Explain the process of knowledge organisation system
The idea of knowledge products arose out of concerns, primarily in the corporate world but also in other spheres (e.g., government), of the information overload phenomenon which we are subjected to because of the proliferation of information in conventional and in digital forms. The ongoing need to manage knowledge and discover the nuggets of knowledge in a sea of information has led to the search for better methods of organising information for knowledge discovery. T
The term knowledge organisation system encompasses all types of schemes for organising information and supporting KM. These include taxonomies, classification, clustering and categorisation schemes that organise materials at a general level, subject headings that provide more specific access, authority files that control variant versions of key information such as geographic names, highly structured vocabularies, such as thesauri, and less traditional schemes, such as semantic networks and ontologies. One kind of knowledge product which had many votaries during the 1970s and 1980s, namely, Expert Systems using artificial intelligence (AI) principles did not make any significant dent primarily because of the difficulties and the cost of capturing domain knowledge in an ongoing dynamic manner.