Abstract :
In this article, ethical decision-making methods for creating,
revising, and maintaining knowledge representation
and organization systems are described, particularly
in relation to the global use of these systems. The
analysis uses a three-level model and the literature on
ethically based decision-making in the social and technical
sciences. In addition, methods for making these
kinds of decisions in an ethical manner are presented.
This multidisciplinary approach is generalizable to other
information areas and is useful for encouraging the
development of ethics policies for knowledge representation
and organization systems and for other kinds of
systems or institutions.
