From Individuals to the Global Community: the Hidden Contradiction of the Cultural History of Classification and the latest brow

We would like to show that the collective production of knowledge and the individual creation of its organizational casting mould, which is therefore incapable of following the growth of the amount of information and its ,,inextricable intertwining", will always be in irreconcilable contradiction. The solution seems to be coming from the Web: the latest browsing technologies are able to "compress" the wisdom of millions of users. The real paradigm shift, however, can be expected neither from technology nor the user, but the specific hybrid systems of these. Let us focus our attention to Human Agents. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3. Information Storage and retrieval H. 3.2. Information storage, Record classification H.3.3. Retrieval models H.3.5. Web-based services General Terms Documentation, Human Factors, Theory, Keywords Classification, Knowledge, Browsing

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WWW
• Authors: László Z. Karvalics
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Latest Browsing Technologies, Real Paradigm Shift, Specific Hybrid Systems, WWW 2003