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Caveat Fractal: Dissecting the Body of Indexing Theory, Uncovering Complexity, and Moving Toward Performativity
Research poster about indexing theory -
Collocative Integrity and Our Many Varied Subjects: What the Metric of Alignment between Classification Scheme and Indexer Tells Us About Langridge’s Theory of Indexing
As the universe of knowledge and subjects change over time, indexing languages like classification schemes, accommodate that change by restructuring. Restructuring indexing languages affects indexer and cataloguer work. ... -
Comparative Functional Analysis of Boundary Infrastructures, Library Classification, and Folksonomies
This paper outlines three information organization frameworks: library classification, social tagging, and boundary infrastructures. It then outlines functionality of these frameworks. The paper takes a neo-pragmatic ... -
A Conceptual Model for Video Games and Interactive Media
(2015-04)In this article, we describe a conceptual model for video games and interactive media. Existing conceptual models such as the functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) are not adequate to represent the unique ... -
Constructs in Knowledge Organization Systems: Rhythm in Time, Intention, and Form
In the context of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, we often consider knowledge organization systems to comprise catalogues, thesauri, and bibliothecal classification schemes – schemes for library ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
Developing a Video Game Metadata Schema for the Seattle Interactive Media Museum
(University of Washington, 2015-06)As interest in video games increases, so does the need for intelligent access to them. However, traditional organizational systems and standards fall short. To fill this gap, we are collaborating with the Seattle Interactive ... -
Diachronic and Synchronic Indexing: Modeling Conceptual Change in Indexing Languages
This paper outlines a model of conceptual change in indexing languages. Findings from this modeling effort point to three ways meaning and relationships are established and then change in an indexing language. These ways: ... -
Early Literacy in Library Storytimes: A Study of Measures of Effectiveness
(The Library Quarterly, 2017-01)Across the nation, librarians work with caregivers and children to encourage engagement in their early literacy programs. However, these early literacy programs that libraries provide have been left mostly undocumented by ... -
Emerging Concepts in Ontogenic Analysis
Subject ontogeny is the life of the subject in an indexing language (e.g., classification scheme like the DDC). Examining how a subject is treated over time tells us about the anatomy of an indexing language. For example, ... -
Empirical Evaluation of Metadata for Video Games and Interactive Media
(University of Washington Information School, 2015-05)Despite increasing interest in and acknowledgment of the significance of video games, current descriptive practices are not sufficiently robust to support searching, browsing, and other access behaviors from diverse user ... -
Epistemic, Ontic, Axiologic, and Praxic Constructs in Knowledge Organization Research
The work of knowledge organization requires a particular set of tools. For instance we need standards of content description like Anglo-American Cataloging Rules Edition 2, Resource Description and Access (RDA), Cataloging ... -
Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology in Knowledge Organization: Toward a Classification, Metatheory, and Research Framework
This paper proposes a preliminary classification of knowledge organization research, divided among epistemology, theory, and methodology plus three spheres of research: design, study, and critique. This work is situated ... -
Ethos and Ideology of Knowledge Organization: Toward Precepts for and Engaged Knowledge Organization Drawing on The Arts and Crafts Movement, Critical Theory, and Žižek
Ethos is the spirit that motivates ideas and practices. When we talk casually about the ethos of a town, state, or country we are describing the fundamental or at least underlying rationale for action, as we see it. Ideology ... -
Ethos and Ideology of Knowledge Organization: Toward Precepts for anEngaged Knowledge Organization
This paper provides rationale for considering precepts for an engaged knowledge organization based on a Buddhist conception of intentional action. Casting knowledge organization work as craft, this paper employs Žižek’s ... -
Evidence of Term-Structure Differences among Folksonomies and Controlled Indexing Languages
With the advent of Internet-based technologies for information organization, many groups have constructed their own indexing languages. Biologists, Library and Information Science practitioners, and now social taggers have ... -
Experientialist Epistemology and Classification Theory: Embodied and Dimensional Classification
What theoretical framework can help in building, maintaining and evaluating networked knowledge organization resources? Specifically, what theoretical framework makes sense of the semantic prowess of ontologies and ... -
Extending the Simple Knowledge Organization System for Concept Management in Vocabulary Development Applications
In this article, we describe the development of an exten- sion to the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to accommodate the needs of vocabulary devel- opment applications (VDA) managing metadata schemes and requiring ... -
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 ...