I S K O

Knowledge Organization

Knowledge Organization (ISSN 0943-7444) is the official quarterly journal of ISKO. It was founded in 1973 by Dr. Ingetraut Dahlberg, the first President of ISKO, with a consulting board of editors representing the world's regions, the special classification fields, and the subject areas involved. The journal began publication in 1974 with the title International Classification; in 1989, it became the official organ of ISKO; and in 1993 (Volume 20), the title was changed to its present form. From 1974 to 1980 it was published by K. G. Saur Verlag of München; from 1981 to 1997 by Indeks Verlag of Frankfurt; and since 1998 by Ergon Verlag of Würzburg. The contents of the journal are indexed and abstracted in Information Science Abstracts, INSPEC, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library Literature, PASCAL, Referativnyi Zhurnal Informatika, and Sociological Abstracts.

Knowledge Organization publishes original articles, reports on conferences and similar communications, the newsletter of ISKO (ISKO News), as well as book reviews, letters to the editor, and an extensive annotated bibliography of recent classification and indexing literature, covering some 500 items in each issue.

Scope of KO: In each issue, experts from many countries comment on questions of the adequate structuring and construction of ordering systems and on the problems of their use in providing access to the information contents of new literature, of data collections and survey, of tabular works and of other objects of scientific interest. Contributions: (1) clarify theoretical foundations (general ordering theory, philosophical foundations of knowledge and its artifacts, theoretical bases of classification, data analysis and reduction); (2) describe practical operations associated with indexing and classification, as well as applications of classification systems and thesauri, manual and machine indexing; (3) trace the history of knowledge organization; (4) discuss questions of education and training in classification; and (5) problems of terminology in general and with respect to special fields.

Status of current issue

Volume 35, no. 1 (2008) of KO was mailed to subscribers on May 5, 2008. Volume 35, no. 2/3 (2008) is at press.

Tables of contents

A complete list of tables of contents and abstracts from vol. 27 (2000) of KO to date is available here.

Submission of manuscripts

Instructions for authors intending to submit manuscripts to Knowledge Organization are available here. All inquiries about submission of manuscripts should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief, Richard P. Smiraglia, whose contact details are as follows:

Mail:

  • Palmer School of Library and Information Science
    Long Island University
    720 Northern Blvd
    Brookville, NY 11548

Email:

Fax:

  • +1 (516) 299-4168

Subscriptions and advertising

All ISKO members receive paper and electronic copies of Knowledge Organization (see the Join ISKO page for details on how to become a member of ISKO). All subscription inquiries by non-members, and all inquiries about advertising, should be directed to the publishers, Ergon Verlag. The annual non-member subscription rate for four issues is 115 euros. Ergon's contact details are as follows:

Mail:

  • Dr. H.-J. Dietrich
    Ergon Verlag
    Grombühlstrasse 7
    97080 Würzburg
    GERMANY

Email:

Telephone:

  • +49 (931) 280-084

Fax:

  • +49 (931) 282-872

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Book Review Editor

Literature Editor

Classification Research News Editor

Communications Editor

Editorial Assistant

  • Gabriel McKee (Long Island University, USA)

Consulting Editors

  • Clare Beghtol (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna, Austria)
  • Jesús Gascón García (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
  • Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia, Italy)
  • Rebecca Green (Library of Congress, USA)
  • Birger Hjørland (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)
  • Barbara H. Kwasnik (Syracuse University, USA)
  • Jens-Erik Mai (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Joan S. Mitchell (Library of Congress, USA)
  • Widad Mustafa el Hadi (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille 3, France)
  • H. Peter Ohly (IZ Sozialwissenschaften, Germany)
  • Hope A. Olson (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, USA)
  • Annelise Mark Pejtersen (Risø National Laboratory, Denmark)
  • M. P. Satija (Guru Nanak Dev University, India)
  • Winfried Schmitz-Esser (Tirol, Austria)
  • J. F. (Jos) Schreinemakers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  • Otto Sechser (Zürich, Switzerland)
  • Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Eduard R. Sukiasyan (Moscow, Russia)
  • Joseph T. Tennis (University of Washington, USA)
  • Martin van der Walt (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
  • Harald Zimmermann (Softex, Germany)

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