HERMENEUTICS AND THE DASEIN OF KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION IN INFORMATION SCIENCE

Abstract

The article discusses Knowledge Organization in relation to philosophical hermeneutics within the field of Information Science. Knowledge Organization is interdisciplinary in nature, as evidenced by its dialogue with different fields, including Philosophy. The central hypothesis of this study is that Knowledge Organization should be understood as a critical process in which the conceptual framework of its tradition is reconstructed through the perspective of Dasein, that is, being-in-the-world. Thus, the development of Knowledge Organization should be reassessed from the dimension of significance inherent in being-in-the-world. Methodologically, this research adopts a qualitative, theoretical, and bibliographic approach grounded in studies of philosophical hermeneutics. Accordingly, it seeks to understand the domain of Knowledge Organization within a hermeneutic horizon. From this perspective, established through Dasein, Knowledge Organization is conceived as the projection of an event of understanding, interpretation, and worldhood, constituted through the relationship among subject, object, and existence. In this sense, organizing knowledge means hermeneutically revealing the original structure of the exteriority of the language of that which is organized, as well as the structure of what we are.