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[ecrea] CFP: Knowledge Organization and Web. 2.0

Sun Oct 25 23:17:23 GMT 2009



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))

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