Knowledge Organization System (KOS): An Introductory Critical Account

Fulvio Mazzocchi

doi:10.5771/0943-7444-2018-1-54

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- 3–53 Articles 3–53
  - 3–12 Ethical Aspects in the Organization of Legislative Information Mariana Baptista Brandt Mariana Baptista Brandt 3–12
  - 13–22 The Domain of Knowledge Organization: A Bibliometric Analysis of Prolific Authors and Their Intellectual Space Renata Cristina Gutierres Castanha, Dietmar Wolfram Renata Cristina Gutierres Castanha, Dietmar Wolfram 13–22
  - 23–32 The Search Value Added by Professional Indexing to a Bibliographic Database Philip Hider Philip Hider 23–32
  - 33–42 Ontology of Folk Songs in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Nattapong Kaewboonma, KulthidaTuamsuk Nattapong Kaewboonma, KulthidaTuamsuk 33–42
  - 43–53 Classifying Phenomena, Part 4: Themes and Rhemes Claudio Gnoli Claudio Gnoli 43–53
- 54–78 Reviews of Concepts in Knowledge Organization 54–78
  - Knowledge Organization System (KOS): An Introductory Critical Account Fulvio Mazzocchi Fulvio Mazzocchi
- 79–84 Classification Research 79–84
  - Social Epistemology as Theoretical Foundation for Information Science: Supporting a Cultural Turn, Copenhagen, August 16-17, 2017 Jenna Hartel Jenna Hartel
- 85–89 Review 85–89
  - Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge by Melissa Adler. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2017 Carlin Soos Carlin Soos
- 90–90 Books recently published 90–90
- 91–92 Index to Volume 44 (2017) 91–92
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Knowledge Organization System (KOS): An Introductory Critical Account

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Fulvio Mazzocchi

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2018-1-54
- ISSN: 0943-7444
- ISSN online: 2942-3309
Abstract

This contribution discusses the notion of knowledge organization system (KOS), introducing both its broad and narrow meanings. It focuses more in-depth on KOSs as semantic tools, by critically analyzing a number of KOS typologies that have been proposed so far. Theoretical and practical issues are investigated too, focusing on the importance of epistemology and theory of concepts for KOS development. Besides, some remarks are made on how new trends in information organization (e.g., towards an increase of formalization and the employment of data-driven means) could affect the design of future KOSs, pondering whether “interpretation” and context-based evaluations still have a role to play in such an undertaking. A theoretical coda is finally provided, which scrutinizes the notion of “classificatory perspectivism,” and whether pluralism in KO research could take a (pragmatically based) integrative fashion.
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