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Concept and Expression of Time:Cultural Variations and Impact on Knowledge Organization


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Ontology has a philosophical and an epistemological dimension. The former position addresses social and cultural knowledge from the standpoint of temporality while the latter describes representation and organizational aspects of cultural and social concepts for later retrieval. The epistemological standpoint falls within the domain of information science and information systems and the philosophical position underpins our theoretical assumptions and ideas about existence. Thus ontological assumptions frame not only our understanding of reality, but also direct our epistemological approach. An epistemological standpoint is how we come to gain knowledge, hi designing systems for representing, organizing, and retrieving information it is ontology taken in its epistemological sense that reveals the first realities which deal with the fundamental categories of object, state of affairs, part, whole, etc, as well as the relations between parts and the whole and their laws of dependence Here ontology is taken to be "an explicit specification of a shared conceptualization". It is how the term is used in artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge representation, hi computer science and information science, ontology is a formal representation of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. It is used to reason about the properties of that domain, and may be used to define the domain. "Ontology is used in AI, the Semantic Web, systems engineering, software engineering, biomedical informatics, library science, enterprise bookmarking, and information architecture as a form of knowledge representation about the world or some part of it" (Wikipedia).
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A. Neelameghan
Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, India

Abstract


Ontology has a philosophical and an epistemological dimension. The former position addresses social and cultural knowledge from the standpoint of temporality while the latter describes representation and organizational aspects of cultural and social concepts for later retrieval. The epistemological standpoint falls within the domain of information science and information systems and the philosophical position underpins our theoretical assumptions and ideas about existence. Thus ontological assumptions frame not only our understanding of reality, but also direct our epistemological approach. An epistemological standpoint is how we come to gain knowledge, hi designing systems for representing, organizing, and retrieving information it is ontology taken in its epistemological sense that reveals the first realities which deal with the fundamental categories of object, state of affairs, part, whole, etc, as well as the relations between parts and the whole and their laws of dependence Here ontology is taken to be "an explicit specification of a shared conceptualization". It is how the term is used in artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge representation, hi computer science and information science, ontology is a formal representation of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. It is used to reason about the properties of that domain, and may be used to define the domain. "Ontology is used in AI, the Semantic Web, systems engineering, software engineering, biomedical informatics, library science, enterprise bookmarking, and information architecture as a form of knowledge representation about the world or some part of it" (Wikipedia).

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