Books & papers on knowledge representation
Posted by Michael Angeles, Lucent Technologies,
to the SIGIA-L listserv on August 7, 2001
BOOKS & JOURNALS
Explorations in Indexing & Abstracting: Pointing,
Virtue & Power. Brian O'Connor
Draws on intellectual resources
from information theory to MTV to discuss challenges to the indexing
and abstracting field posed by the information and technology explosion,
and presents alternatives for abstracting and indexing information so
that users can actually find it. Looks at the shortcomings of traditional
systems, and uses exercises and case studies to demonstrate the elements
of a patron- specific system. Comment: This is a short, but excellent
book discussing the intellectual work of representing knowledge, the
core activity in indexing for information retrieval.
Guidelines
for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices (NISO TR-02-1997).
James D. Anderson
This new NISO Technical
Report provides expert guidance on designing indexes for every kind
of document. Coverage includes automatic indexing and indexing based
on intellectual analysis and the use of controlled vocabularies. A comprehensive
glossary of indexing terms is provided and recommended introductory
text for print and back-of-the-book indexes, database indexes, computer
produced indexes, and electronic search indexes are given. Comment:
The PDF is available for download. Jim is also working on a book at
present on the topic of knowledge representation. I used a draft of
his forthcoming book to prepare a paper on indexing art images. The
NISO report was a precursor and the JASIS article below were precursors
to the forthcoming book.
Journal
of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 45 Number 8
1994.
Special issue on indexing.
Also search through JASIS for indexing articles in the journal and in
conference proceedings if you have access on the ASIS site.
Most articles by Brian O'Connor, Jim Anderson, James Turner and Dagobert
Soergel are relevant. Also, a great selection of books available from
NISO (search for
"indexing").
WHITE PAPERS
NewsEdge white paper: Taxonomies:
The Value of Organized Business Knowledge
CISCO white paper: Building
a Web Vocabulary
ACIA white paper: Extracting
Value from Automated Classification Tools
MONTAGUE INSTITUTE SOURCES
Managing taxonomies strategically
Creating
and Using Business Taxonomies course
Also, look under "taxonomy"
and "taxonomies" on the Montague Institute A
- Z Index page.
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