Book review

摘要

The Representation of Knowledge by W.G. Stock and M. Stock, Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagnGmbH, Muenchen, Germany, 2008, flexcover, €36,80, 441 pp., ISBN: 978-3-486-58439-4; URL:nwww.oldenbourg.denThe representation of knowledge is the science, appliance and exercise of methods and tools to shownknowledge in a way, so that this can be searched and found easily in digital databases. It permits thenformation of information buildings which – working on a base of terms and term compositions – allowsnrepresenting knowledge in its coherency of meanings. Without elaborated techniques of the representationnof knowledge it is impossible to design the “semantic web”.nThis textbook imparts acquaintances about metadata and describes detailed both, documentary approachesnas well as approaches as documented in libraries of content development (thesauri and systemsnof classification), the effort of informatics for term arrangements (ontologies) and user-concentratedndevelopments and user-generated content in web 2.0 (folksonomies). It is about evaluating and providingninformation in services on the World Wide Web, in intra-corporate information services in contextnwith internal management of knowledge as well as in technical professional (commercial) databases.nThe book touches also facets classification, citation and automatic indexing, and automatic informationnextraction.nThis book is addressed to information science, information industry and information management studentsnat universities in German-speaking areas as well as to those who study librarianship. Furthermore,nmanagers of knowledge and information in business practice can find useful hints in this book.