Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge Across Boundaries

摘要

the principal themes that emerged are the fundamental need for facet analysis and a plea for "back to basics," together with the use of categories and a systematic approach to the design of retrieval tools. The general preference is for the thesaurus as the favoured tool for subject retrieval, and the sad lack of up to date standards for the creation of retrieval tools has been commented upon. Related studies in Artificial Intelligence and in lexicography and the need to draw upon others working in parallel fields, and to make our methods known to them, were emphasised, especially in the design of ontologies for accessing data on the Web. XML has featured as a useful tool on a number of occasions. Social and ethical problems and the needs of users from different backgrounds and at different levels of sophistication were emphasized. Overarching all of the papers there was the challenge of effective retrieval of information from the Web and the need for work on interdisciplinary fields and across different cultural divides in order to resolve the problems posed by the organization of resources in a networked environment.