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Knowledge Organisation Systems

Selected KOS General Resources

Aitchinson, J.; Gilchrist, A.; Bawden, D. 2000. Thesaurus construction and use: a practical manual. 4th ed. London: Aslib.

Beghtol, C. 2010. Classification Theory. In: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd ed., 1045-1060.

Bowker, G.C., Star, S. L. 2000. Sorting Things Out: classification and its Consequences. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

de Bruijn, J. & Fensel, D. 2010. Ontologies and Their Definition. In: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd ed., 3997-4007.

Chan, Lois May. 2007. Cataloguing and classification: an introduction. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Dextre Clarke, Stella G. Knowledge Organization System Standards. In: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 3rd edition. 1: 1, 3164 — 3175. Edited by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack. New York, NY: Dekker Encyclopedias, Taylor and Francis Group.

Foskett, A.C. 1997. The subject approach to information. 5th ed. London: Library Association Publishing.

Furner, Jonathan. 2010. Folksonomies. In: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 3rd edition. 1: 1, 1858 — 1866. Edited by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack. New York, NY: Dekker Encyclopedias, Taylor and Francis Group.

Hjørland, Birger. 2007. Semantics and knowledge organization. ARIST, Vol. 41. P. 367-405.

Lykke, Marianne. 2010. Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems/Services (NKOS). In: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 3rd edition. 1: 1, 3911 — 3915. Edited by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack. New York, NY: Dekker Encyclopedias, Taylor and Francis Group.

Olson, Hope A. 2002. The power to name: locating the limits of subject representation in libraries. Dordrecht: Kluwer. New edition by Springer announced for release in July 2011

Olson, Hope A., & Boll, John J. 2000. Subject analysis in online catalogs. 2nd ed. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Rowley, Jennifer, & Hartley, Richard. 2008. Organizing knowledge: an introduction to managing access to information. 4th ed. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Schwartz, Candy. 2001. Sorting out the Web: Approaches to subject access. Westport, CT: Ablex.

Soergel, Dagobert. 1985. Organizing Information. Orlando, Fl: Academic Press.

Svenonius, Elaine. 2000. The intellectual foundations of information organization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Zeng, Marcia Lei. 2008. Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS). Knowledge Organization, Vol. 35, No. 2/3. P. 160-182.

Zeng, Marcia Lei, & Chan, Lois Mai. 2010. Semantic Interoperability. In: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 3rd edition. 1: 1, 4645 — 4662. Edited by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack. New York, NY: Dekker Encyclopedias, Taylor and Francis Group.