Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of warrant in daily classification design in general and in negotiating disparate classification goals in particular. Design/methodology/approach This paper synthesizes classification research on forms of warrant and uses examples of...

Purpose – This paper aims to report on an empirical case study, (single case multi‐site) employing both a “hard” and “soft” method. The tangible, visible component of the study was the production of a database whose fields were to be the source of tacit knowledge emergence....

Purpose – To propose a comprehensive and semi‐automatic method for constructing or updating knowledge organization tools such as thesauri. Design/methodology/approach – The paper proposes a comprehensive methodology for thesaurus construction and maintenance combining shallow NLP with a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore query expansion via conceptual distance in thesaurus indexed collections Design/methodology/approach – An extract of the National Museum of Science and Industry's collections database, indexed with the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus...

The paper introduces bibliometrics to the research area of knowledge organization – more precisely in relation to construction and maintenance of thesauri. As such, the paper reviews related work that has been of inspiration for the assembly of a semi‐automatic, bibliometric‐based,...