@article{2020:smiraglia:isko_16,
title = {ISKO 16’s Bookshelf: Knowledge Organization on the Verge of the Pandemic—An Editorial},
year = {2020},
note = {The Sixteenth International Conference on Knowledge Organization was
to have been held in Aalborg, Denmark in July 2020. Cancelled due to
COVID-19, the proceedings were published online on 4 December 2020
containing 48 full papers, 17 short papers and 14 posters. Informetric
analysis of the proceedings reveals the shifting intension and
extension of the knowledge organization domain. International
participation was extensive as usual. There is a much larger share of
empirical and applied technical research, and therefore much less
historical or analytical work than before. The shape of the research
front continues to revolve around concept theory and domain analysis,
but cultural and ethical issues are more prevalent than before, having
attained nearly core status. There is new emphasis on concepts around
interdisciplinarity and phenomenon-based knowledge organization
systems, and facet analytical theory has been extended into new
approaches in the linked data environment. There are more journal
articles than before. No monographs are highly cited but
interdisciplinarity, Wittgenstein, domain analysis and music
classification are prominent alongside archival science and ontology
construction on the bookshelf for this conference. Among conferences
ISKO and its chapters predominate. The discourse represented by the
works on ISKO 16’s bookshelf seems to be rooted in classical concept
theory. There is some concretization of discourse concerning
interoperability and the continued distancing from ideas of single or
“universal” knowledge organization systems. There is a recurrence
of concepts of warrant buttressing the extension of research into
issues of culture and identity.},
journal = {KO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION},
pages = {619--630},
author = {Smiraglia, Richard P.},
volume = {47},
number = {8}
}