The Elements of Knowledge Organization

• Main Author: Smiraglia, Richard P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Philosophy.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Linguistics.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Linguistics, general.; Philosophy, general.

The Elements of Knowledge Organization is a unique and original work introducing the fundamental concepts related to the field of Knowledge Organization (KO). There is no other book like it currently available. The author begins the book with a comprehensive discussion of “knowledge” and its associa...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• About the Theory of Knowledge Organization
• Philosophy: Underpinnings of Knowledge Organization
• History: From Bibliographic Control to Knowledge Organization
• Ontology
• Taxonomy
• Classification: Bringing Order with Concepts
• Metadata
• Thesauri
• Domain analysis.