KO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

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...