Knowledge Organization (journal)
Encyclopedia
Knowledge Organization is a quarterly peer-reviewed
academic journal
covering concept theory, classification
, indexing
, and knowledge representation
. It is the official journal of the International Society for Knowledge Organization
. It was established in 1973 as International Classification and obtained its current title in 1993.
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
covering concept theory, classification
Library classification
A library classification is a system of coding and organizing documents or library materials according to their subject and allocating a call number to that information resource...
, indexing
Bibliographic index
A bibliographic index is a bibliography, an aid to search the literature of, for example, an academic field or discipline , to works of a specific literary form or published in a specific format , or to the analyzed contents of a serial publication...
, and knowledge representation
Knowledge representation
Knowledge representation is an area of artificial intelligence research aimed at representing knowledge in symbols to facilitate inferencing from those knowledge elements, creating new elements of knowledge...
. It is the official journal of the International Society for Knowledge Organization
International Society for Knowledge Organization
The International Society for Knowledge Organization is the principal professional association for scholars of knowledge organization, knowledge structures, classification studies, and information organization and structure...
. It was established in 1973 as International Classification and obtained its current title in 1993.