Knowledge Organization across Disciplines, Domains, Services and Technologies

This book explores the latest advances in how knowledge organisation can both draw upon and inform diverse disciplines and technological developments. It explores how best to combine theory and practice, with its contents considering practical solutions as well as the theory behind the design, development and implementation of knowledge organising systems, ranging from controlled vocabularies, classification systems and metadata schemas to ontologies and taxonomies. With contributions byCarmen Agustin-Lacruz, Mayukh Bagchi, Mario Barite, Maria Teresa Biagetti, Briony Birdi, Lynne Bowker, Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros, Ana Ines Brozia, Gema Bueno-de-la-Fuente, Julia Bullard, Rafael Cacciolari Dalessandro, Jose Augusto Chaves Guimaraes, Christian Cole, Stephanie Colombo, Luciana Corts Mendes, Luis Corujo, Niamh Nic Daeid, Patricia de Almeida, Hadassa De Zen Itepan, Anthony Dunbar, Jonathan Furner, Francisco-Javier Garcia-Marco, Fausto Giunchiglia, Claudio Gnoli, Miriam Gontijo de Moraes, Hazlem Granados-Amaya, Hugo Alberto Guadarrama-Sanchez, Carlos Guardado da Silva, David Haynes, Ania Hernandez Quintana, Philip Hider, Chris Holstrom, Eva Hourihan Jansen, Fidelia Ibekwe, Mat Kelly, Michael Kleineberg, Nair Yumiko Kobashi, Deborah Lee, Mael Le Gall, Joaquin Lopez del Ramo, Luis Miguel Oliveira Machado, Hugo Moquet, Catalina Naumis-Pena, Mirtha Rauch, Mariana Ramos Crivelente, Raissa Resende de Moraes, Jorge Revez, Riccardo Ridi, Somayeh Roshan, Clarissa Schmidt, Negin Shokrzadeh Hashtroudi, Richard P. Smiraglia, Maringela Spotti Lopes Fujita, Adriana Suarez-Sanchez, Erik Stubkjw r, Rick Szostak, Seyed Mahdi Taheri, Marc Tanti, Ana Lucia Terra, Amanda Terrero Trinquete, Natalia Bolfarini Tognoli, Jessica Beatriz Tolare, Raquel Torrao Valentim, Hyung Wook Choi and Mohsen Haji Zeinolabedini.