Introduction to Knowledge Organization

Author:   Claudio Gnoli
Publisher:   Facet Publishing
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9781783304653


Pages:   104
Publication Date:   15 July 2020
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Author:   Claudio Gnoli
Publisher:   Facet Publishing
Imprint:   Facet Publishing
ISBN:  

9781783304653


ISBN 10:   1783304650
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   15 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents List of abbreviations 1 Focusing the field 1.1 What is knowledge? 1.1.1 Knowledge as representation of networks 1.1.2 Data, information, knowledge, understanding, wisdom 1.1.3 Informational systems at various levels 1.2 What is organization? 1.3 What is knowledge organization (KO)? 1.3.1 Personal and social knowledge 1.3.2 Knowledge as recorded in documents 1.3.3 Organizing public contents 1.4 A brief history of KO 1.4.1 KO in early civilizations 1.4.2 KO in the ancient East 1.4.3 KO in ancient Greece 1.4.4 KO in the Middle Ages 1.4.5 KO in early Modernity 1.4.6 Classification in modern libraries 1.4.7 KO in the Digital Age 2 Theories of knowledge organization 2.1 Theories are needed 2.2 From precepts to concepts 2.3 Bottom-up and top-down procedures 2.4 The dimensions of knowledge 2.4.1 User-based approaches 2.4.2 Collection approaches 2.4.3 Documental approaches 2.4.4 Perspective approaches 2.4.5 Phenomenon approaches 3 Structural principles in knowledge organization 3.1 Words in natural language 3.2 Terms in controlled vocabularies 3.3 Lists 3.3.1 Alphabetical vs systematic order 3.3.2 Literary warrant 3.3.3 Canonical sequence 3.3.4 Increasing complexity 3.3.5 Quantitative measure 3.3.6 Spatial contiguity 3.3.7 Later-in-evolution 3.3.8 Later-in-time 3.4 Hierarchies 3.4.1 Types 3.4.2 Parts 3.4.3 Instances 3.5 Facets 3.5.1 Fundamental categories 3.5.2 Citation order of facets 3.5.3 Sources of foci 3.5.4 Common facets 3.6 Themes 3.4.1 Base theme and particular themes 3.4.2 Phase relationships and free facets 3.4.3 Rhemes 3.4.4 How much syntax is needed? 4 Knowledge organization systems (KOS) 4.1 The notion of KOS 4.2 The collection dimension of a KOS 4.3 Special and general KOS 4.4 KOS types 4.4.1 Keyword systems and folksonomies 4.4.2 Taxonomies 4.4.3 Subject heading lists 4.4.4 Thesauri 4.4.5 Classification schemes 4.4.6 Ontologies 5 Representation of knowledge organization structures 5.1 Headings in paper catalogues catalogs and indexes 5.2 Subject authority data in bibliographic databases 5.3 Subject metadata of digital documents 5.4 The Semantic Web and linked data 5.5 KOSs as linked data 6 Applying knowledge organization 6.1 Organizing phenomena 6.2 Organizing educational and reference contents 6.3 Indexing documents 6.3.1 Content analysis 6.3.2 Content representation 6.3.3 Automatic methods 6.3.4 Non-textual documents 6.4 Organizing collections 6.5 KO in the digital environment 6.5.1 Applying KO to digital documents 6.5.2 Problems and benefits of digital KO 6.5.3 Designing organized interfaces 6.6 Conclusion References Index

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'Gnoli's text is a well-written, brief, but mighty introduction to knowledge organisation. This book should be acquired by instructors and students of information organization courses who not only want an overview of knowledge organization concepts but want to deepen their understanding of answers to a range of theoretical and practical questions in the field'. - Technical Services Quarterly


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Claudio Gnoli is an academic librarian and researcher in knowledge organization at the University of Pavia, Italy. His work focuses on Knowledge organization theory and KO systems - especially faceted classification schemes - and their application to digital information systems. He is co-author of Interdisciplinary Knowledge Organization with R. Szostak and M. Lopez-Huertas (2016), co-editor of the ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization and author of numerous journal articles, conference proceedings and four Italian-language titles. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, and he serves on the editorial board of the Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC).

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