Interdisciplinary research has been a topic of interest for many decades–perhaps longer.
And yet, even now, there is still much we do not understand about how to stimulate …

KO is a field of research, teaching and practice, which is mostly affiliated with library and
information science (LIS). KO is first and foremost institutionalized in professorships at …

This contribution discusses the notion of knowledge organization system (KOS), introducing
both its broad and narrow meanings. It focuses more in-depth on KOSs as semantic tools, by …

The nature of information and knowledge, and the ways in which information services are
provided, differ considerably in different contexts. This is an important theoretical and …

The knowledge organization system prepared by the Library of Congress (LC) and widely
used in academic libraries has some disadvantages for researchers in the fields of African …

Digitalisation of research data and massive efforts to make it findable, accessible,
interoperable, and reusable has revealed that in addition to an eventual lack of description …

Embedded in interdisciplinary research, just as in disciplinary research, are statements of
purpose, theoretical frameworks, research questions, reviews of literature, methodology …

In this chapter we highlight research that illuminates the challenge of disciplinary diversity as
well as research that describes effective responses to this challenge. After a few preliminary …

This book provides a complete introduction to the rapidly expanding field of Knowledge
organization (KO), presenting historical precedents and theoretical foundations in a …

Purpose Sharing information about work processes has proven to be difficult. This applies
especially to information shared from those who participate in a process to those who …