KnowledgeOrganization Systems (KOS), in the formof classification systems, thesauri, lexical databases, ontologies, gazetteers, and taxonomies,more than ever play a crucial role in digital information management and applications generally. Carrying semantics in awell-controlled and documented way, Knowledge Organization Systems serve a variety of important functions such as: tools for representation and indexing of information and documents, knowledge-based support to information searchers, semantic road maps to domains and disciplines, communication tools that provide a conceptual framework, and a conceptual underpinning for knowledge-based systems. The European NKOS network has held a long-running series of annual workshops at the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), earlier known as the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL). For details of North American and other NKOS network events, see http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/. Special issues on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) have been published in Journal of Digital Information in 2001 (https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/ jodi/issue/view/8) [1] and 2004 (https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/ index.php/jodi/issue/view/20) [2], theNewReviewofHypermedia and Multimedia in 2006 (http://www.tandfonline.

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知识组织系统的最新应用：特刊简介

知识组织系统（KOS）以分类系统，叙词表，词法数据库，本体论，地名词典和分类法的形式在数字信息管理和应用程序中比以往任何时候都起着至关重要的作用。知识组织系统以良好控制和有据可查的方式承载语义，服务于多种重要功能，例如：信息和文档的表示和索引工具，对信息搜索者的基于知识的支持，领域和学科的语义路线图，通信工具为基于知识的系统提供概念框架和概念基础。欧洲NKOS网络在国际数字图书馆理论和实践会议（TPDL）上举办了一系列长期的年度研讨会，以前称为欧洲数字图书馆会议（ECDL）。有关北美和其他NKOS网络事件的详细信息，请参见http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/。关于网络知识组织系统（NKOS）的特殊问题已于2001年在数字信息杂志（https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/issue/view/8）[1]和2004年出版。 （https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/ index.php / jodi / issue / view / 20）[2]，2006年超媒体和多媒体新评论（http：//www.tandfonline。