Ethical aspects in knowledge organization and representation (KOR): a preliminary analysis of values and problems from the international literature of the area.
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2008v13n25p124Keywords:
Knowledge organization and representation, Informational ethics, Information ScienceAbstract
The Information Science reflections have been with almost focused on information access and dissemination aspects, no existing literature about ethical aspects of knowledge organization and representation (KOR). It leads to the need to check out the existence of ethical values - and problems - which can cause impact on this field, since it is supposed that they are not assumed as that, although they are revealed in everydays practice. Therefore and trying to contribute to a further reflection on the lack of literature on ethics in KOR it aimed to analyse the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - JASIST, Journal of Documentation, Knowledge Organization, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, The Indexer and Ethics and Information Technology in the period between 1995 and 2004. The results reveal two complementary dimensions: one concerning diversity and the warrant of specification, which enables proof of the pertinence of the theoretical principles announced by Hudon (1997), Beghtol (2002, 2005) and García Gutiérrez (2002), relatively to a transcultural ethics of mediation that reflects a diversity (fitted with a precision that, many times, passes by the dimension of multilingualism), making use, for such, of tools that may provide cultural warrant to the knowledge representation.Downloads
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