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Ethical Challenges in Archival Knowledge Organization: the description of personal data for long-term preservation

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José Augusto Guimarães at São Paulo State University
José Augusto Guimarães
Natália Bolfarini Tognoli at Fluminense Federal University
Natália Bolfarini Tognoli
José Augusto Bagatini at São Paulo State University
José Augusto Bagatini
Daniel Martínez-Ávila at University of Leon
Daniel Martínez-Ávila
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... These standards condition the availability and structure of the knowledge base on the web and thus the contents and relationships used as sources by those computer algorithms and artificial intelligence. This aspect is especially sensitive and relevant for knowledge organization in the case of personal information (Guimarães et al. 2019). While in the past the use and involvement of computer algorithms were considered part of the "physical paradigm" or "system-driven paradigm" of knowledge organization (Hjørland 2008) in a more monolithic way in which the decisions of the system designers determined the organization of knowledge, the input of users' evaluations first, in a more traditional way, and the collection of metadata produced by conscious or unconscious behaviors on the social web today has moved them to the side of the "user-oriented" paradigm. ...
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