Communities' Knowledge and Experts' Viewpoints in Digital Libraries

• Main Authors: Iacovella, Andrea, Bénel, Aurélien
• Other Authors: TECHnologies pour la Coopération, l’Interaction et les COnnaissances dans les collectifs (Tech-CICO), Institut Charles Delaunay (ICD), Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2005
• Subjects: [INFO]Computer Science [cs]; Norway; Tromsø
• Online Access: https://hal-utt.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02954965

International audience When building a knowledge and documents management system, it is often considered that an "ontology" (i.e. a consensual model of the domain) is needed. As a matter of fact, in expert domains (humanities, medical care, engineering, law.), we can find several contradictory "ontologies". Moreover, these conflicting "viewpoints" result in a debate which is the sign of a sense making activity. This does not mean that a domain is not built on a background knowledge, or that there are no media to record this knowledge on. But how do experts use these media throughout their activities? May we say that becoming an expert is like moving away from a beacon?