Knowledge Organization and the Conceptual Basis for Building Classification Systems for Complex Documents: An Application on the Brazilian Popular Song Domain

Knowledge Organization (KO) is one of the main activities of the Information Science field. The theoretical and epistemological inputs from Information Science have proved themselves crucial for the construction of new classification systems the applied dimension of KO - which take into account the multidisciplinarity inherent to complex documents and which are capable of expressing their multidimensional nature. This article discusses the theoretical grounding for the classification of popular songs and also presents the construction of an ontology-based system for this kind of complex document.