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A selection of topics in the field of knowledge organization and resources available on the Web
KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION TOPICS
also... Taxonomy Strategies Library
  Resources on Knowledge Organization and Classification (The Knowledge Management Connection)
  HILT project Bibliography
  FATKS project "Reading list"
  ISKO Italy - Bibliografia
   
   
Automatic classification  
  "Report on automatic classification systems" by Peter Gietz
  "Search & Categorisation Technologies" by Nic Holt
   
  "Automated subject classification of textual Web pages, based on a controlled vocabulary: challenges and recommendations" [preprint] by Koraljka Golub
  "Automated subject classification of textual Web documents" [preprint] by Koraljka Golub
   
Bibliometrics  
  Category 'bibliometrics' in dLIST open archive contains 49 articles
   
Classification  
  "A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library" by Melvil Dewey
   
  "Classification and Communication" by S. R. Ranganathan
  "Philosophy of Library Classification" by S. R. Ranganathan
  "Prolegomena to library classification" by S. R. Ranganathan
     
  "The rise of ontologies or the reinvention of classification" by Dagobert Soergel
  "James Duff Brown's Subject Classification and evaluation methods for classification systems" by Clare Beghtol
  "Faceted Indexing Based System for Organizing and Accessing Internet" by Francis Devadason
  "Facet analysis and Semantic Web : musings of a student of Ranganathan" by Francis Devadason
  "BC2 classes for phenomena : an application of the theory of integrative levels" by Claudio Gnoli
  "Faceted classification for community services using CRG standard categories" by Luca Rosati, Claudio Gnoli and Maria Elisabetta
  "Principles of knowledge organization: analysis and structures in the networked environment" by Joe Tennis
   
Content management
 
  Articles at the British Computer Society's Content Management area
  Metatorial.com - by the author of "The Content Management Bible" Bob Boiko
   
  "So, what is a content management system?" by James Robertson
  "A review of open source content management systems" by Elliot Smith
  "Zope: Web Application Development and Content Management" [book by] By Steven Spicklemire, Jerry Spicklemire, Kevin Friedly, Kim Brand
  "Web Content Management" by Richard Vidgen, Steve Goodwin, Stuart Barnes
   
Controlled vocabulary  
  "Construction of Controlled Vocabularies: a primer" by Marcia Zeng
  Thesauri and vocabulary control: Principles and practice - Glossary - Sources of information - Thesaurus software (by Leonard and Sheena Will)
   
  "Controlled vocabularies as a sphere of influence" by Anita Coleman
   
Document management  
   
Documentation  
  "Documentation genesis and development" by S.R. Ranganathan
  "The five laws of library science" by S.R. Ranganathan
   
  "The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography/ International Federation for Information and documentation (FID)" by W. Boyd Rayward
  "The International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID)" by W. Boyd Rayward
   
  "Blunt dialectics" seminar by J. Lindsay
   
Indexing  
  "Revisiting the Preserved Context Index System (PRECIS): the bridge between hierarchically structured thesauri and facetted classification" by Barbara Kwasnik
   
  "Multilingual access to information using an intermediate language" [PhD thesis) by Victoria Francu
   
  Classaurus , by F. J. Devadason (the online version of the article published in Processing and Management, Vol. 21(1985); No.1; p 11-26.)
  Subject Indexing Language: Its Theory and Practice by Bhattacharyya
  "Expressing faceted subject indexing in SKOS/RDF" by Nabonita Guha
   
  "String Indexing" [a book] by T. Craven
  An introduction to chain indexing: Web edition of a programmed text, by T.D. Wilson
Information architecture  
  "Towards a general relation browser : a GUI for information architects", by G. Marchionini and B. Brunk, Journal of Digital Information, 4 (1) 2003.
   
Information, data, knowledge, documents
What is a document? by Michael Buckland
What is a digital document? by Michael Buckland
   
  Document: Form, Sign and Medium, As Reformulated for Electronic Documents by R. T. Pédauque
   
Information management
Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! by Lars Marius Garshol
Willpower Information (by Leonard and Sheena Will)
What is "Information management"?
Bibliography on information management
History of Information Management (by Michael Buckland)
   
Information retrieval
Text Retrieval Conferences
TAPIR - Text Access Potentials for Interactive Information Retrieval
"Information retrieval: a book" by C. J. van Rijsbergen
 
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR 2007)
 
"The geometry of information retrieval and the dimensions of perception [draft paper]" by C. J. van Rijsbergen
"From data storage to information retrieval" by Tony Rose
"After the Dot-bombs: getting Web information retrieval right this time" by Marcia Bates
  "Mapping the interoperability landscape for networked information retrieval : workshop report" by W. E. Moen
  "An Overview of results from Rutgers' investigations of interactive information retrieval" by N. Belkin
  "Intelligent information retrieval: whose intelligence?" by N. Belkin
  The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval by Michael Lesk
   
Information science
"Information science" by Tefko Saracevic
"Toward a theoretical framework for information science" by Amanda Spink
"The Understanding of ‘Information’ and Information Science" by Cana Mentor
 
The J. Z. Nitecki Trilogy
"Metalibrarianship: a model for intellectual foundations of library information science"
"Philosophical ancestry of the American library information science"
"Philosophical aspects of library information science in retrospect"
"Conceptions of library and information science" Edited by Pertti Vakkari and Blaise Cronin
 
"Epistemology and Information Science" by Rafael Capurro
"Towards an Ontological Foundation of Information Ethics" by Rafael Capurro
Hermeneutik der Fachinformation ("Hermeneutics of scientific information") by Rafael Capurro
The Epistemological Lifeboat - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science for Information Scientists (by Birger Hjørland & Jeppe Nicolaisen)Information Ethics
   
Information science education  
  European Council of Information Associations (ECIA) "Euroguide LIS: Volume 1: competencies and aptitudes for European information professionals". Paris: ADBS Editions, 2004. ISBN 2-84365-073-9
  European Council of Information Associations (ECIA) "Euroguide LIS: Volume 2: levels of qualification for European information professionals", Paris: ADBS, 2004. ISBN 2-84365-074-7
   
   
Knowledge
Portal to human knowledge by Chaim Zins
"Knowledge Map of Information Science" Rafael Capurro responses to Chaim Zins
Stable knowledge? by Rafael Capurro
Human knowledge: foundations and limits by Brian Holtz
   
Knowledge organization  
  Approaches to Knowledge Organization [presentation] by Birger Hjørland
   
   
Knowledge organization systems  
  The 5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop (2006)
  "Next Generation Knowledge Organization Systems: Integration Challenges and Strategies" The 7th NKOS JCDL Workshop
  "Building a Meaningful Web: From Traditional Knowledge Organization Systems to New Semantic Tools" The 6th NKOS JCDL Workshop
  Workshop summary by Dagobert Soergel
   
  Terminology Services and Technology JISC state of the art review by D. Tudhope, R. Heery, T. Koch
  "Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries" by G. Hodge
  "New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems" a special issue of JoDI
  The reference system of relational semantics in knowledge organization systems" by Baiba Holma
   
Knowledge presentation
The Challenge of Knowledge Soup by J. F. Sowa
Representing Knowledge Soup in Language and Logic by J. F. Sowa
   
 
Metadata
UKOLN - Metadata [website]
Metadata.Net
W3C Metadata Activity Statement
  Metadata and Cataloging Online Resources
  The Dublin Core Metadata Registry
   
  "Introduction to metadata: pathways to digital information" Edited by Murtha Baca
  "Metadata--Think outside the docs!" by Bob Doyle
  "Metadata Basics" (originally created by Marcia Zeng)
  "Metadata's many meanings and uses" (January 2007) by Conrad Taylor
   
Ontology  
  Sites Relevant to Ontologies and Knowledge Sharing by Richard Fikes
  Cyc
   
  "The rise of ontologies or the reinvention of classification" by Dagobert Soergel
  "Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing" by Tom Gruber
  What is an Ontology? by Tom Gruber
  "Ontology for knowledge organization" by Roberto Poli
  "Understanding, building and using ontologies" by N. Guarino
  "Ontologies come of age: spinning the semantic web: bringing the World Wide Web to its full potential" by D. L. McGuinness
  "Ontology metadata framework" by Luis Bermudez
   
OPAC  
  OPAC Semantici - Bibliographia - bibliography of the Italian libraries network project
   
Semantic Web  
  "Weaving Meaning : An Overview of The Semantic Web" [presentation] by Eric Miller
  "Semantic (Web) Technology In Action: Ontology Driven Information Systems for Search, Integration and Analysis" by Amit Sheth and Cartic Ramakrishnan
  "Relationships at the Heart of Semantic Web: Modeling, Discovering, and Exploiting Complex Semantic Relationships" by Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, and Vipul Kashyap
   
Social software see Web 2.0
   
Social tagging
(social bookmarking, folksonomies)
17th Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop "Social Classification: Panacea or Pandora?", Austin, Texas, 4 November 2006
Tennis, Joseph T (2006) Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing
Kipp. Margaret E. I. (2006) @toread and Cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion
 
"Tagging, Folksonomy & Co - Renaissance of Manual Indexing?" by Jacob Voss
Social consequences of social tagging by Liz Lawley
Market populism in the folksonomies debate by Gene Smith
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags by Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky's Viewpoints are Overrated by Peter Merholz
 
Thesaurus  
NISO 39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and management of Monolingual Thesauri
 
Thesauri and vocabulary control: Principles and practice by L. and S. Will
Topic Maps  
  "Topic Maps for Knowledge Organization and Knowledge Management" ISI 2000 Tutorial by Steve Pepper, Alexander Sigel, Ingrid Schmidt & Carolin Müller
  "Topic Maps in Knowledge Organization" by Alexander Sigel
  "Towards knowledge organization with Topic Maps" by Alexander Sigel
   
Web 2.0
Many2Many: a weblog on social software
Phil Bradley's "I want to page " and "I want to blog"
Web 2.0 - a new generation of services: Part1" by Phil Bradley
Web 2.0 - a new generation of services: Part 2" by Phil Bradley
 
Web 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, 2-9 Now 2006 "Disruption & Opportunity"
 
"Social Bookmarking Tools (I): a general overview" by T. Hammond, T. Hannay, B. Lund and J. Scott
"Social Bookmarking Tools (II) a case study - Connotea" by B. Lund, T. Hammond, M. Flack, Hannay, T. T. Hammond, T. Hannay, B. Lund and J. Scott