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...Benildes Coura Moreira dos Santos Maculan Purpose This study examines classificatory decision-making as a situated ethical practice in knowledge organization, addressing the gap between theoretical discussions of ethics and their enactment in classificatory practice. Design/methodology/approach...

...Mónica Izquierdo-Alonso Purpose This study examines the transformation of the scientific abstract within the context of digital scholarly communication, reconceptualizing it as a complex form of knowledge representation situated at the intersection of knowledge organization, discourse studies...

...Sara Mandiá-Rubal Purpose This paper re-examines the relationship between information and knowledge organization in the context of contemporary digital infrastructures. Rather than asking whether semantic web technologies, linked data or artificial intelligence can organize knowledge, it argues...

...Amalia Nurma Dewi; Bent Sørensen; Martin Muderspach Thellefsen Purpose This paper aims to develop a multi-level ethical framework for the integration of large language models (LLMs) into knowledge organization (KO) and knowledge organization systems (KOS). It addresses the ontological shift from...

... on documentary analysis of Kaiser's works, especially Systematic Indexing (1911), and their critical reception in the specialized literature of Knowledge Organization. The analysis is complemented by a conceptual examination of the principles, categories and procedures that structure Systematic Indexing, within...

...Ryo Shiozaki Purpose Knowledge organization (KO) is essential infrastructure for document search and discovery, yet institutional investment in cataloging, indexing and metadata infrastructures continues to decline. This paper aims to develop an integrated economic framework for explaining chronic...

... knowledge organization systems for interdisciplinary research and digital environments. This paper proposes such a framework by drawing on the triadic model of phenomena developed by Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce’s categories – Firstness (quality and possibility), Secondness (existence and interaction...

...Koraljka Golub; Rick Szostak Purpose This paper explores the longstanding disconnect between Knowledge Organization (KO) and Information Retrieval (IR), advocating for their integration to improve subject access in humanities and cultural heritage (CH) collections, including newer types...

... internal documentation and external references to establish a unified knowledge organization system. The taxonomy was then analyzed to evaluate its benefits and limitations in a cultural heritage network context. Findings The development process revealed that integrating terms from varied sources...

...Martin Muderspach Thellefsen; Bent Sørensen; Amalia Nurma Dewi Purpose This paper adopts a transdisciplinary semiotic perspective to examine how the generative capacities of large language models (LLMs) reconfigure foundational assumptions in knowledge organization (KO) and meaning-making. It aims...

...John Kausch Purpose This study aims to outline knowledge translation as a method for practising interdisciplinarity in a domain-analytic context which uses new machine learning technologies to improve interoperability between knowledge organisation systems (KOSs). Design/methodology/approach...

... Knowledge organization Hyerim Cho can be contacted at: hyerimcho@missouri.edu 10 10 2024 02 01 2025 05 01 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The investigation above shows that mood metadata is either...

... reverberates in the depiction of information objects as well as in comprehending information behavior and the needs of its users. Semiotics Knowledge organization Concepts of information Pluralist view Sign systems Universalist view The definition of information has been a subject of ongoing...

... is based on both authors’ subject knowledge in the field of information science (IS) and the subfield of knowledge organization (KO). Core concepts in this domain were examined (1) by checking if they are present or not in the system; (2) if not, by determining whether LCSH contains alternative terms...

... of this article is the conceptualization of the organization of knowledge as both a decentered and centered practice in digital culture, from which is developed a particular knowledge organization perspective on social reality. Thus, while lists and bibliographies as particular forms of writing and arranging...

...Li Si; Yi He; Li Liu Purpose Knowledge organization (KO) has been advancing at a progressively rapid pace under the influence of information technology. This study aims to explore the topics, characteristics, and trends of KO research in the 21st century. Design/methodology/approach The full...

...Martin Muderspach Thellefsen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss and clarify a possible realist foundation of domain analysis and knowledge organization, and in this vein, investigate into how the concept of information is to be understood at a lower but necessary conceptual level...

... in IS. This paper conducts a systematic review of representative publications of domain analysis. The analysis considered degree theses, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and other materials. Information science Domain analysis Paradigm Philosophy Knowledge organization...

...Jack Andersen Instigating this mapping is a concern about to what extent knowledge organization research is theoretically and empirically responding to the manifold of activities and practices of ordering, archiving and searching in digital culture with social, cultural and political...