II congresso brasileiro em representagao e organização do conhecimento: Knowledge organization in Rio 2013 - An editorial

Abstract

The Second Brazilian Conference on Knowledge Organization and Representation took place in Rio de Janeiro, in May 2013. It was a lively gathering with international attendance through three days of presentations by keynote speakers as well as a large number of contributed research papers. The proceedings contain forty-three papers or extended abstracts from the speakers. Citation analysis, co-word analysis, and author cocitation analysis were employed to analyze the relationship between the domain of this conference and that of ISKO at large. The highly productive new ISKO chapter in Brazil is shown to be contributing to the further evolution of the core of knowledge organization as a science by both embracing and extending the application of core concept theory in the extension of the domain. Like their counterparts in other regions, they also are helping to refresh the intension of the domain with a large portion of local applied research, especially in bibliometrics analyses of scientific productivity, in the extension of knowledge representation and organization to archival practice, and in the integration of concepts of ontology along major epistemological trajectories.