The relation between the domains of information retrieval and knowledge organization in international journals

THE RELATION BETWEEN THE DOMAINS OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND KNOWLEDGE

ORGANIZATION IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALSMsc. Paula Carina de Araújo

Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquisa Filho (UNESP)

Prof. Dr. Edberto FernedaUniversidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquisa Filho (UNESP)

Prof. Dr. José Augusto Chaves GuimarãesUniversidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquisa Filho (UNESP)

The scientific production of a domain determines its degree of development and evolution.

The analysis of a domain is essential to understand it, identify research trends and contribute to the advancement of production and scientific communication.

Research Context

IX Encontro Internacional de Informação, Conhecimento e Ação

The objective of this research is to analyze the themes of the international scientific literature published between 2006 and 2015, about Knowledge Organization and Information Retrieval indexed in Web of Science and Scopus databases.

Objective


This analysis is proposed due to the authors' interest on the scientific production in KO.

This research question arose when attending the course Computational Models of Information Retrieval at the Information Science Graduate Program at Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP).

The analysis of the scientific production of a domain or the relationship between domains allows its knowledge, its construction and interdisciplinary, as Rendón Rojas (2008) stated.

Motivations


Qualitative exploratory study.

Corpus: 100 scientific articles published between 2006 and 2015, about RI e OC, indexed in Web of Science e Scopus.

Methodology


DATA COLLECTION

Date of the data collection: July 30 2015.

Search strategy: “information retrieval” AND (“knowledge organization OR “information organization”)

Search fields: title, abstract and keywords.

Filters: scientific articles between 2006 and 2015

Methodology


ORGANIZATION

Web of Science: 57 documentsScopus: 92 documents

Bibliographic Manager:

Repetitions: 41 documents

Other documents: 5

Articles that are not part of the scope: 3

Methodology


ANALYSIS

The second stage of the research consisted in analyzing the content of the articles by reading the titles, abstracts and keywords.

Categorization

Categories: the three sub-themes named dimensions of KO proposed by ISKO in the Brazilian chapter congresses: epistemological dimension, applied dimension, social and political dimension.

Methodology


Journals


FIGURE 1: Articles per JournalSOURCE: Research Dat

65 journals13 with at least 2 papers in the corpus

The most representative journals: Knowledge Organization (11)

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (9)

Scope of the journals: both accepet publications on the issues that are studied in this research as the main thematics.

Knowledge Organization is one of the é um dos principais periódicos do domínio da OC, editado pela ISKO.

Journals


Brazilian Journals:Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação (4)Transinformação (3)Informação & Sociedade (2)

some of the most important Brazilian journals of Information Science and they cover the thematics IR and KO.

They are classified in Qualis stratum A1 of CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel).

Journals


Type of Authorship


FIGURE 2: Type of AuthorshipSOURCE: Research Data

The co-authorship reflects the generation and exchange of new and current knowledge with which greater authority from the epistemological point of view is achieved, highlighting the solution of common problems. (BEAVER, 2004).

Type of Authorship


KO Dimensions


FIGURE 3: Knowledge Organization DimensionSOURCE: Research Data

Epistemological Dimension


FIGURE 4: Epistemological DimensionSOURCE: Dados da pesquisa

Studies related to this dimension are key to discuss theory that, consequently, shall underpin the practice represented in the applied dimension.

Epistemological Dimension


Applied Dimension


FIGURE 5: Applied DimensionSOURCE: Research Data

The predominance of research in the applied dimension can be explained by the characteristics of the corpus, considering that IR is a process involving application, tests, etc.

This does not mean that studies in the epistemological dimension are not necessary, as recognizing and discussing concepts, addressing the history and methods of KO and IR are critical issues.

Applied Dimension


Social and Political Dimension


FIGURE 6: Social and Political DimensionSOURCE: Research Data

The low incidence of articles with this theme can be explained because the corpus is formed by international articles, and, the Social and Political Dimension of KO was established as a sub-theme of the ISKO-Brazil congress because of a national yearning, since the first edition of the congress.

Social and Political Dimension


These results confirm the predominance of research related to the applied dimension of KO. This same result was obtained by Bufrem (2015).

Research Tendencies: Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS), automatic indexing, semantic web e ontologies.

Conclusion


Further ResearchThe analysis of the social network formed by the authors of this corpus.

Citation analysis, co-citation and bibliographic coupling.

Identify epistemic communities.

Develop an similar analysis in national journal literature related to IR and KO domains.

Encouraged research related to social and political dimensions.

Conclusion


Regarding IR and KO in this research, the analysis of the corpus allowed us to infer that there is a close relationship between these two domains in the international journal literature indexed in WoS and Scopus databases and published in the last ten years.

Conclusion


References


BEAVER, Donald D. Does collaborative research greater epistemic authority?. Scientometrics, v.60, n.3, p. 399-408, ago. 2004.

BUFREM, Leilah Santiago. Perspectivas da pesquisa sobre organização do conhecimento no Brasil. In: GUIMARÃES, José Augusto Chaves; DODEBEI, Vera. Organização do conhecimento e diversidade cultural. Marília: ISKO-Brasil; FUNDEPE, 2015. p. 709-724. Disponível em: < http://isko-brasil.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Organiza%C3%A7%C3%A3o-do-Conhecimento-e-Diversidade-Cultural-ISKO-BRASIL-2015.pdf>. Acesso em: 20 set. 2015.

RENDÓN ROJAS Miguel Ángel. La ciencia de la información en el contexto de las ciencias sociales y humanas: ontología, epistemología, metodología e interdisciplina. Datagramazero: revista de ciência da informação, v. 9, n. 4, ago. 2008. Disponível em: <http://www.datagramazero.org.br/ago08/F_I_art.htm>. Acesso em: jun. 2012.

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