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glossaLAB: Co-creating Interdisciplinary Knowledge

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Applied Informatics (ICAI 2019)

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The paper describes the glossaLAB international project as a contribution to confront the urgent need of knowledge integration frameworks, as required to face global challenges that overwhelm disciplinary knowledge capacity. Under this scope, glossaLAB is devised to make contributions in three main aspects of such endeavor: (i) development of a sound theoretical framework for the unification of knowledge, (ii) establishment of broadly accepted methodologies and tools to facilitate the integration of knowledge, (iii) development of assessment criteria for the qualification of interdisciplinarity undertakings. The paper discusses the main components of the project and the solutions adopted to achieve the intended objectives at three different levels: at the technical level, glossaLAB aims at developing a platform for knowledge integration based on the elucidation of concepts, metaphors, theories and problems, including a semantically-operative recompilation of valuable scattered encyclopedic contents devoted to two entangled transdisciplinary fields: the sciences of systems and information. At the theoretical level, the goal is reducing the redundancy of the conceptual system (defined in terms of “intensional performance” of the contents recompiled), and the elucidation of new concepts. Finally, at the meta-theoretical level, the project aims at assessing the knowledge integration achieved through the co-creation process based on (a) the diversity of the disciplines involved and (b) the integration properties of the conceptual network stablished through the elucidation process.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to dedicate this work to the memory of Charles François. His work represents an invaluable and everlasting contribution to the integration of knowledge to which glossaLAB project is devoted. We are indebted to his legacy. This contribution has been carried out under support of glossaLAB project, co-founded by the Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, Ecuador, and an international consortium of academic institutions.

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  1. Madrid Open University, Madrid, Spain

    José María Díaz-Nafría

  2. BITrum-Research Group, León, Spain

    José María Díaz-Nafría, Teresa Guarda & Gerhard Chroust

  3. Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador

    Teresa Guarda

  4. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Mark Burgin

  5. Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Rainer Zimmermann & Gerhard Chroust

  6. Institute for Design Science, Munich, Germany

    Rainer Zimmermann

  7. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Simone Belli

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Díaz-Nafría, J.M. et al. (2019). glossaLAB: Co-creating Interdisciplinary Knowledge. In: Florez, H., Leon, M., Diaz-Nafria, J., Belli, S. (eds) Applied Informatics. ICAI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1051. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32475-9_31

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