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 …

Purpose The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to provide a nuanced understanding of the
information concept that encapsulates both its universal foundations and context-dependent …

In this paper we adopt Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of iconicity to analyse pictural
communication. While visual semiotics has a well-developed structural school, the concepts …

In this paper the category of density is introduced as a parameter for the measurement of the
level of semantic contextualization of Knowledge Organization Systems. Based on previous …

The field of Library and Information Science (LIS) suffers from a fragmented view on
information. Within LIS there are three dominating perspectives, which operates with three …

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to study the concept of information through the lens
of semiotics, especially the Peirce's sign model. Methodology: This study is an analytical …