Birger Hjørland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Birger Hjørland

Danish academic

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1947

Place of Birth: Nærum, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Profession: scientist, researcher

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Birger Hjørland (born January 1, 1947 in Denmark) is a professor of knowledge organization at the Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS) in Copenhagen.
His main areas of study pertain to theory of library and information science and of knowledge organization.
Hjørland has contributed important developments to 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 RSLIS 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.
He is a member of the editorial board of various journals and the editor-in-chief of the ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization.