KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

Scope：Knowledge Organization publishes original research articles that: (1) clarify theoretical foundations (general ordering theory, philosophical foundations of knowledge and its artifacts, theoretical bases of classification, data analysis and reduction); (2) describe practical operations associated with indexing and classification, as well as applications of classification systems and thesauri, manual and machine indexing; (3) trace the history of knowledge organization; (4) discuss questions of education and training in classification; and (5) problems of terminology in general and with respect to special fields.

范围：(1)阐明理论基础(一般排序理论、知识及其工件的哲学基础、分类、数据分析和约简的理论基础);(2)描述与标引和分类相关的实际操作，以及分类系统和叙词表、手工标引和机器标引的应用;(3)追溯知识组织的历史;(4)探讨分类教育培训问题;(五)术语的一般问题和特殊领域的问题。