Domain Analysis for Knowledge Organization

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Conclusions

Abstract

A revised taxonomy of domain-analytical approaches emerges from this study. There seems little sense to the mix of domains that have been studied; the majority have been studied only once. Where three or four studies in a domain have occurred, it would be useful for new studies to begin with meta-analyses of the prior studies so as to generate cumulative knowledge and understanding of these domains. Few of the formal sciences have been studied—astronomy and physics are notable. Scholarship of all kinds is replete with quantification of domains and the evolution of their knowledge bases. The knowledge organization community would do well to begin to seek to extrapolate domain data from the communities in which it is ...