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Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship and Sovereignty (DSISS): Report on the 2022 Workshop
(2023-10-05)The Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship and Sovereignty (DSISS) project is deriving its understanding of how to implement CARE (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics) through engagement ... -
Centering Washington Tribal Libraries: Establishing the Foundations
(Washington Library Association (online journal), 2023-01-23)In this article, we will describe a project called “Centering Washington Tribal Libraries: Building Relationships and Understanding Libraries from the Stories of Their Communities,” hereafter referred to as CWATL, based ... -
Repeat Spreaders and Election Delegitimization: A Comprehensive Dataset of Misinformation Tweets from the 2020 U.S. Election
(2022-09-15)This paper introduces and presents a first analysis of a uniquely curated dataset of misinformation, disinformation, and rumors spreading on Twitter about the 2020 U.S. election. Previous research on misinformation—an ... -
Indigenous Research Data Case Study: Toward Contextual Integrity for Indigenous Data
(2022-08-09)This white paper examines the complexities and constraints inherent in the stewardship of qualitative Indigenous research data. Framed by a background discussion covering Indigenous research approaches, ethical engagement, ... -
Open Data for Public Good: Final Report Narrative
(2021-06-24)This report summarizes the five-year trajectory of the Open Data Literacy project (ODL), formerly named Open Data for Public Good (ODPG). The purpose of ODL's work was to 1) Prepare future and current public librarians and ... -
Teaching Data Ethics: Foundations and Possibilities from Engineering and Computer Science Ethics Education
(2021)Ethical, social, and other considerations have been acknowledged as important for data science education. However, research is only beginning to emerge on how such considerations are being incorporated into data science ... -
Centering Relationality: A Conceptual Model to Advance Indigenous Knowledge Organization Practices
(2020-11)Scholars and practitioners have exposed the limitations of traditional Euro-American approaches to knowledge organization (KO) when it comes to Indigenous topics. To develop more effective KO practices, there is a need for ... -
‘Of course, data can never fully represent reality’: Assessing the relationship between Indigenous data and IK, TEK, and TK
(2020-11)Multiple terms describe Indigenous peoples' creative expressions, including “Indigenous knowledge” (IK), “traditional ecological knowledge” (TEK), “traditional knowledge” (TK), and increasingly, “Indigenous data” (ID). ... -
DCC Curation Lifecycle Model 2.0: Literature Review and Comparative Analysis
(2020-03)The literature covered in this report was gathered and reviewed as background for the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model 2.0 project. Led by Sayeed Choudhury at Johns Hopkins University and funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, ... -
Open Data for Public Good: Interim Performance Report Year 1, July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017
(2017-09-28)The Open Data for Public Good (ODPG) project began July 1, 2016. The purpose of ODPG’s work is threefold: 1. To prepare future and current public librarians to curate collections of open data of value to local ... -
Function, Purpose, Predication, and Context of Information Organization Frameworks
This paper outlines the purposes, predications, functions, and contexts of information organization frameworks; including: bibliographic control, information retrieval, resource discovery, resource description, open access ... -
Investigating the Roles and Requirements, Manifestations and Management of Metadata in the Creation of Reliable and Preservation of Authentic Electronic Entities Created by Dynamic, Interactive and Experiential Systems: Report on the Work and Findings of the Interpares 2 Description Cross Domain Group
Metadata that is associated with either an information system or an information object for purposes of description, administration, legal requirements, technical functionality, use and usage, and preservation, plays a ... -
Is There a New Bibliography?
Describes the position claiming that the contemporary technologi- cal, sociopolitical, and socioeconomic environment gives us pause to consider the core theory and practices of bibliography, combin- ing bibliography of the ... -
Forms, Foundations, and the Ethos of Foremost: Zen Practice, Epistemology, and Ontology in Reflective Knowledge Organization
In reflecting on the practice of knowledge organization, we tacitly or explicitly root our conceptions of work and its value in some epistemic and ontological foundation. Zen Buddhist philosophy offers a unique set of ... -
Fringe Types and KOS Systematics: Examining the Limits of the Population Perspective of Knowledge Organization Systems
We find ourselves, after the close of the twentieth century, looking back at a mass of responses to the knowledge organization problem. Many institutions, such as the Dewey Decimal Classification (Furner, 2007), have grown ... -
Foundational, First-Order, and Second-Order Classification Theory
Both basic and applied research on the construction, implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of classification schemes is called classification theory. If we employ Ritzer’s metatheoretical method of analysis on the ... -
Facets of Access: a Typology of Information Dissemination Systems
In this poster, we describe a new way of conceptualizing relationships between systems for information dissemination throughout history, based on a set of basic attributes or facets. This poster illustrates one way in which ...
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