Birger Hjørland

Who is Birger Hjørland?

Birger Hjørland is a professor of Knowledge Organization at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen. His main areas of study pertain to Knowledge Organization, document typology, and Domain Analysis. Hjørland has created two important Knowledge Organization theories: Domain Analysis and Concept Theory. He has been cited as an anchor of North American Knowledge Organization studies, as well as an information science pioneer.

Birger Hjørland started working at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in 1976, then became a research librarian at The Royal Library in Copenhagen from 1978 to 1990. From 1990 he returned to RSLIS and became professor in 2001. He has done research and taught at RSLIS ever since. Many of his students have become research librarians or information specialists.