Towards an Open, Inclusive and Sustainable Knowledge Organization Models

In an increasingly globalized context, multilingualism and multiculturalism have become major preoccupations for Knowledge Organization (KO) which have to be as fair as possible to ensure and sustain knowledge organization as a driver for development. Indeed, over time, the gap between languages of dominant nations or civilizations and other languages has been growing. In this research, we describe, evaluate and present first results of our sustainable and open access knowledge organization model. The model is based on a paradigms that permit different types of contributors, including volunteers as well as scientific and scholarly communities from across borders, languages, nations, continents, and disciplines to take part in the knowledge organization process in an efficient and dynamic way. Recent experiments with this model have been conducted on transnational literary texts as well as in the arena of crowdsourcing cultural heritage knowledge and collections enrichment.