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Semantics and Knowledge Organization. Presentation given in Riga, October 2006

Hjørland, Birger (2006) Semantics and Knowledge Organization. Presentation given in Riga, October 2006.

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Outlines a view of semantics and its implications for Knowledge Organization. All knowledge organizing systems (KOS) consist of concepts, their definitions, selection, semantic relations/meaning relations and other kinds of information, why KOS should be understood as semantic tools. By implication knowledge organization as a field of study is dependent of a proper theoretical understanding of semantics. Such a theoretical understanding of semantics is outlined in this presentation. Contents of this presentation: 1. Semantics exemplified by thesauri 2. Semantics and other kinds of knowledge organizing systems/ 3. Semantic tools 4. Theories of semantics 4b. Kinds of semantic relations 5. Implications for Library and Information Science (LIS)

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