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A sharing-oriented design strategy for networked knowledge organization systems

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Designers of networked knowledge organization systems often follow a service-oriented design strategy, assuming an organizational model where one party outsources clearly delineated business processes to another party. But the logic of outsourcing is a poor fit for some knowledge organization practices. When knowledge organization is understood as a process of exchange among peers, a sharing-oriented design strategy makes more sense. As an example of a sharing-oriented strategy for designing networked knowledge organization systems, we describe the design of the PeriodO period gazetteer. We analyze the PeriodO data model, its representation using JavaScript Object Notation-Linked Data, and the management of changes to the PeriodO dataset. We conclude by discussing why a sharing-oriented design strategy is appropriate for organizing scholarly knowledge.

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  1. The canonical dataset is http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0. Public domain source code is at https://github.com/periodo.

  2. http://www.fastionline.org/.

  3. http://www.levantineceramics.org/.

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We are grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities for funding this work, to our partners who contributed period definitions and provided feedback, and to Sarah Buchanan for her work compiling the initial PeriodO dataset.

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    Ryan Shaw & Patrick Golden

  2. Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    Adam Rabinowitz

  3. Open Context, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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This work was generously funded by a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Grant Number HD-51864-14).

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Shaw, R., Rabinowitz, A., Golden, P. et al. A sharing-oriented design strategy for networked knowledge organization systems. Int J Digit Libr 17, 49–61 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-015-0164-0

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