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conversion system on the meta-thesaurus, and the latter consists of simply merging, reductively
merging, fully merging, or synonymy & hyponymy merging. The best way we recommend is taking
target requirement, detailed context, cost and quality of knowledge unit and schema in thesauri
as well as feasibility into consideration, combined with the different technology of matching,
mapping and merging, and importing expert knowledge and reasonable control, so as to improve
the efficiency, accuracy and robustness of the fusion system. Another innovation of the “MtFFO”
framework is, to deal with the difficulty of thesauri expansion and enrichment, its introduction of
metadata, general knowledge base on the basis of graph model and machine learning algorithm to
mix all kinds of domain taxonomy, vocabulary and database together for data mining and knowledge
discovery of high quality knowledge unit.
Although “MtFFO” is merely a theoretical framework without any validation by systems in
practice, it can not only improve and develop the current theoretical system of knowledge fusion
to a certain extent but also scientifically sort out and integrate a variety of relevant methods
and crucial technology, providing thus theoretical basis and technical reference for solving the
problems of thesauri interoperability, semantic understanding and self-enriching mechanism.

No. 5

Information civilization and library development trend

〇a*
WANG Shiwei〇
The first part of this paper puts forward the proposition of information civilization and library
development trend. From the point of view of the vertical history of human civilization,
information civilization is a new form of civilization after agricultural civilization and industrial
civilization. The information revolution has allowed the information civilization to lead a new
change and new promotion of the library, create a new space and new form of library services,
expand the field and carriers of library services, and greatly improve the effectiveness and
efficiency of the library service.
The second part is about the development of the previous information civilization and the library.
Although information civilization is related to the post-industrial society, and the mid-twentieth
century is believed as the beginning of information civilization after the industrial civilization,
the civilization related to information carrier and the mode of information can be regarded as the
pre-information civilization, and its development has run through the history of the development
of human civilization. Such civilization elements of information including text information,

* Correspondence should be addressed to WANG Shiwei, Email: swwang@sass.org.cn, ORCID: 0000-0001-9179-9580