Designing Knowledge Organization Systems

Abstract

As an activity that supports pedagogical practice in the context of the subject Knowledge and Information Organization, in the Postgraduate Program Knowledge Management and Organization (PPGGOC), at the School of Information Science of UFMG, the following knowledge organization tools were proposed as a final assignment: Taxonomy, Classification System, Thesaurus and Ontology, as well as a Concept Map and Glossary, all presented in appendices A to F. These tools were created based on the basic text: "Semantic Web: a proposal for the production of meanings for information retrieval in cyberspace" by Fabíola Maria Pereira Bezerra and Virginia Bentes Pinto. This work provided an understanding, through practice, of how some types of knowledge organization systems are designed and developed, such as glossaries, concept maps, taxonomies, classification systems, thesauruses and ontologies that support knowledge management in information systems. It is important to consider the importance of the systems: Thesa, Protege and Drawing, which helped to support the creation of each instrument. Without these resources, the activity would have taken longer. In addition, remote meetings via Google Meeting were also important for the development of the course and the activities. The difficulties encountered were related to handling the support tools used to build the proposed knowledge organization systems. In addition, the development of this work was hampered by the author's lack of mastery of the proposed topic: Semantic Web.