Interindexer Consistency: An Analysis Method to Establish Links and Relationships Between Research Projects

Edgardo Stubbs
Instituto De Investigacion En Humanidades Y Cienicas Sociales. Facultad De Humanidades Y Cienicas De La Educación. Universidad Nacional De La Plata

Abstract

Within the context of the organization of knowledge, the production that emanates from different types of research projects is included. The instruments applied in the organization of knowledge allow establishing relationships between concepts that reconstruct the conceptual structure of a specialized domain through accumulation and linkage. One of the situations that sparked debates and discussions regarding the subjective nature of indexing is the degree of agreement between two indexers when indexing information resources. Inter-indexer coherence refers to the degree of agreement that exists on the terms to be used to describe an information resource. Among these information resources, a very important one is the research projects produced at universities. These make up information resources in which each researcher responsible for them assigns a set of keywords that describe them thematically through natural language. That is to say, each of the class words assigned to each project constitutes an indexation through the natural language that constitutes an input for the analysis of scientific production from a qualitative aspect. This work proposes the application of analysis indicators in inter-indexer coherence (each project director) to establish trajectories and transversalities in scientific production in the field of universities as producers of knowledge.

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