Open AccessKnowledge organization systems and bibliographic records in the state of flux. Hermeneutical foundations of organizational information culture
Author(s) -
Gust von Loh Sonja,
Stock Mechtild,
Stock Wolfgang G.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2009.1450460329
Subject(s) - knowledge management , search engine indexing , organizational culture , object (grammar) , task (project management) , state (computer science) , business , computer science , sociology , political science , public relations , world wide web , management , artificial intelligence , algorithm , economics
Abstract. According to hermeneutical findings, all Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and all indexing terms in bibliographic records are located in the so‐called hermeneutical circle. They are always preliminary and therefore object of permanent change. Understanding is dependent on the fusion of horizons of all involved people (knowledge managers, information architects, and – above all – users). Therefore all these people have to in‐teract on KOS and records maintenance. It is a task of knowledge management in companies, administrations, etc. to create an appropriate organizational information culture.