information economy based on knowledge organization systems, with emphasis on folksonomy: dissertation of academic libraries

Abstract

Purpose: Information organization have been a way to facilitate information retrieval. Thus, different knowledge organization systems have been developed over the years. In today's world information and knowledge based economy are the competitive advantage of organizations, and since that knowledge organization systems are one of the pillars of the economy advantage, so this paper sought to investigate the two knowledge information systems: Dewey decimal system to represent the traditional systems and modern systems of representative Folksonomy, in economy advantage in libraries. Methodology: The study sample of this paper is 4800 thesis of an academic library, and this research method is the comparative method, based on the value of information formula. Results: The results of this study indicate that Folksonomy system is much more economical than Dewey system. This article is an original study has not been published before in any other publication. So Folksonomy is a economical knowledge organization system.