Knowledge Organisation: Trends and Challenges

On October 24 and 25, the international conference "Knowledge Organisation: Trends and Challenges" will be held in honour of Professor Graça Simões within the Disciplinary Affinities, who was a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra and a researcher in Group 7 of Digital Humanities. The conference will result in a book of proceedings to be published by the University of Coimbra Press with the support of CEIS20.

Maria da Graça Simões was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and a researcher in Group 7 - Digital Humanities at CEIS20. Her research area focused on the Organisation of Knowledge, in which she was a renowned specialist with national and international recognition. Both her scientific output and the international partnerships she established, especially in Spain and Brazil, as a member of research groups and as a visiting professor, bear witness to this.

Programme

October 24th ▾

09:30 | Opening

  • Organisation and representation of information by subject in Information Science training in Portugal / Fernanda Ribeiro
  • Revisiting ‘From abstraction to formal complexity’: reflections on convergence and divergence in the standardisation of knowledge organisation / Olívia Pestana

11:00 | Coffee break

  • Methodology and research on the Universal Decimal Classification / Daniel MartÍnez-Ávila
  • Big Language Models and the impact of AI for Information Science / Renato Rocha Souza
Lunch

15:00

  • The documentary summary as a logical structure in the organisation of knowledge / José Augusto Chaves Guimarães
  • Feminist epistemology in information science / Rosa San Segundo
  • Inclusive Knowledge Organisation Systems. Reversing the invisibilisation of women / Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo
  • How to integrate the gender perspective into citizen science / José Antonio Frias

October 25th ▾

09:30

  • Using chatbots to produce scientific abstracts: what do abstracts tell us about research? A systematic review / Helena Leitão
  • Classifying, an essential act for organising the universe / Luís Machado
  • A silence and a voice: Literature as a challenge to the Organisation of Knowledge / Patrícia de Almeida

11:00 | Pausa para café

  • ‘Taxio... what? A study of taxonomy through Knowledge Organisation Systems / Fernanda Daniel
  • A bibliometric analysis of the scientific publications of Maria da Graça Simões / Silvana Ro
  • ‘Taxio... what?": A study of taxonomy through Knowledge Organisation Systems / Fernanda Daniel
  • A bibliometric analysis of Maria da Graça Simões' scientific publications / Silvana Roque de Oliveira
Lunch

15:00

  • Bibliographic exhibition
  • Testimonies
  • Closing Ceremony

Organising Committee

  • Maria Manuel Borges (FLUC / CEIS20)
  • Cristina Freitas (FLUC / CEIS20)
  • António Tavares Lopes (FLUC)
  • Ana Miguéis (General Library)
  • Maria João Padez (University Press)
  • Bruno Neves (School of Nursing)

Supporting organisations

  • Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20)
  • Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra
  • Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information FLUC

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