KO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

Definitions serve a range of purposes, including providing meaning to a term, describing the characteristics of an object being defined, eliminating any ambiguity about the meaning of a term, demonstrating the etymology of a word, and so on....

This paper presents the creation of a thesaurus in the Maritime Heritage (MH) field. The suggested controlled vocabulary could improve methods for archiving oral sources, written accounts, imagery, 3D archeology, and other multimedia objects related...

The field of Knowl­edge Organization should recognize additional purposes beyond classifying documents for retrieval. These additional purposes can, in turn, guide us in developing Knowl­edge Organization Systems. A synthetic phenomenon-based...

Digital archives of memory institutions are typically concerned with the cataloguing of artefacts of artistic, historical, and cultural value. However, experiencing cultural heritage requires engaging with the so-called cultural background...

The growing number of literary works being produced and published has emphasised the importance of better cataloguing methods to handle the increasing volume effectively. One specific issue is the lack of organising works by time periods, which is...

Semantic enrichment techniques and tools based on knowl­edge organization systems (KOS) have an important role to play in supporting information discovery. This paper reports on work investigating and developing automatic indexing techniques (for...

We explore the similarities and differences between the two ontologies based on different conceptual models that can be used in archival knowl­edge organization systems. The first model, RiC-CM, was developed by the International Council on...

Specialized reference works operate as catalysts and organizers of the terminological processes involved in the evolution of specialized concepts. This research aims to identify the term ‘knowl­edge organization system’ records and its...

Navigating online bookstores and library catalogues for leisure reading can be challenging, especially when people want to engage in a more exploratory and serendipitous search. This study investigated how users navigate and select novels in an...