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Claudio Gnoli

@gnoli.eu

knowledge organization #KO; theory of classification; informational ontology; philosophy of science; folk traditions of NW Italy; local life; degrowth; non-violence; xenophilia To appear in 2026: Introduction to Knowledge Organization, 2nd ed.

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Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 5d ago

20 years ago scientists demoted Pluto, and astronomer Mike Brown (@plutokiller.com) was partially to blame. Today the decision still stings. But reinstating Pluto’s planethood, Brown explains, would require adding at least one other “planet,” too: Earth’s moon.

Mike Brown is very sorry, but Pluto still isn’t a planet

On the 20th anniversary of Pluto’s infamous demotion, Mike “Pluto Killer” Brown explains why any reversal of that decision would be driven more by nostalgia than science

scientificamerican.com

David Haynes@jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · last wk.

Coming to the end of the brilliant #ISKO2026 conference hosted by Brazilian colleagues in São Paulo. Thiago Barros (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul) hands over the presidency of ISKO to Lu An (Wuhan University). Next biennial conference ISKO 2028 will be in Coimbra, Portugal.

Bartłomiej Włodarczyk@bartekwlodarczyk.bsky.social · 2w ago

📚 Just published an open-access paper with Magdalena Zdunek in @catclassquarterly.bsky.social, exploring the use of LLMs as judges in human subject indexing. We show the potential of this approach, but also its weaknesses. doi.org/10.1080/0163... #AI #LLM #LLMsAsJudges #SubjectIndexing #KO

Large Language Models as Judges for Human Subject Indexing

The study evaluates LLMs as judges for human subject indexing by comparing their performance against a manually curated gold standard across descriptions of forty Polish library and information sci...

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Francesco Osborne@fosborne.bsky.social · last mo.

Can small open LLMs help build biomedical ontologies? We tested five models on MeSH relations. Targeted fine-tuning produced strong results, even for a 3B-parameter model. Paper, benchmark and code: arxiv.org/abs/2607.17902 #BiomedicalAI #Ontologies

Benchmarking Resource-Efficient LLMs for Research Topic Ontology Generation in the Biomedical Field

Knowledge Organization Systems like Ontologies and taxonomies are fundamental for structuring scientific knowledge, yet their manual curation presents a persistent bottleneck in knowledge management. ...

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Larry Swanson@larry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As the #Cyc project winds down, one of its main contributors, @benrode.bsky.social, is trying to migrate its #ontology to RDF, an ambitious project, much like Cyc. We tried to focus on the Cyc>RDF project, but there was just too much good #AIhistory to share. knowledgegraphinsights.com/ben-rode/

Ben Rode: porting the Cyc ontology to RDF

Benjamin Rode is an expert on AI history and the Cyc project and is currently porting its upper ontology to RDF.

knowledgegraphinsights.com

Facet Publishing @facetpublishing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In his new article for our blog, author Andrew K. Shenton discusses the challenges young people face when trying to understand library classifications, and explores some innovative methods to familiarise these classifications at a young age. Read here: https://ow.ly/TPWR50Zl0LI

Andrew Shenton Blog Start Them Young

Andrew Shenton discusses methods to teach young children how to use library services, and compares finding books in a library to other primary school activities.

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Claudio Gnoli@gnoli.eu · 2mo ago

Just published: Use of subject metadata in library discovery systems: A global survey, by @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social, me, Kora Golub, Athena Salaba and Aida Slavic. #KO www.imrpress.com/journal/KO/5...

Use of Subject Metadata in Library Discovery Systems: A Global Survey

This paper reports on a survey of research library catalogs and the ways these information retrieval systems support subject searching, the use of knowledge organization systems (KOSs), and the subjec...

imrpress.com

Federico Boem@federicoboem.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'I certainly cannot claim to be competent in all these disciplines. Although, I must say, I don’t like the term ‘disciplines’. The problem calls for something that goes beyond disciplines. There is no pre-established harmony between a problem and a discipline.' /end

Larry Swanson@larry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Giancarlo Guizzardi advances the fields of #semantics, #ontology, and #conceptualModeling with his work on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO), the OntoUML pattern language, and #explainableAI. Fun conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. knowledgegraphinsights.com/giancarlo-gu...

Giancarlo Guizzardi: ontology, semantics, and explainable AI

Giancarlo Guizzardi is an expert on ontology engineering, conceptual modeling, semantics, and explainable AI at the University of Twente.

knowledgegraphinsights.com

Claudio Gnoli@gnoli.eu · 4mo ago

An interesting Centre for Knowledge Organisation Research arises at @artshumsucl.bsky.social in London (indeed a historical place for #KO), and will host an in-person colloquium on June 12 with Rick Szostak and Vanda Broughton: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit.... I look forward to follow their activity!

CeKOR Colloquim

The first CeKOR event will be a colloquium on Friday 12th June, entitled “The interdisciplinarity of knowledge organisation: laying the foundations for a KO research network”.

ucl.ac.uk