Temporal Concept Drift and Alignment: An Empirical Approach to Comparing Knowledge Organization Systems Over Time

• Published in: Knowledge organization Vol. 49; no. 2; p. 69
• Main Authors: Grabus, Sam, Peter Melville Logan and, Greenberg, Jane
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wuerzburg Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co KG 01.01.2022
• Subjects: Knowledge organization; Library of Congress Subject Headings; Subject heading schemes

This research explores temporal concept drift and temporal alignment in knowledge organization systems (KOS). A comparative analysis is pursued using the 1910 Library of Congress Subject Headings, 2020 FAST Topical, and automatic indexing. The use case involves a sample of 90 nineteenth-century Ency...