KO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

This article presents bibliography as a field of study. It consists of several traditions, of which enumerative (or “systematic”) bibliography is considered most important in relation to information science, but at the same time tends to be...

This article explores critical archival studies as an emerging trend in the archival field, analyzing its relationship with domain analysis (DA), a methodological-theoretical approach within knowledge organization (KO). The objectives are: 1) to...

Historically, library materials about diverse identities have often been subject to what Gough and Greenblatt (1992) term “systemic bibliographic invisibility,” the use of “outmoded, prejudicial, inadequate, or inappropriate terminology”...

Objective: It aims to map, analyze thematically, semantically, and discursively the articles published in the area of Knowledge Organization within the five published volumes of the events of the International Society of Knowledge Organization...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in three women worldwide has experienced some form of physical or sexual violence. In Brazil, in 2022, about 30% suffered some form of gender-based violence, with the number of women's homicides...

The situation of many indigenous cultures in Australia, North, Central, and South America can be described as one of marginalization or minorization. Subject representation of Indigenous knowledge constitutes one of the contemporary crossroads...

Recent years have seen considerable growth of online multimedia databases, largely due to digitization processes in different sectors of society. Knowledge organization and representation strategies were used to qualify and enrich data and metadata...

The 2019 United Nations General Assembly declared that the years of 2022 to 2032 will encompass the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Within this context, information Science (IC) and knowledge organization (OC) play a central role in...

In this paper, I argue that the most provocative work in critical knowledge organization is happening at the level of process. I present three persistent assumptions about knowledge organization work and current provocations that challenge them....

Sort of People: Considerations About the Ontogeny of Autism in the DDC, 1942-2023 traces the ontogeny of autism within the Dewey Decimal System, from the 14th to the 23rd editions. This period marks significant shifts in the psychiatric...

Controlled vocabularies are widely used in Knowl­edge Organization Systems (KOS); however; they are criticized for perpetuating biases, being slow to change, and not reflecting the language of many groups and cultures. This paper examines and...

Terminology used in dementia care is fiercely contested. Advocates, health care providers, and researchers often have divergent perspectives on how aspects of dementia can and should be described. We created the Behaviours in Dementia Toolkit – a...

This study examines the historical perception of knowl­edge organization systems (KOS) as reinforcing oppressive regimes and epistemicides, particularly regarding issues such as race, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies. Drawing on the concepts...

The social stigmatization affecting patients with serious mental disorders, as well as the evolution of patients’ right to information, calls for a more inclusive approach to the production of concepts in classifications. Failing to do so, medical...

Traditionally, the selection of concepts and terms within a knowl­edge organization system (KOS) has served to reflect a socially constructed but majority opinion on language and therefore represent the perspectives of dominant groups. Members of a...

This paper traces the impacts knowl­edge organization systems have upon what can be known through them, the identities they create or deny, and the resulting structure of reality they uphold. We conceptualize classificatory systems of record to...

In developing and using knowledge organization systems (KOSs), it is important not to perpetuate historically privileged views that reproduce a representation and organization guided by a dominant logic. This study aimed to analyze terms in two...

This article details the Anglo-American library cataloging tradition. Cataloging is a knowledge organization process through which resources are represented in the context of a catalog. Emerging from the work of individual libraries in the United...

There is burgeoning interest in decolonizing the library catalog to recognize and remove longstanding bias. This article takes a step back and examines how theories about human classification from antiquity informed 18th and 19th century ideas of...