Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of classification structures to efforts at holding …/methodology/approach – The primary methodology of this paper is a textual analysis of the Documentation Center of Cambodia's classification … Center of Cambodia's classification of Khmer Rouge records by ethnic identity has had a major impact on charging former …

One major aspect of T.D. Wilson’s research has been his insistence on situating the investigation of information … classification scheme is described as exemplifying both stigmergic structures and cognitive scaffoldings. Two different but …‐as‐infrastructure. Classification‐as‐scaffolding views the classification scheme as a knowledge storage device supporting and promoting cognitive …

appeared to be a promising tool for categorisation that can facilitate browsing of information resources in an electronic …

Purpose – To suggest that a theory of classification for information retrieval (IR), asked for by Spärck Jones in a … celebration, “60 years of the best in information research”. Design/methodology/approach – Literature‐based conceptual analysis … “classical” versus Kuhnian understandings of concepts. Findings – Classification, both manual and automatic, for retrieval …

Purpose – This paper forms part of the series “60 years of the best in information research”, marking the 60th … still. Originality/value – The paper shows the continuing relevance of “traditional” ideas of information science from the …

classification in different research communities (machine learning, information retrieval and library science), and point to problems … with the approaches and automated classification as such. Design/methodology/approach – A range of works dealing with … automated classification of full‐text web documents are discussed. Explorations of individual approaches are given in the …

, classification, and indexing to solve problems of information retrieval and design usable information products and services for human … employee (1889‐1930) in an attempt to glean lessons for modern information studies from an early librarian's career. Design … example of the archetypal information scientist who improvises and integrates methods from bibliography, cataloging …