COMIC: a system and methodology for conceptual modelling and information construction
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Sustainable enterprise interoperability from the Activity Domain Theory perspective
Computers in Industry
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A recent trend in thinking about information systems and data bases is the idea that shared knowledge forms a globally understood phenomenon, based on global communication facilitated by the Internet and maintained by the global information management. The idea sounds good, but difficult ontological, epistemological, logical, and methodological problems are penetrating out. One is based on the way how human concepts are created. Another problem is that the point of view is not usually taken into account properly. The third one is that a system of concepts on which the information system is built seems to form an unique entirety, limiting the applicability of constructs of the system of concepts outside the borders of the information system. We study the idea and analyse some of the problems that seem to be revealed. The answer to the question in the title seems to be negative, but many improvements to information systems can be made. Systematic studies of concepts, systems of concepts and their descriptions are regarded as necessary. Information systems should be defined on the basis of their conceptual content, not on the basis of the data flow and linguistic representations of occurrences, as it is done today.