{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,30]],"date-time":"2026-04-30T18:22:28Z","timestamp":1777573348879,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":27,"publisher":"SAGE Publications","issue":"2","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["EFI"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,15]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>Humanities scholars can today engage in research inquiry using data from a range of varied collections which are often characterised by poor subject access, often resulting in systems that underperform and even effectively prevent access to data, information and knowledge. In spite of the availability of professional standards and guidelines to provide quality-controlled subject access through knowledge organisation systems (KOS), subject access in such collections is rarely based on KOS. At the same time, KOS themselves may come with problems such as being slow to update, being rigidly structured and not incorporating end-users\u2019 vocabulary. It may therefore be useful to consider methods for remediating these deficiencies in KOSs, such as collecting user-generated metadata via social tagging or complementing automated indexing techniques with manual ones. To help address the above problems, the paper discusses these challenges and points to possible solutions in different contexts. It does so by reflecting on an open educational resource (OER) devoted to this theme, titled Introduction to Knowledge Organisation Systems for Digital Humanities. It was developed as part of an EU project called DiMPAH (Digital Methods Platform for the Arts and Humanities), 2021\u20132023, creating seven OERs for inclusion in DARIAH Teach.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/efi-230037","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,21]],"date-time":"2023-04-21T12:44:00Z","timestamp":1682081040000},"page":"203-216","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Subject-based knowledge organisation: An OER for supporting (digital) humanities research"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"39","author":[{"given":"Koraljka","family":"Golub","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"iInstitute, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University, V\u00e4xj\u00f6, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Olivia","family":"Pestana","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication and Information Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","reference":[{"issue":"3-4","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"143","DOI":"10.1300\/J104v38n03_13","article-title":"Fear of authority? Authority control and thesaurus building for art and material culture information.","volume":"38","author":"Baca","year":"2004","journal-title":"Cataloging and Classification Quarterly"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"249","DOI":"10.1080\/19386380802398503","article-title":"Where keywords fail: Using metadata to facilitate digital humanities scholarship.","volume":"8","author":"Bair","year":"2008","journal-title":"Journal of Library Metadata"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.9776\/17002"},{"issue":"7","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"464","DOI":"10.1108\/JD-06-2022-0138","article-title":"Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: challenges and solutions","volume":"78","author":"Golub","year":"2022","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"801","DOI":"10.1108\/JD-05-2013-0056","article-title":"Enhancing social tagging with automated keywords from the Dewey Decimal Classification","volume":"70","author":"Golub","year":"2014","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"issue":"6","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1193","DOI":"10.1108\/JD-12-2019-0231","article-title":"Subject indexing in humanities: A comparison between a local university repository and an international bibliographic service","volume":"76","author":"Golub","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"issue":"7","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"211","DOI":"10.1108\/jd-05-2021-0094","article-title":"Organizing subject access to cultural heritage in Swedish online museums","volume":"78","author":"Golub","year":"2022","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"801","DOI":"10.1108\/JD-05-2013-0056","article-title":"Enhancing Social Tagging with Automated Keywords from the Dewey Decimal Classification","volume":"70","author":"Golub","year":"2014","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"204","DOI":"10.1080\/10572317.2016.1205406","article-title":"Potential and Challenges of Subject Access in Libraries Today on the Example of Swedish Libraries","volume":"48","author":"Golub","year":"2016","journal-title":"International Information & Library Review"},{"issue":"2","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"135","DOI":"10.3233\/EFI-180165","article-title":"The terminological and disciplinary origins of information and knowledge organization","volume":"34","author":"Hider","year":"2018","journal-title":"Education for Information"},{"issue":"8","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"857","DOI":"10.1080\/01639374.2013.825827","article-title":"The use of RDA elements in support of FRBR user tasks","volume":"51","author":"Hider","year":"2013","journal-title":"Cataloging and Classification Quarterly"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref16","first-page":"395","article-title":"Successes and failures of patrons searching the online catalog at a large academic library: A transaction log analysis","volume":"30","author":"Hunter","year":"1991","journal-title":"RQ"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref18","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"245","DOI":"10.5771\/0943-7444-2019-4-245","article-title":"LibraryThing for Libraries? How Tag Moderation and Size Limitations Affect Tag Clouds","volume":"46","author":"Johansson","year":"2019","journal-title":"Knowledge Organization"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref19","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"276","DOI":"10.5771\/0943-7444-2015-5-276","article-title":"Tagging of banned and challenged books","volume":"42","author":"Kipp","year":"2015","journal-title":"Knowledge Organization"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref20","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"239","DOI":"10.5771\/0943-7444-2010-4-239","article-title":"Searching with tags: Do tags help users find things","volume":"37","author":"Kipp","year":"2010","journal-title":"Knowledge Organization"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref21","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"406","DOI":"10.1086\/603001","article-title":"A natural language thesaurus for the humanities: The need for a database search aid","volume":"68","author":"Knapp","year":"1998","journal-title":"Library Quarterly"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref23","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"4","DOI":"10.1108\/00330330510578778","article-title":"Online cultural heritage exhibitions: A survey of information retrieval features","volume":"39","author":"Liew","year":"2004","journal-title":"Program Electronic Library and Information Systems"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref24","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1045\/january2007-markey"},{"issue":"2-4","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref25","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"163","DOI":"10.1080\/10691316.2012.693434","article-title":"Search query quality and web-scale discovery: A qualitative and quantitative analysis","volume":"19","author":"Meadow","year":"2012","journal-title":"College and Undergraduate Libraries"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.acalib.2022.102520"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref29","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18357\/kula.205"},{"issue":"6","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref31","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"500","DOI":"10.5771\/0943-7444-2018-6-500","article-title":"Tagging","volume":"45","author":"Rafferty","year":"2018","journal-title":"Knowledge Organization"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref32","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"174","DOI":"10.5860\/lrts.53n3.174","article-title":"User tags versus subject headings: Can user-supplied data improve subject access to library collections","volume":"53","author":"Rolla","year":"2009","journal-title":"Library Resources & Technical Services"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref34","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"273","DOI":"10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4571(199306)44:5<273::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-X","article-title":"A profile of end-user searching behavior by humanities scholars: The Getty online project report no. 2","volume":"44","author":"Siegfried","year":"1993","journal-title":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science"},{"issue":"8","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref35","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"600","DOI":"10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4571(199409)45:8<600::AID-ASI15>3.0.CO;2-6","article-title":"Access to nonbook materials: The limits of subject indexing for visual and aural languages","volume":"45","author":"Svenonius","year":"1994","journal-title":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science"},{"issue":"8","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref37","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"607","DOI":"10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4571(199409)45:8<607::AID-ASI16>3.0.CO;2-X","article-title":"Indexing for the humanities","volume":"45","author":"Tibbo","year":"1994","journal-title":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230037_ref38","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"327","DOI":"10.1016\/j.acalib.2007.01.018","article-title":"The use of OPAC in a large academic library: A transactional log analysis study of subject searching","volume":"33","author":"Vill\u00e9n-Rueda","year":"2007","journal-title":"The Journal of Academic Librarianship"}],"container-title":["Education for Information"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/content.iospress.com\/download?id=10.3233\/EFI-230037","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,28]],"date-time":"2026-04-28T19:19:21Z","timestamp":1777403961000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.3233\/EFI-230037"}},"subtitle":[],"editor":[{"given":"Koraljka","family":"Golub","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"editor","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Giovanni","family":"Colavizza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"editor","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ahmad M.","family":"Kamal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"editor","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tobias","family":"Blanke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"editor","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,15]]},"references-count":27,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2"},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3233\/efi-230037","relation":{},"ISSN":["0167-8329","1875-8649"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0167-8329","type":"print"},{"value":"1875-8649","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,15]]}}}