ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization (IEKO)

Knowledge organization: general and historical issues

• Disciplines and related fields: Knowledge organization (KO); Education in KO; KO, Origins of the field; Archival science; Archive, library and museum studies (ABM); Bibliography; Information retrieval; Library and information science (LIS); Metaphysics and ontology
• History of classification and KO: Classification of sciences in Greco-Roman antiquity; Library classification: parts 1, 2, 3; Peirce’s classification of the sciences
• Movements and bodies: Classification Research Group (CRG); ISKO
• Biographical articles (non-living persons only, by birth time): Aristotle; Conrad Gesner; Carl Linnaeus; Auguste Comte; James Duff Brown; Paul Otlet; Henry Evelyn Bliss; S.R. Ranganathan; Éric de Grolier; Eric Coates; Brian C. Vickery; Jean-Claude Gardin; Patrick Wilson; Ingetraut Dahlberg; Susan Leigh Star

Core concepts in KO

• Theoretical concepts: Category; Classification; Concept; Discipline; Data; Document; Facet; Hierarchy; Knowledge pyramid; Literary warrant; Paratext; Provenance; Science; Semantic relation; Subject (of documents); Theme; Title; Work
• Specific document types, genres and media: Data documents; Database; Encyclopedia; Gazetteer; Hypertext; National bibliography; Patent

Knowledge organizing systems (KOS)

• KOS general issues: Alphabetization; Evaluation of KOSs; Functions of KOSs; History of KO; IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM); Knowledge organization system (KOS); Notation; Subject access point (SAP); Vocabulary control
• KOS kinds: ✎ Classification system; Folksonomy → Tagging; Keyword; Ontologies (as KOSs); Subject heading system; Thesaurus (for information retrieval); Topic map
• KOS, specific (general/universal): Bibliographic, by time: Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC); Universal Decimal Classification (UDC); Colon Classification (CC); Library-Bibliographical Classification (LBC, Russia); Nippon Decimal Classification (NDC); Korean Decimal Classification (KDC); Chinese Library Classification (CLC); Bliss Classification 2nd ed. (BC2); Broad System of Ordering (BSO); Integrative Levels Classification (ILC); Basic Concepts Classification (BCC); Other: BISAC subject headings list; Canadian Research and Development Classification (CRDC)
• KOS, specific (domain specific): Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT); Astronomy's Three Kingdom System; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM); INSPEC; Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments; the Linnaean hierarchy; Medical Subject Headings (MeSH); Canada's National Occupational Classification (NOC); Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging; Periodical system of physics and chemistry; Physics Subject Headings (PhySH); RILM Index (Répertoire international de littérature musicale); STW Thesaurus for Economics
• KO in specific domains: Archaeology and KO; Art studies and KO; Chemistry and KO; Color classification; Fictional literature classification and indexing; Language classification; Mathematics in classification systems; Music KO; Periodization; Picture indexing; Psychology, classification of; Soil classification
• Standards and formats for representing data: Anglo-American library cataloging; Interoperability; Markup languages; Metadata; Resource Description and Access (RDA); SKOS; Standards and standardization

Knowledge organizing processes (KOP)

• Automatic subject indexing of text; Citation indexing and indexes; Indexing; Tagging

Methods, approaches & philosophies

• Boolean logic; Citation analysis; Consensus; Domain analysis; Facet analysis; Feminist epistemologies; Genealogical classification; Ideal language; Integrative levels; Kuhn's theory of classification; Logical division; Mathematical theory of classification; Numerical taxonomy; → Provenance; Reader interest classifications; User-based and cognitive approaches

KO in different contexts and applications

• Archival KO; Computer games; Flickr; ✎ Folk classification; → Ideal language; Journal classification; Maps, cartographic materials & geography information; Museum KO; OPACs and library discovery systems; Photograph organization; Research classification; Science mapping; ✎ Statistical classification; Web archive