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  • Ethics can be considered a reflection about the principles and laws which lead the human conduct and has its centre point in the values which are principles of morality devoted to specific conducts. Considering that such a few studies on information ethics are devoted to knowledge organization and representation (KOR) it intends. To identify, conceptualize and classify the ethical values that can be considered in KOR activities. For that, the theoretical approaches of Hudon, 1997, García Gutiérrez, 1998, 2002, Beghtol, 2002, 2005, Van der Walt, 2004, Thellefsen; Thellefsen, 2004 and Bair, 2005 were analyzed in order to obtain a systematization of ethical values and problems in KOR. The results showed that the predominant ethical values are: cultural hospitality, cultural warrant, fidelity of information representation / labeling, record updating and cooperation, multilinguism (as a reflex of multiculturalim), social and professional responsibility in information representation and respect to the logics of knowledge domains. It was also observed that the denying of such values lead to ethical problems like: bias, inaccuracies, omissions, prejudices, censorship, literal translations, lack of systematizion, as well as the belief on the neutrality and universality of KOR processes, products and tools.