[Sigcr-l] Reading about how culture/language affects knowledge representation

Sun Sep 20 12:33:54 EDT 2009

Dagobert --

The paper by Birger Hjorland that you might find useful is
	Hjørland, Birger (2007) Semantics and Knowledge Organization. Annual  
Review of Information Science and Technology 41:367 -405.

It is available online at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2312/

elin

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On Sep 19, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Dagobert Soergel wrote:

> A beginning student asked me
>
> Could you recommend a reading about how culture/language affects
> knowledge representation?
>
> Does anyone know of the one or two articles that introduce this
> problem, or a bibliography?  A good treatment of cultural focus (or
> bias) in classifications, such as DDC or the Colon Classification,
> would certainly fit in here.
>
> Dagobert
>
>
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