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Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Problems and Perspectives for LIS Professionals
Many years have passed since Berners-Lee envi- sioned the Web as it should be (1999), but still many information professionals do not know their precise role in its development, especially con- cerning ontologies –considered ... -
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 ... -
Principles of knowledge organization: analysis and structures in the networked environment
Knowledge organization in the networked environment is guided by standards. Standards in knowledge organization are built on principles. For example, NISO Z39.19-1993 Guide to the Construction of Monolingual Thesauri (now ... -
Puget Sound’s MARS (Media Asset Retrieval System) Digital Library
The MARS (Media Asset Retrieval System) Project is a collaboration between public broadcasters, libraries and schools in the Puget Sound region to assess the needs of their constituents and pool resources to develop solutions ... -
Ranganathan’s Layers of Classification Theory and the FASDA Model of Classification
Describes four waves of Ranganathan’s dynamic theory of classification. Outlines components that distinguish each wave, and porposes ways in which this understanding can inform systems design in the contemporary environment, ... -
Scheme Versioning in the Semantic Web
This paper describes a conceptual framework and meth- odology for managing scheme versioning for the Semantic Web. The first part of the paper introduces the concept of vocabulary encoding schemes, distinguished from ... -
SKOS and the Ontogenesis of Vocabularies
The paper suggests extensions to SKOS Core to make explicit where concepts in a knowledge organization system have changed from one version of the system to another. -
Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing: Fordist Relexivity and Intertextuality
Social tagging, as a particular type of indexing, has thrown into question the nature of indexing. Is it a democratic process? Can we all benefit from user-created tags? What about the value added by professionals? Employing ... -
Some Temporal Aspects of Indexing and Classification: Toward a Metrics for Measuring Scheme Change
In this paper we discuss the temporal aspects of indexing and classification in information systems. Basing this discussion off of the three sources of research of scheme change: of indexing: (1) analytical research on the ... -
Subject Ontogeny: Subject Access through Time and the Dimensionality of Classification
Classification schemes undergo revision. However, in a networked environment revisions can be used to add dimensionality to classification. This dimensionality can be used to help explain conceptual warrant, explain the ... -
Term Morphologies as Meaningful Typology Characteristics for Indexing Languages
Every indexing language is made up of terms. Those terms have morphological characteristics. These include terms made up of single words, two words, or more. We can also take into account the total number of terms.We can ... -
Terminology Cross-Domain Final Report
The InterPARES 2 Terminology Cross-Domain has created three terminological instruments in service to the project, and by extension, Archival Science. Over the course of the five-year project this Cross-Domain has collected ... -
The Economic and Aesthetic Axis of Information Organization Frameworks
This paper argues that in order to systematically comprehend the diversity of information organization frameworks, we must look at how aesthetic concerns and economic concerns manifest in decisions made about designing and ... -
The Notion of the “Concept Instance”: Problems in Modeling Concept Change in SKOS
The U.S. National Science Foundation metadata registry under development for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is a repertory intended to manage both metadata schemes and schemas. The focus of this draft discussion ... -
The Strange Case of Eugenics: A Subject’s Ontogeny in a Long-Lived Classification Scheme and the Question of Collocative Integrity
Classification schemes are built at a particular point in time; at inception, they reflect a worldview indicative of that time. This is their strength, but results in potential weak- nesses as worldviews change. For example, ... -
The Weight of Language and Action: Epistemic Stance, Methodological Action,and Theoretical Perspective in Knowledge Organization
Knowledge organization (KO) research is a field of scholarship concerned with the design, study and critique of the processes of organizing and representing documents that societies see as worthy of preserving (Tennis, ... -
Theory, Culture and Society Vol. 23 (2-3) Edited by Mike Featherstone
Review of May 2006 issue of journal Theory, Culture, and Society. -
Three Creative Tensions in Document Interpretation Theory Set as Evidence of the Need fora Descriptive Informatics
Describes three tensions in the theoretical literature of indexing: chief sources of evidence indexing, process of indexing (rubrics and methods), and philosophical position of indexing scholarship. Following this exposition, ... -
Three Spheres of Classification Research: Emergence, Encyclopedism, and Ecology
Three paths of interdisciplinary work shape the future of classification research.emergence, encyclopedism, and ecology. Each of these, in method, approach, and in substantive inquiry outline both the boundaries and the ...