Vol. 33 (2006) N°4
Knowledge Organization International Journal |
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Devoted to Concept Theory, Classification, Indexing, and Knowledge Representation
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CONTENT Editorial Feature AbstractThe design of records classification systems has been subject
to various and often inconsistent approaches. Subject matters, record types and forms, structures
and functiona of the organization: archivists and record managers (whether consciously or unconsciously)
have traditionally referred to any of these elements, or to a mix of some or all of them, when developing
their classification tools. Only in recent times has the concept of function become central to theory, method,
and practice of records classification. I discuss advantages and limitations of the functional approach applied to
records classification by showing how it has been interpreted in the literature of different countries.
Alireza Noruzi. Folksonomies: (Un)Controlled Vocabulary? AbstractFolksonomy, a free-form tagging, is a user-generated classification system of web contents
that allows users to tag their favourite web resources with their chosen words or phrases selected from natural language. These tags
(also called concepts, categories, factes or entities) can be used to classify web resources and to express users' preferences. Folksonomy-based
systems allow users to classify web resources through tagging bookmarks, photos or other web resources and saving them to a public web site like
Del.icio.us. Thus information about web resources and online articles can be shared in an easy way. The purpose of this study is to provide an
overview of the folksonomy tagging phenomenon (also called social tagging and social bookmarking) and explore some of the reasons why we need
controlled vocabularies, discussing the problems associated with folksonomy.
Article AbstractSeveral systems for the classification of fiction have been proposed to date, but experience shows
that such classification partially depends on the culture and literary education in specific countries. Slovenian public libraries
have traditionally used UDC as the only subject information on belles-lettres. Research has shown that users would prefer richer subject
information. Therefore an attempt was made to enhance UDC by adding subject information, that should be helpful to users and librarians.
The newely proposed Alternative Model system contains lists of verbal and alpha-numerical denotations for the basic groups of belles-lettres
book material (main genres: lyrics, drama, epics) and all other categorical criteria (language of the original literary work, literature to
which the work belongs, genre, sub-genre) and half-categorical (accessibility of the content of literary works, origin within the periods of
literary history, the century in which the literary work was written, the rhythm of the language). All these lists are available, but not
included in this paper. The idea of the Alternative Model system is to show the possibilities of making the classification of belles-lettres in
libraries more helpful, efficient and exact."
Book Reviews BROUGHTON, V. Essential Thesaurus Construction. London: Facet, 2006. viii, 296 p. ISBN-13: 978-1-85604-565-0 (pb). Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 23 (2/3), May 2006, p. 1-50. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia: Knowledge Systems and Services. Vol. 12 (2006) issue 1. Report International Society for Knowledge Organization: Ninth International ISKO Confernece, Vienna, Austria, 2006, Knowledge Organization Literature Personal Author Index ERGON-VERLAG |