| Title: | AFFORDANCES AND CONSTRAINTS IN KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812701527_0027 |
| Source: | KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: NURTURING CULTURE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY (pp 315-321)
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| Author(s): | ISTO VATANEN
Information studies, Åbo Akademi University, Tavastgatan 13, FIN-20500 ÅBO, Finland
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| Abstract: | Knowledge organisation (KO) schemes affect directly the nature of knowledge states emerging as a result of their use. Basically a knowledge organisation system (KOS) may expected to fit its explicit purpose in a more or less satisfactory manner, but besides the intended application, each system is capable to fit an unknown number of implicit quasi-intended and non-intended purposes. The scope and confines of knowledge potentially emerging as a result of an application of a KO scheme is discussed here with a reference to the ecological approach introduced by Gibson. |
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