Claudio Tommaso Gnoli (born 19 March 1969 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian information scientist, focused on knowledge organization (KO), in particular in such ontologicalMikiko Yokoyama, "Ontological conflict in library and information science: a comparison of Gnoli's ontological pluralism and Hjørland's ontological monism [in Japanese]". Library and Information Science 84 (2020): 1-21 views as emergentist evolutionism, the theory of levels of reality and General System Theory, as philosophical foundations for both existing and new KO systems. He is known particularly for testing the potential of a classification by phenomena (meant as the objects of knowledge) as opposed to disciplines.M. J. López-Huertas. 2008. "Some Current Research Questions in the Field of Knowledge Organization". Knowledge Organization 35, nos. 2-3, pp. 113-136: 126., of which the "most advanced—and most fully functional—example created to date is Gnoli's own Integrative Levels Classification (ILC)"Carlo Bianchini and Thomas M. Dousa. 2024. "Editorial Introduction: Ranganathan and his Legacy: Past, Present, Future". Annals of Library and Information Studies 71 (2024), n. 1: 3-8
He has been described as "a leading light in ISKO/Italy and other organizations" "Bliss at large". The Bliss Classification Bulletin 53 (2011): 14. In a 2016 bibliometric study, Araujo and Guimarães identified Gnoli as a central researcher, and showed his relations to other researchers within the field of knowledge organizationPaula Carina de Araujo and José Augusto Chaves Guimarães. 2016. "Epistemology of Knowledge Organization: A Study of Epistemic Communities". Advances in Knowledge Organization 15, 36-42. .
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