Purpose – Classification is an important process in making sense of the world, and has a pronounced social dimension …. This paper aims to compare folksonomy, a new social classification system currently being developed on the web, with … of classification system raises the questions: Will and should taxonomies be hybridized with folksonomies? What can each …

Purpose – To suggest that a theory of classification for information retrieval (IR), asked for by Spärck Jones in a … “classical” versus Kuhnian understandings of concepts. Findings – Classification, both manual and automatic, for retrieval …/value – Provides, emphasizing a pragmatic understanding, insights of importance to classification for retrieval, both manual and …