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Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems

This section deals with the original purpose of Knowledge Organization Systems, namely to support activities such as indexing, tagging as well as providing the subject elements of descriptive metada.

In addition, you'll find a sample of scenarios where Knowledge Organization has been applied together with discussions on the associated challenges. Most of these examples are drawn from ISKO UK Meetup events over the last three years.  

Society of Indexers - 

Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: Understanding metadata and its use by David Haynes

Metadata by Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin


ISKO UK Meetup on Youtube is a collection of video-recordings of 13 talks, some of which present case studies of KO applications in various professional contexts. A sample is listed below

How taxonomies solve complex business problems by Ramona Aubry

Why graphs? The limits of hierarchical thinking by Bob Kasenchack

Creating an Ontology of Risk: a human-mediated process by David Haynes

 





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