This research centre explores the classification, categorisation, description and organisation of knowledge and information. It considers the systems built to organise knowledge (KOSs) and the conceptual ideas and theoretical discourse around knowledge organisation. The centre includes DIS staff and PhD students working across a variety of information disciplines, including library and information studies, archives and records management, data science and digital humanities. While the centre is part of the Department of Information Studies, CeKOR positions knowledge organisation as truly interdisciplinary in its inquiries and its conceptual reach and has ambitions to connect with other disciplines at UCL. See the CeKOR webpages for more information about the centre’s people, remit, key publications and more.
We are really excited to have created this new research centre. CeKOR is designed to bring together scholarly research and thinking from across the department (and to UCL more widely), to provide a focal point for knowledge organisation research at UCL, and to promote the fantastic intellectual challenges and application complexities that knowledge organisation research evokes and resolves.
CeKOR have organised an inaugural research colloquium on Friday 12th June at the IoE, entitled “The interdisciplinarity of knowledge organisation: laying the foundations for a KO research network”. This event has been generously supported by the Dean’s Strategic Fund (A&H) and the UCL Department of Information Studies. Book your ticket