KOS registry entries often cover multidimensional topics that resist representation by a single classmark, making multi-notation assignment a common but sema...

On the 20th anniversary of Pluto’s infamous demotion, Mike “Pluto Killer” Brown explains why any reversal of that decision would be driven more by nostalgia than science

The study evaluates LLMs as judges for human subject indexing by comparing their performance against a manually curated gold standard across descriptions of forty Polish library and information sci...

Knowledge Organization Systems like Ontologies and taxonomies are fundamental for structuring scientific knowledge, yet their manual curation presents a persistent bottleneck in knowledge management. ...

Benjamin Rode is an expert on AI history and the Cyc project and is currently porting its upper ontology to RDF.

Andrew Shenton discusses methods to teach young children how to use library services, and compares finding books in a library to other primary school activities.

This paper reports on a survey of research library catalogs and the ways these information retrieval systems support subject searching, the use of knowledge organization systems (KOSs), and the subjec...

Giancarlo Guizzardi is an expert on ontology engineering, conceptual modeling, semantics, and explainable AI at the University of Twente.

The first CeKOR event will be a colloquium on Friday 12th June, entitled “The interdisciplinarity of knowledge organisation: laying the foundations for a KO research network”.

Personification of Governance overseeing our discussions On 21st April 2026 at Cardiff University, the second World Café event on subject analysis took place. The event was organised by the CILIP M…

Chi volesse avvicinarsi in punta di piedi allo studio della struttura fondamentale del mondo, consiglio le pagine di Ontologia informazionale di Claudio Gnoli (lo si trova a questo link): un .pdf b…

This monthly annotated bibliography presents a selective overview of recent scholarly publications on the relationships between artificial intelligence (AI), metadata, and knowledge organization (KO) for March 2026. It is based on literature searches conducted in databases, repositories, and academic search engines, including Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex, arXiv, and Google Scholar, as well as selected library and information science journals and other relevant sources. Each entry includes a brief comment written by the author, and the bibliography concludes with a short reflective summary of the publications covered.

A lively discussion developed in library and information science (LIS) from an article by Claudio Gnoli, Richard Smiraglia and Rick Szostak, already summarized in Information Matters.

YouTube video by Carlos Gershenson

Ontologia informazionale: Una visione del mondo come livelli di sistemi modulari : Gnoli, Claudio: Amazon.it: Libri

I chatbot di intelligenza artificiale stanno moltiplicando gli studi e infestandoli di “sbobba”

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