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Recent developments in ontology research in the fields of Library and Information Science (LIS), Computer Sciences, and other related disciplines are examined through a bibliometric survey. Results confirm that the current research surge must be contextualized in terms of Internet [...]

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The organization knowledge concept is defined as the domain where scientific research interacts with its application to systems development. Disciplines that embraces, as information science; and its products, such as classification systems, are cited. Some recent trends and current [...]

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The organization knowledge concept is defined as the domain where scientific research interacts with its application to systems development. Disciplines that embraces, as information science; and its products, such as classification systems, are cited. Some recent trends and current [...]

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The emerging convergence in the field of ontologies between knowledge organization and knowledge engineering is examined in the context of the semantic web project. We describe the development of research on ontologies in library and information sciences and in other disciplines interested [...]

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This paper first reviews the advantages and disadvantages associated with both pre-coordination and post-coordination in classification. It then argues that we can have the advantages of both if we couple a post-coordinated (synthetic) approach to classification with a user interface [...]