KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION
International Society for Knowledge Organization · KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION · 2017
In this paper, 215 articles published in the journal of Knowledge Organization between 1993 and 2008 were analyzed. ”Classification System for Knowledge Organization Literature” was used to classify the contents and themes of the above journal articles. The most investigated five themes are theoretical foundations and general problems, classification system and thesauri structure and construction, knowledge representation by language and terminology, on universal classification system and thesauri, and classification and indexing methodology. Among the above themes, two have already been thoroughly researched, which are universal classification and thesauri as well as vocabulary mapping and interoperability. Certain themes, continuously being researched, are theoretical foundations, classification system and thesauri structure and construction, knowledge representation by language and terminology, etc. Two themes, applied classing and indexing and knowledge organization environment, are still at the infancy stage and require further investigations.