Dear Colleagues,

The open access journal Information, devoted to the study of information in both its technical and its semantic senses, consecrates a Special Issue to the research field of knowledge organization (KO). Though having especially developed from the theory of classification and subject indexing as part of library and information science (LIS), KO also has many connections to philosophy of science, linguistics, and computer science. The purpose of this Special Issue is to strengthen the potential links between these fields and to promote conceptual clarification about their relationships and boundaries.

Should KO be treated only as a subset of the LIS community concerned with enabling access to information resources, or can it reach the status of an independent research field that only partially overlaps with LIS? Can a general theory of KO be developed, also covering the classification of the sciences, taxonomic principles within every science, cognitive principles ruling navigation across information sources, conceptual organization of learning curricula, etc.? How can all this be connected with such other information disciplines as information architecture, human–computer interaction, knowledge engineering, cybernetics, systems theory, or the physico-mathematical notion of information?

These questions can be investigated by either conceptual papers or papers discussing the structure and application of specific knowledge organization systems (KOSs) in light of the perspective described above.

Dr. Claudio Gnoli
Guest Editor

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• classification
• information theory
• library and information science (LIS)
• knowledge organization systems (KOSs)
• ontology
• philosophy of science
• subject access to information
• taxonomy