Dissertação
Uso e desenvolvimento de sistemas de organização do conhecimento pelas corporações: criação de um modelo conceitual para o domínio da exploração mineral
Fecha
2022-01-13Autor
Gabriela Silva Caetano
Institución
Resumen
The recovery of information has been one of the fundamental issues of
Information Sciences. Thus, over time, several models, standards and systems
have been developed for organizing information and knowledge in a way that
makes data from bibliographic databases and information products accessible.
The foundational theme of this research is the field of Knowledge Organization
within corporations, motivated by the necessity for organizing knowledge within
the Exploration and Mineral Projects department at Vale S.A. The goal is to create
a conceptual model of the knowledge domain of mineral exploration to support
information recovery systems that store knowledge within this context. The issue
raised regards investigating which would be the proper conceptual model to
support the indexation and improve retrieval of information in corporate
information systems. The general goal is to develop a conceptual model of the
knowledge domain of mineral exploration through extending the value chain
diagram with new categories. The specific objectives are i) To present previous
research done in the utilization of Knowledge Organization Systems in corporate
environments; ii) Identify the main strategies and methodologies for developing
conceptual models; iii) Identify existing categories in related knowledge
organization systems that could subsidize the development of a conceptual
model in the mineral exploration domain; iv) Include relevant categories identified
in the value chain of Exploration and Mineral Projects at Vale, constituting the
conceptual model for mineral exploration. As a general objective this is
categorized as a case study for the board of Exploration and Mineral Projects at
Vale. This is applied research, in which the goal is to generate knowledge for
practical purposes, and exploratory, where the intention is to discover a new kind
of focus for the problems presented. This paper has a qualitative approach, and
the logical basis of research is the inductive method. The research presents two
nuclei of observation, the first regarding the whole theoretical scope, where
bibliographic research and content analysis was conducted, and the second and
main nucleus regarding the practical nature which intends to develop a
conceptual model in Mineral Exploration. The project is considered to have
succeeded the proposed objectives. Regarding the general goal, the conceptual
model has been developed and prototyped for the future elaboration of a KOS
(Knowledge Organization System), which has been named MEKOS --Mineral
Exploration Knowledge Organization System. The specific objectives aimed to
answer the raised questions also demonstrated satisfactory results. It is believed
that the development of a KOS for the area of Mineral Research is of great
importance, considering the ever-growing economy surrounding commodities.
Actions towards standardizing the knowledge of Mineral Exploration will support
the indexation and recovery of information, which in turn help to improve
productivity, foment research and generate new knowledge.