Practice-Based Information and Data Management: A Network Approach

Gasson, Susan

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Title

Practice-Based Information and Data Management: A Network Approach

Author(s)

Gasson, Susan

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• information organization and metadata
• social informatics
• sustainable computing

Abstract

The paper explores an alternative approach to organizing information and data, based on categories of interest to local practice. It critiques current approaches to ontology and categorization schema development. An alternative approach is suggested, based on the analysis of networks of association contained in narrative accounts of the significance, context, and provenance of information. The approach is illustrated via a scenario based on the recording of information relevant to the analysis of unearthed artifacts in an archaeology research laboratory. The utility of this approach is contrasted with the formal system of information recording used in the laboratory, to demonstrate that one size does not fit all, in ontology design. The paper concludes that we need information recording tools that allow users to explore and develop categorization schemas based on practice. Such tools need to incorporate evolution of both categories and associations, to reflect experiential learning.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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