Table of Contents (ToC)

Birger Hjorland

doi:10.5771/0943-7444-2022-2-98

Contents
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- 67–68 Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis 67–68
- 69–97 Articles 69–97
  - 69–78 Temporal Concept Drift and Alignment: An Empirical Approach to Comparing Knowledge Organization Systems Over Time Sam Grabus, Peter Melville Logan and, Jane Greenberg Sam Grabus, Peter Melville Logan and, Jane Greenberg 69–78
  - 79–86 ‘I Coulda Had Class’ – The Difficulties of Classifying Film in Library of Congress Classification and Dewey Decimal Classification Colin Higgins Colin Higgins 79–86
  - 87–97 Bio-Bibliometric Portrait of Mauro Guerrini: An Italian Specialist in Knowledge Organization and Cataloguing Alireza Noruzi, Behzad Gholampour, Sajad Gholampour, Carlo Bianchini, Alireza Noruzi, Behzad Gholampour, Sajad Gholampour, Carlo Bianchini, 87–97
- 98–138 Reviews of Concepts in Knowledge Organization 98–138
  - 98–120 Table of Contents (ToC) Birger Hjorland Birger Hjorland 98–120
  - 121–138 Genre as Knowledge Organization Pauline Rafferty Pauline Rafferty 121–138
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KO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION , page 98 - 120

Table of Contents (ToC)

Autoren

Birger Hjorland

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2022-2-98
- ISSN: 0943-7444
- ISSN online: 2942-3309
Abstract

A table of contents (ToC) is a kind of document representation as well as a paratext and a kind of finding device to the document it represents. TOCs are very common in books and some other kinds of documents, but not in all kinds. This article discusses the definition and functions of ToC, normative guidelines for their design, and the history and forms of ToC in different kinds of documents and media. A main part of the article is about the role of ToC in information searching, in current awareness services and as items added to bibliographical records. The introduction and the conclusion focus on the core theoretical issues concerning ToCs. Should they be document-oriented or request-oriented, neutral, or policy-oriented, objective, or subjective? It is concluded that because of the special functions of ToCs, the arguments for the request-oriented (policy-oriented, subjective) view are weaker than they are in relation to indexing and knowledge organization in general. Apart from level of granularity, the evaluation of a ToC is difficult to separate from the evaluation of the structuring and naming of the elements of the structure of the document it represents.
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