Purpose – This paper forms part of the series “60 years of the best in information research”, marking the 60th anniversary of the Journal of Documentation . It aims to review the influence of Brian Vickery's 1971 paper, “Structure and function in retrieval languages”. The paper is not...

Presents a report of a survey, based on case studies, of current practice in the building and use of taxonomies, with particular emphasis on corporate taxonomies to support enterprise information portals. Of the 22 case studies, six were designated as “core” and four are discussed in this...