Knowledge Organization, Information Systems and Other Essays : Professor A. Neelameghan Festschrift
Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Knowledge Organization: 1. Towards a future for knowledge organization/Ingetraut Dahlberg. 2. Professor Neelameghan\'s contribution to the advancement and development of classification in the context of knowledge organization/Nancy J. Williamson. 3. Knowledge organization systems over time/S. Seetharama. 4. The facet concept as a universal principle of subdivision/Clare Beghtol. 5. Facet analysis as a knowledge management tool on the internet/Kathryn La Barre and Pauline Atherton Cochrane. 6. The universal decimal classification: a response to a challenge/I.C. Mcllwaine. 7. Controlled vocabularies as a sphere of influence/Anita S. Coleman and Paul Bracke. 8. Aligning systems of relationships/Rebecca Green and Carol A. Bean. 9. Terminologies, ontologies and information access/Widad Mustafa El Hadi. 10. SATSAN automatrix version I: a computer programme for synthesis of colon class number according to the postulational approach/B.G. Satyapal and N. Sanjivini Satyapal. II. Interoperability, Digital Library and Information Retrieval: 1. Interoperable institutional digital research repositories and their potential for open access and research knowledge management/T.B. Rajashekar. 2. Boundary objects and the digital library/Michael Shepherd and Carolyn Watters. 3. A PFT-based approach to make CDS/ISIS database OAI-compliant/Francais Jayakanth and L. Aswath. 4. The changing language technology and CDS/ISIS: UNICODE and the emergence of OTF/K.H. Hussain and J.S. Rajeev. 5. Text mining in biomedicine: challenges and opportunities/Padmini Srinivasan. 6. Determining authorship of web pages/Timothy C. Craven. III. Knowledge Management in Specialized Areas: 1. Information system for knowledge management in the specialized division of a hospital/M.C. Vasudevan, Murali Mohan and Amit Kapoor. 2. Five laws of information service and architecting knowledge infrastructure for education and development/K.R. Srivathsan. 3. Documentation of compositions in Carnatic music: need for and utility of a computerized database/K.S. Nagarajan. 4. Saint Tyagaraja CD: a model for knowledge organization and presentation of classical Carnatic Music/T.N. Rajan. 5. The national tuberculosis institute, Bangalore: recent developments in library and information services/Sudha S. Murthy. 6. Sri Ramakrishna Math libraries: computer applications/D.N. Nagaraja Rao. 7. Save the time of the Godly: information mediator\'s role in promoting spiritual and religious accommodation/Mohamed Taher. IV. Information Society: 1. Information society, information networks and national development: an overview/P.B. Mangla. 2. Digital divide in India - narrowing the gap: an appraisal with special reference to Karnataka/K.N. Prasad. 3. Future of the book: will the printed book survive the digital age?/K.A. Isaac. 4. Role of traditional librarianship in the internet/digital era/A. Ratnakar. 5. A new paradigm of education system for reaching the unreached through open and distance education with special reference to the Indian initiative/S.B. Ghosh. 6. Knowledge workers of new millennium: an instance of interdisciplinary exchange and discovery/Michael Medland. V. The Person and Associated Organizations: 1. Professional profile of professor A. Neelameghan: excerpts from interview sessions/Hemalatha Iyer. 2. A Neelameghan and UNESCO: contributions and remembrances/John Rose. 3. Studies and research in informatics at the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), ISI, Bangalore/I.K. Ravichandra Rao and Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo. 4. Professor A. Neelameghan/M.A. Gopinath. 5. A Salutation of affection/K.S. Deshpande. 5. Professor A. Neelameghan and the Sarada Ranganathan endowment for library science/K.N. Prasad. Contributing authors.
"In this volume brought out to honour Prof. A. Neelameghan, the editors have put together invited papers from eminent information professionals. The papers represent ongoing research in areas of contemporary interest in knowledge organization, digital libraries and knowledge management in specialized areas. The papers have been categorized under five major themes:
Knowledge organization.
Interoperability, digital library and information retrieval;
Knowledge management in specialized areas;
Information Society; and
The Person and Associated Organizations.
The papers in the first section discuss a wide range of issues that provide a good account of contemporary research and thinking in the area of knowledge organization. The papers in the second section focus on application of emerging technologies vis-a-vis information retrieval. There is a useful paper on text mining in this section. The papers in the section on knowledge management in specialized areas present actual case studies of information support systems in specialized domains including medicine, socio-economic development, music and religion. The papers in the fourth section explore the emerging digital age and its possible implications for information systems and human resource development. Most of the papers relate to Prof. Neelameghan\'s works, association with and impact on the corresponding field (s) in the information and knowledge management domains. The last section carries a few papers on Prof. Neelameghan, and his work in India, with international organizations, and in many developing countries of the world."
