From Shelves to Cyberspace
Organization of Knowledge and the Complex Identity of History of Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3372235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb (0000-0002-5045-8736, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), Silvia Waisse (0000-0003-1666-7216, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), Márcia H M Ferraz (0000-0003-1090-8963, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 551-560 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/673274 |
| PMID | 24341265 |
| OpenAlex | W1962895639 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
History of science as a formal and autonomous field of research crosses over disciplinary boundaries. For this reason, both its production and its working materials are difficult to classify and catalog according to discipline-based systems of organization of knowledge. Three main problems might be pointed out in this regard: the disciplines themselves are subject to a historical process of transformation; some objects of scientific inquiry resist constraint within rigid disciplinary grids but, rather, extend across several disciplinary boundaries; and the so-called digital revolution has replaced spatial with temporal display sequences and shifted the traditional emphasis on knowledge to user-oriented approaches. The first part of this essay is devoted to a conceptual analysis of the various approaches to the organization of knowledge formulated over time, whereas the second considers the new possibilities afforded by a faceted model of knowledge organization compatible with user-oriented relational databases to the research materials and production of history of science
Aesthetics · Body of knowledge · Constraint (computer-aided design · Cyberspace · Data science · Discipline · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Identity (music · Knowledge management · Process (computing · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Subject (documents · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Engineering · Italian Literature and Culture · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |