The purpose of this chapter is to characterize knowledge organization (KO) as a field that is
affected by geographic and diachronic variations in such a way that the recognition of a …

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 …

Search systems are increasingly used for gaining knowledge through accessing relevant
resources from a vast volume of content. However, search systems provide only limited …

When groups of people are represented in classification systems, potential exists for them to
be structurally or linguistically subordinated, erased or otherwise misrepresented (Olson & …

This paper presents an international literature review on the hot topic of library users'
information retrieval behaviour in recent years. Through the usage of bibliometric content …

This book critically examines the organization of knowledge as it is involved in matters of
digital communication, the social, cultural and political consequences of classifying, and …

Nos avanços das teorias sociocognitivas na Ciência da Informação (CI), observa-se uma
crescente importância dos estudos de análise de domínio, que se refletem na produção …

A leitura documentária é realizada durante a análise de assunto, considerada a primeira
etapa de vários processos, incluindo a indexação e a catalogação de assunto. Seu objetivo …

Los estudios acerca de la dimensión cultural de la organización del conocimiento vienen
ganando un papel notorio en las comunicaciones científicas, revelando su importancia en el …

This study explores the usefulness of the two dominant schools of semiotics, the pragmatic
and the structuralist, in the context of knowledge organization. Semiotics is a theoretical and …