"A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

Selected KOS Further Resources

On KOS standards, guidelines and protocols

Clarke, S. 2010. Knowledge Organization System Standards. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition 3164-3175.

Dextre Clarke, S. 2007. Evolution towards ISO 25964: An international standard with guidelines for thesauri and other types of controlled vocabulary. Inform. Wissensch. Prax 58(8), 441-444.

KOS Standards for Electronic format and Information Interchange

World Wide Web Consortium. 2010. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System.

World Wide Web Consortium. 2009. OWL Web ontology language.

Janee, G.; Ikeda, S.; Hill, L.L. 2009. The ADL thesaurus protocol. Ver. 1.0.

Library of Congress. 2007. SRU: Search/Retrieval via URL. Library of Congress: Washington, DC.

National Information Standards Organization. 2003. Information retrieval: Application service definition & protocol specification. ANSI/NISO Z39.50-20036. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. See also http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/

International Organization for Standardization. 1996. Information and documentation. Format for information interchange. ISO 2709:1996. Geneva: International Organization for Standardization.

KOS Standards, Guidelines and Protocols for Content

British Standards Institution. 2005, 2007, 2008. Structured vocabularies for information retrieval. BS 8723-1(2005), BS 8723-1(2005), BS 8723-2(2005), BS 8723-3(2007), BS 8723-4(2007), BS 8723-5(2008). British Standards Institution, London.

National Information Standards Organization. 2005. Guidelines for the construction, format, and management of monolingual controlled vocabulares. ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press.

Working Group on Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri, IFLA Classificaton and Indexing Section. 2005. Guidelines for multilingual thesauri.

National Information Standards Organization. 1997. Guidelines for abstracts. ANSI/NISO Z39.14-1997. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press.

International Organization for Standardization. 1996. Information and documentation -- Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes. ISO 999:1996. Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization.

International Organization for Standardisation. 1986. Documentation -- Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri. ISO 2788-1986(E). Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization.

International Organization for Standardisation. 1985. Documentation -- Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri. ISO 5964-1985(E). Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization.

International Organization for Standardisation. 1985. Documentation -- Methods for examining documents, determining their subjects, and selecting index terms. ISO 5963-1985(E).

KOS Associations, Groups, Societies

1. ISKO http://www.isko.org/, ISKO UK http://www.iskouk.org/

For an overview, see Dahlberg, I. 2010. International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition 2941-2949.

2. Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/

For an overview, see Lykke, M. 2010. Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition 3911-3915.

3. Special Interest Group on Classification Research of the American Society for Information Science and Technology: ASIST SIG(CR) http://www.asis.org/SIG/cr.html

For an overview of ASIST with reference to special interest groups such as SIG(CR), see Davis, C. H. & Shaw, D. 2010. American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition 93-98.