Call for papers
Les cahiers du numérique
Knowledge Organization and Web. 2.0: from a
centralized and hierarchical organization to a
social and distributed organisation
Presentation
Man has always tried to organize his
environment, an essential condition for his
understanding of the world and perhaps even for
his own survival. This organizing process, using
categories and classification limited at the
beginning to organizing objects and natural
phenomena, quickly became essential also for
organizing ideas and knowledge. Philosophical
systems of knowledge organization have in turn
inspired bibliographical classificatory
structures for organizing documents and
information created by reflective thought and research.
In information science more generally, and in
archive, library science and museology more
specifically, the importance of organizing
processes is never questioned in spite of the
fact that the information and documentation
environment, within which this organization is
carried out, is changing very rapidly. The
evolution of users' information needs,
expectations and behaviour, the powerful
technology which has allowed for the building of
high-performance search engines, the design of
interactive, dynamic and user-friendly
organizing tools all call for the re-examination
and adjustment of goals, procedures and tools.
More recently, technological progress resulting
from Web. 2.0. has contributed to the
enhancement of sociotechnical and cultural usages.
This thematic issue of Les Cahiers du Numérique
will deal with knowledge organization endeavours
to account for traditional and modern
organization models. It will also study the
relevance of frequently used binary terms
describing antagonistic knowledge organization
models: free/controlled,
hierarchical/distributed, passive/active,
vertical/horizontal, professional/social. It
will finally try to answer three fundamental questions:
1 Where do we come from? We cannot answer this
question without first reviewing knowledge
organization tradition, history, basic objectives and theoretical bases.
2 Where are we currently? To answer this topical
question, we have to look at accounts of
experiments going back to the beginning of the
21st century, to learn about more conceptual and
technological contemporary applications, and to
study proposals of modifications to traditional theories.
3 Where are we going? The third question will
lead to examining the immediate future and to
test a number of so-far unverified hypotheses.
Under the impact of participatory and social
networks, are we witnessing the falling by the
wayside of processes of systematic knowledge and
information organization that have been used for
a very long time? Or are we, on the opposite,
about to take advantage of tradition and
systematization for building and designing
methods and tools capable of adjusting
themselves to the evolution of an ever more
forbidding technological environment?
Chapters on the following themes are welcomed:
-Epistemological and historical foundations
-Categorization theory
-Classification theory
-Document classification and its use in the internet environment
-Automatic classification and categorization
-Faceted structures for knowledge organization
-Structures and relations in knowledge organization
-Language and culture and their impact on knowledge organization
- Knowledge organization paradigms (cognitive, semiotic, linguistic and
computational)
-Social and collaborative classifications
-Knowledge organizing systems and tools and their interoperability
Review Committee
Clément Arsenault, EBSI, Université de Montréal (Canada)
D. Grant Campbell, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Stéphane Chaudiron, GERIICO, Université de Lille 3 (France)
Viviane Couzinet, LRASS, Université de Toulouse (France)
Claudio Gnoli, Université de Rome (Italy)
Michel Gorin, Haute École de Gestion de Genève (Switzerland)
Rebecca Green, OLCL, Library of Congress (USA)
Marc Guichard, INIST-CNRS, Nancy (France)
Michèle Hudon, EBSI, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Fidélia Ibekwe SanJuan, ELICO, Université Lyon 3 (France)
Omar Larouk, ENSSIB (France)
Ia Mclwaine, University College London (UK)
Elaine Ménard, SIS, McGill University (Canada)
Widad Mustafa El Hadi, GERIICO, Université Lille 3 (France)
Ismaïl Timimi, GERIICO, Université de Lille 3 (France)
Khaldoun Zreik, PARAGRAPHE, Université de Paris 8 (France)
The timelines are as follows:
Call for articles: October 2009 Deadline for
submission of papers: December 15 2009 Comments
and decision of review committee: January 30th
2010 Deadline for final version: March 15 2010
Publication: End of May - Beginning of June 2010
For more information on the journal itself: http://lcn.revuesonline.com/
Guidelines for authors:
-Proposal are to be sent to both Widad Mustafa
El Hadi and Michèle Hudon (see contacts below)
-Contribution should conform to the guidelines
available on the journal's website:
http://lcn.revuesonline.com/ (or by request
from (lcn /at/ lavoisier.fr)) -Chapters should not
exceed 30 pages including references.
-Proposals are to be sent in Word or RTF format
(cf. guidelines attached) -Final versions are
to be submitted in Word format. -PDF format
will be accepted but orthographic corrections will then have to be
undertaken by the authors and not by Lavoisier.
For information and submission, contact Widad
Mustafa El Hadi ((widad.mustafa /at/ univ-lille3.fr))
and Michèle Hudon ((michele.hudon /at/ umontreal.ca))
