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Research draft

academic discipline

vr.tr.academic-discipline · INF.KNW

Let an agent handle academic disciplines by field, methods, institutions and classification schemes.

Thing Registry Information and virtual systems

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle academic disciplines by field, methods, institutions and classification schemes.

A branch of knowledge taught and researched at the university level, with its own journals, departments, methods and professional communities, such as physics, history or instructional design.

What it is for: Organising knowledge, teaching and research.

It can be classify research by discipline; find departments and programmes; identify journals and societies; work across disciplines.

Distinguishing features

Recognised field of study

Own methods and communities

Institutionalised in universities

Boundaries shift over time

What it looks like

Departments, degrees, journals and conferences.

How it is recognised

Discipline names and codes

Classification schemes such as ISCED-F or OECD FORD

Interdisciplinary fields combine disciplines

Related models

is a kind of - category

field of study

includes - members

science, anthropology, political science

is taught at - institution

university

is classified by - schemes

ISCED-F and OECD FORD

In practice

Families and kinds

natural sciences

social sciences

humanities

formal sciences

applied and professional disciplines

interdisciplinary fields

Identifiers

ISCED-F code UNESCO field codes education statistics

OECD FORD code Fields of Research and Development research statistics

Standards and regulation

ISCED-F 2013

OECD Frascati Manual

Failure modes and hazards

Misclassifying interdisciplinary work

Treating boundaries as fixed

Also called

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Field Which discipline.

Disciplines differ.

Name

Discipline.

Name

Discipline.

  1. Which discipline is meant? definition
  2. What does it study? definition

Codes

Classification.

Codes

Classification codes.

  1. Which ISCED-F or FORD code applies? provenance
  2. Which version? provenance
Methods How it works.

Methods define disciplines.

Approach

Methods.

Approach

Methods.

  1. Which methods characterise the discipline? definition
  2. How are claims validated? provenance

Interdisciplinary

Crossings.

Interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinarity.

  1. Which disciplines does it overlap with? definition
  2. How is joint work organised? definition
Institutions Where it lives.

Disciplines are institutional.

Departments

Universities.

Departments

Departments.

  1. Where is it taught? provenance
  2. Which degrees are offered? definition

Journals

Publishing.

Journals

Journals and societies.

  1. Which journals and societies lead the field? provenance
  2. How are they ranked? boundary
Change Evolution.

Disciplines evolve.

History

Origins.

History

History.

  1. When did the discipline emerge? provenance
  2. How has it changed? provenance

Trends

Current directions.

Trends

Trends.

  1. What are current research directions? provenance
  2. Which reviews summarise them? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each discipline be a separate entry?
  • How should classification codes be linked?
  • Registry aliases include unrelated items; how should they be cleaned?
Draft as JSON