Abstract
The book presents a list of significant issues that are being solved currently by the newly forming discipline of knowledge organization. The discipline examines the activities aimed towards implementing the structure to recorded knowledge in order to facilitate the access to it and allow the use thereof.
The methodology applied in this book consists of systems approach, conceptual analysis and modeling. The presented findings are based on extensive literature research.
Special attention was given to the "content" organization based on the semantics of organized units. The book is divided into five chapters.
In the first chapter, there is a definition of knowledge organization and its conceptual and terminological base, and a description of paradigm shift caused by changes in the social context and communication technologies. The second chapter applies a systems approach on the field of knowledge organization.
It defines its objectives, elements, processes and context. The third chapter discusses theoretical, empirical and technological principles of knowledge organization.
The fourth chapter describes the role of relationships in knowledge organization. In the fifth chapter, we present the semantic problems of knowledge organization.
The issues of defining the content of resources (aboutness) are being addressed, followed with a proposal of our own model of aboutness.