Knowledge Organization: past, present and future under the perspective of ISKO

• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, José Augusto Chaves
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/31443
• topic: Knowledge Organization. International Society for Knowledge Organization – ISKO; Knowledge Organization History; Knowledge Organization Theory; Organización del Conocimiento; International Society for Knowledge Organization – ISKO; Historia de la Organización del Conocimiento; Teoría de la Organización del Conocimiento; Organização do Conhecimento; História da Organização do Conhecimento; Teorias da Organização do Conhecimento; International Society for Knowledge Organization – ISKO

Introduction: Knowledge organization is a field of interdisciplinary nature whose configuration as a scientific discipline has been consolidating in the international context notably during the last two decades through the institution of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). However, it is not yet clear how this configuration has been built over time, especially regarding the challenges and perspectives that it faces. Objectives: The research fronts (or theoretical perspectives) - epistemological, applied and cultural - that permeate ISKO as a scientific space are analyzed in relation to their theoretical references, and in relation to the research challenges and perspectives that they fave today. Methodology: Using a literature review of knowledge organization in a historical perspective, we identify the thematic trends that are inherent to it as well as its challenges and perspectives. Results and conclusions: In the process of scientific construction of knowledge organization, we observed that ISKO plays an important role as a space for the construction and dissemination of knowledge as well as the promotion of scientific dialogicity at the international level. In this context, three actions are particularly important: the creation of new ISKO chapters (national and regional), providing new spaces for production and scientific dialogue; the intensification and multiplication of inter-institutional and intercountry scientific partnerships that may reflect a global construction but always taking into account local meanings; and the consolidation of this domain of knowledge as a nuclear research space in Information Science, since it deals with an essential mediating activity that allows the maintenance of a continuous helicoidal movement of the growth (in scope and depth) of research in the area, permeated by the need of a constant and sharp criticism inherent to the dynamic spaces.