Purpose – This research project aims to provide a new visual representation of the Artefacts Canada digital collection, as well as a means for users to browse this content. Artefacts Canada Humanities is a database containing approximately 3.5 million records describing the different...

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the selected Proceedings of the 1st National Conference of ISKO UK, the UK Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization. It aims to provide some background for the group, and place it within the context of the recent...

Purpose – The aim of this article is to estimate the impact of faceted classification and the faceted analytical method on the development of various information retrieval tools over the latter part of the twentieth and early twenty‐first centuries. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explicate the notion of “semantics”, especially as it is being used in the context of the internet in general and advertising in particular. Design/methodology/approach – The conception of semantics as it evolved within linguistics is placed in its...

Purpose – This work aims to draw attention to information retrieval philosophies and techniques allied to the records management profession, advocating a wider professional consideration of a functional approach to information management, in this instance in the development of information...

Purpose – This paper aims to review key content, architecture, and metadata model decisions and strategies in creation of a publication portal (on DVD to start), based on a 30+ year series of flagship reports from the World Bank. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes and analyzes...

Purpose – This paper seeks to develop a specified typology of various levels of semantic interoperability, designed to provide semantically expressive and functional means to interconnect typologically different sub‐systems in an international comprehensive knowledge organization system,...

Purpose – The paper aims to develop a prototype middleware framework between different terminology resources in order to provide a subject cross‐browsing service for library portal systems. Design/methodology/approach – Nine terminology experts were interviewed to collect appropriate...

Purpose – Content‐based image retrieval (CBIR) technologies offer many advantages over purely text‐based image search. However, one of the drawbacks associated with CBIR is the increased computational cost arising from tasks such as image processing, feature extraction, image...

Purpose – Traditional subject indexing and classification are considered infeasible in many digital collections. This paper seeks to investigate ways of enhancing social tagging via knowledge organization systems, with a view to improving the quality of tags for increased information discovery...