Knowledge organization of fiction and narrative documents: a challenge in the age of the multimedia revolution

Abstract

Knowledge organization (KO) research has been traditionally more oriented toward scientific documents. However, narrative, one of the oldest kinds of literature genre, is increasingly important in the multimedia culture of today, and is getting more important in applied social sciences as business administration, advertising, public relations, politics or education. This paper explores the key facets for KO in the field building on literature theory and faceted classification theory.