Science and Knowledge Organization An Editorial

Vanda Broughton is Emeritus Professor of Library & Information Studies at University College London, and the author of a number of books and articles on faceted classification and controlled vocabularies. She has worked on faceted classification systems since 1972 and from that time she was a member of the UK Classification Research Group. She had Joint Editorship of BC2 with Jack Mills, until his death in 2010, when she became sole Editor, and Chair of the Bliss Classification Association. She has also been an Associate Editor of the Universal Decimal Classification, sometime member of the IFLA Committee on Classification & Indexing and was a founder member of the UK Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, which she chaired from 2007-2011. She has been Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge Organization since 2021, and is a supplementary editor of the ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization.