, dissemination and preservation of knowledge, and in a world that faces unprecedented environmental and global challenges for all … documenting and archiving the critical differences in semiosis that extend beyond purely human knowledge.  …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of Dark Knowledge, an epistemology that acknowledges both … alternative knowledge and ways of knowing which are cognizant of the moral and ethical positioning of each. Design …. Instead, the paper presents an embryonic model of Dark Knowledge and identifies a number of characteristics, which may be used …

concepts in the domain of knowledge organization. Because knowledge organization as a domain has as its focus the order of … understand their meaning. The frame was the entire population of formal proceedings in knowledge organization – all proceedings … of the International Society for Knowledge Organization's international conferences (1990‐2010) and those of the annual …

semiotics is a worthy candidate to add to the information sciences toolkit. Design/methodology/approach – Both traditional and … social semiotics are described in detail, with key texts cited. To demonstrate the benefits social semiotic methods may bring …. Social semiotics, moreover, is still evolving as a subject matter, so IS scholars could also potentially contribute to its …

important that such knowledge and debate are available within the LIS‐literature itself and that the answers to such questions …

non‐dualist, both purpose and communication oriented, epistemology; and a sociocultural perspective within pedagogy …