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This paper aims to verify whether Generative Artificial Intelligence tools for image generation replicate biases and social stereotypes present in the dominant paradigm. A case study was carried out using the Leonardo.Ai tool, which generated images...

Adoption of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) across an increasingly diverse range of tasks and domains poses significant problems for authorial attribution and other basic knowl­edge organization practices. Utilizing methods from...

This paper investigates whether and how a national level general classification scheme expresses or reflects its creators’ government’s political stances and priorities. The following two national level general classification schemes were...

This article discusses the genesis and development of PRECIS Indexing System, its syntax and semantics, different formats and structure, and the primary notions underlying the system. It further explains how index entries are generated through a...

Critical strand of studies in Knowl­edge Organization (KO) and Library and Information Science (LIS) have been focused on gender bias and power inherent in the classification of knowl­edge artefacts. From the mid-2000s, attention turned to other...

This paper delves into the complexities and theoretical underpinnings of knowl­edge organization systems (KOS), focusing on domain analysis and facet analysis as methodologies, such as improving the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The...

This research aims to identify some patterns of author (as user) generated tags to the papers of library and information science field in Academia.edu. The research method is typically based on text analysis and word frequency distribution. The...

This article discusses the many usages and meanings of the term species in biology, as currently applied (1) to named taxa such as Homo sapiens and Panthera tigris, (2) to a rank (usually but not necessarily the lowest and/or the most fundamental...

The Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet) has been implementing some decolonial practices in its indigenous collection. Therefore, the museum started migrating its collection to a new platform, and as part of this project, the museum needs...

Information technology has brought many advantages for communications and new possibilities for knowledge organization, but also many ethical challenges and risks for groups at the social margins such as the LGBTIQ+ communities. Self-identifying...

Genealogical classification, also described in different contexts as “genetic”, “phylogenetic”, “historical” or “evolutionary”, is the classification of any set of entities according to their origin from pre-existing entities....

In this paper, we introduce epistemicide as an emerging theoretical framework for critical library and information studies alongside the well-known ones extensively covered in the literature of our field. Definitions of epistemicide and an aggregate...

Multilingualism and multiculturalism have become major preoccupations for Library and Information Science (LIS) which has to be as fair as possible to ensure and sustain knowledge diversity as a driver for development. This paper offers a broad...

This article first focuses on the emergence of a scholarly discourse on periodization. That discourse includes historians' efforts to diversify criteria for individuating periods, and philosophers' analyses of periodization as a form of...

Designers and maintainers of library catalogues are facing fresh challenges representing bibliographic relationships, due both to changes in cataloguing standards and to a broader information environment that has grown increasingly diverse,...

The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the representational approach to language using the concept of ‘Representationalism’ in philosophy and a new framework referred to in this paper as Information Retrieval Action (IRA). IRA is a...

At present, there is relatively little research on ancient Chinese texts in the field of digital humanities, and ancient Chinese information processing urgently needs new algorithms. To realize the word similarity calculation of pre-Qin classics, a...