Domain Analysis for Knowledge Organization: Tools for Ontology Extraction

✍ Scribed by Richard Smiraglia

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 110
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Domain analysis is the process of studying the actions, knowledge production, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge-base of a community of commonality, such as an academic discipline or a professional community. The products of domain analysis range from controlled vocabularies and other knowledge organization systems, to scientific evidence about the growth and sharing of knowledge and the evolution of communities of discourse and practice.In the field of knowledge organization- both the science and the practice­ domain analysis is the basic research method for identifying the concepts that will be critical building blocks for knowledge organization systems. This book will survey the theoretical rationale for domain analysis, present tutorials in the specific methods of domain analysis, especially with regard to tools for visualizing knowledge domains.

• Focuses on the science and practice of organizing knowledge
• Includes step-by-step instructions to enable the book to be used as a textbook or a manual for researchers

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures and tables, Pages vii-viii
Acknowledgments, Page ix
1 - Discourse domains and their role in knowledge production dissemination and organization, Pages 1-18
2 - Domain analysis as a methodological paradigm in knowledge organization, Pages 19-40
3 - Empirical methods for visualizing domains, Pages 41-50
4 - Empirical techniques for visualizing domains, Pages 51-89
5 - Qualitative analysis: Cognitive work analysis, Pages 91-95
6 - Conclusions, Pages 97-102
Index, Pages 103-105