a PhD (1992) from the University of Chicago. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Knowledge Organization.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Domain Analysis for Knowledge Organization: Tools for Ontology Extraction
• Author: Richard Smiraglia
• Publisher: Chandos Publishing, 2015
• ISBN: 0081001886, 9780081001882
• Length: 116 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Information Management; Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Administration & Management; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General