Purpose The purpose is to offer a discussion of how we can conceive of the organization of knowledge in digital culture and its changing nature. The article proposes to view of it as both a decentered (communicative) and centered (analytical gaze). Design/methodology/approach This study involves...

Purpose – To suggest that a theory of classification for information retrieval (IR), asked for by Spärck Jones in a 1970 paper, presupposes a full implementation of a pragmatic understanding. Part of the Journal of Documentation celebration, “60 years of the best in information research”....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an answer to a critique put forward by Szostak against a paper written by the present author. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a literature‐based conceptual analysis based on Hjørland and Nissen Pedersen and Szostak. The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges facing bibliographic classification at both the practical and theoretical levels. At the practical level, libraries are increasingly dispensing with classifying books. At the theoretical level, many researchers, managers, and users...