Just KOS! Enriching Digital Collections with Hypertexts to Enhance Accessibility of Non-Western Knowledge Materials in Libraries

Karim Tharani

doi:10.5771/0943-7444-2020-3-220

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- I–II Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis I–II
- 199–230 Articles 199–230
  - 199–219 What Researchers are Currently Saying about Ontologies: A Review of Recent Web of Science Articles Luís Miguel Oliveira Machado, Maurício Barcellos Almeida, Renato Rocha Souza Luís Miguel Oliveira Machado, Maurício Barcellos Almeida, Renato Rocha Souza 199–219
  - 220–230 Just KOS! Enriching Digital Collections with Hypertexts to Enhance Accessibility of Non-Western Knowledge Materials in Libraries Karim Tharani Karim Tharani 220–230
- 231–278 Reviews of Concepts in Knowledge Organization 231–278
  - 231–243 The Basic Concepts Classification (BCC) Rick Szostak Rick Szostak 231–243
  - 244–256 Discipline Björn Hammarfelt Björn Hammarfelt 244–256
  - 257–266 Physics Subject Headings (PhySH) Arthur Smith Arthur Smith 257–266
  - 267–278 Peirce’s Classification of the Sciences Torjus Midtgarden Torjus Midtgarden 267–278
- 279–279 Books Recently Published 279–279
- 280–281 Impressum 280–281
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Just KOS! Enriching Digital Collections with Hypertexts to Enhance Accessibility of Non-Western Knowledge Materials in Libraries

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Karim Tharani

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2020-3-220
- ISSN: 0943-7444
- ISSN online: 2942-3309
Abstract

The knowledge organization systems (KOS) in use at libraries are social constructs that were conceived in the Euro-American context to organize and retrieve Western knowledge materials. As social constructs of the West, the effectiveness of library KOSs is limited when it comes to organization and retrieval of non-Western knowledge materials. How can librarians respond if asked to make non-Western knowledge materials as accessible as Western materials in their libraries? The accessibility of Western and non-Western knowledge materials in libraries need not be an either-or proposition. By way of a case study, a practical way forward is presented by which librarians can use their professional agency and existing digital technologies to exercise social justice. More specifically I demonstrate the design and development of a specialized KOS that enriches digital collections with hypertext features to enhance the accessibility of non-Western knowledge materials in libraries.
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