This document discusses a model of scientific publishing as a knowledge organization process. Some key points: 1) Scientific publishing is part of the scientific research process and should be treated as a knowledge organization process that transitions knowledge to information. 2) The model views scientific publishing as involving knowledge processes where information leads to new knowledge, and information processes where knowledge is organized into information. 3) Cybergenres, or new genres for electronic publishing, are characterized by their content, form, and functionality enabled by digital mediums.

1. Model of scientific publishing as
knowledge organization process
dr hab. Marek Nahotko
Jagiellonian University
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2.  Scientific publishing is a part of scientific research
process, which is a knowledge process;
 Scientific publishing should be treated as knowledge
organization process;
 It is useful and rational to use knowledge
organization rules in (electronic) scientific publishing
research.
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Rationale
see also Andersen 2008

3.  Knowledge: all what a person keeps in mind and memory; result
of an individual, mental processes;
 Information: content of message exchanged between people
during communication processes (social activity);
 Data: all what is obtained in interaction with environment
without participation of other people as communicating
subjects;
 Most of the elements tend to transit each other in processes of
publication:
 Knowledge ↔ Information, Knowledge ↔ Data, but not
Information ↔ Data.
 Knowledge organization: transition Knowledge → Information.
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Basic assumptions

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Overall model

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Knowledge processes
(information-knowledge-information)

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Information processes
(knowledge-information-knowledge)

7.  ASK – is anomalous state of knowledge deficit
K [S] + ΔI = K[S + ΔS] (Brookes 1980);
pI → ΔI + K[S] → K[S + ΔS] → pI‘ (Ingwersen 1992).
 ASK + is anomalous state of knowledge excess
ΔI + ΔD + Kmax[S] → K’max[S + ΔS] → ΔI'.
 As K’max > Kmax so I’ appears (a new information is created)
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ASK – and ASK +

8.  Schemata: mental representations of knowledge;
 Genres: textual representations of schemata;
 Cybergenres: new genres prepared for electronic
environment.
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Knowledge Organization Systems
see also Kaplan 1997

9.  Traditional genre characterized by content and form;
 Cybergenre characterized by content, form and
functionality;
 Functionality: capabilities available through new,
digital medium (Shepherd, Watters 1998);
 New functionality can make an existence of
cybergenre fully dependent on the new medium.
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Cybergenres (KOS in cyberspace)

10. Thank you for your attention!
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marek.nahotko@uj.edu.pl