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Author

Marras, C.

Title

Structuring multidisciplinary knowledge : aquatic and terrestrial metaphors

Source

Knowledge organization. 40(2013) no.6, S.392-399

Year

2013

Abstract

In my paper, I will discuss which metaphors appear to be an appropriate conceptual model capable of interpreting and capturing the implicit theoretical and methodological pluralism of knowledge organization. I will propose the use of "aquatic metaphors" for structuring and representing the "new" scenario of knowledge as "open landscape." To this end, I will compare the "aquatic" metaphorical model to the more traditional "terrestrial" one. I will trace back the use of these two metaphorical domains for knowledge organization to the XVII century. A diachronical view will allow us to see how the complexity of the different historical scenarios always requires categories more adequate and capable of describing and interpreting (and organizing) a multilayered knowledge. Multiple approaches and tools for transferring and organizing, as well for distributing and sharing knowledge, are therefore needed. The paper aims at showing how, referring to aquatic metaphors as a model for knowledge organization, we can open the possibility of access to "transversal" points of view, and, in addition to the authoritative knowledge, how they facilitate the creation of entirely new types of interconnections that generates a multi-hierarchical and multidisciplinary knowledge structure.

Content

Beitrag im Rahmen eines Special Issue: 'Paradigms of Knowledge and its Organization: The Tree, the Net and Beyond,' edited by Fulvio Mazzocchi and Gian Carlo Fedeli. - Vgl.: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/isko_ko/downloads/ko_40_2013_6_e.pdf.

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