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Concluding Remarks and the Next Steps

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We open this chapter by summarizing the conclusions reached in the preceding nine chapters. We then discuss avenues for further research, and also for public policy. We close with some reflections on the place of knowledge organization in the world.

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  1. 1.

    Holland (2008) argues that information science draws on many fields, but often in a multidisciplinary fashion, when in many cases an interdisciplinary approach would be preferable. See also Bawden (2008).

  2. 2.

    Beghtol (1994, 9–10) follows Foskett (1962) in urging the development of classifications that could serve as the ‘experimental data’ with which to test theoretical propositions in knowledge organization.

  3. 3.

    Interestingly, architects of many large corporate websites are applying principles of facet analysis—an indication that a common classification for libraries and other websites is indeed feasible.

  4. 4.

    Some of the ideas here are explored in Szostak (2014b).

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  1. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Rick Szostak

  2. Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Claudio Gnoli

  3. University of Granada, Granada, Granada, Spain

    María López-Huertas

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Szostak, R., Gnoli, C., López-Huertas, M. (2016). Concluding Remarks and the Next Steps. In: Interdisciplinary Knowledge Organization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30148-8_10

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