TY  - JOUR
AB  - What kind of knowledge is needed by information specialists working in a specific subject field like medicine, sociology or music? What approaches have been used in information science to produce kinds of domain‐specific knowledge? This article presents 11 approaches to domain analysis. Together these approaches make a unique competence for information specialists. The approaches are: producing literature guides and subject gateways; producing special classifications and thesauri; research on indexing and retrieving specialities; empirical user studies; bibliometrical studies; historical studies; document and genre studies; epistemological and critical studies; terminological studies, LSP (languages for special purposes), discourse studies; studies of structures and institutions in scientific communication; and domain analysis in professional cognition and artificial intelligence. Specific examples and selective reviews of literature are provided, and the strengths and drawbacks of each of these approaches are discussed.
VL  - 58
IS  - 4
SN  - 0022-0418
DO  - 10.1108/00220410210431136
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410210431136
AU  - Hjørland Birger
PY  - 2002
Y1  - 2002/01/01
TI  - Domain analysis in information science: Eleven approaches – traditional as well as innovative
T2  - Journal of Documentation
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 422
EP  - 462
Y2  - 2024/04/18
ER  -