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| 20th Annual SIG CR Workshop: Bridging Worlds, Connecting People: Classification Transcending Boundaries |
Full Day Seminar, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, 8:30am - 5:00pm (separate fee)
The day will open with a session on Indigenous Knowledge Organization featuring Cheryl Metoyer of the Information School, University of Washington on "Language, Text and Knowledge Organization: One Native American Story" and Ann Doyle, head of the Xwi7xwa Library, First Nations House of Learning, University of British Columbia on Indigenous Knowledge Organization: Issues and Narratives.”
Refereed Papers will follow:
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Beyond Aboutness: Classifying Causal Links in the Service of Interdisciplinarity. Rick Szostak, University of Alberta, and Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia, Italy
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Exploration of Interdisciplinarity in Nanotechnology Queries: The Use of Transaction Log Analysis and Thesauri. Ali Shiri, University of Alberta
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Developing a Cross-Disciplinary Typology of Topical Relevance Relationships. Xiaoli Huang, University of Maryland
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Emerging Genres, Information Structures, and Creative Manipulations. Amelia Abreu, University of Washington
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Fringe Types and KOS Systematics: Examining the Limits of the Population Perspective of Knowledge Organization Systems. Joseph Tennis, University of Washington
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Visualizing Similarity in Subject Term Co-Assignment. Jeff Gabel, Long Island University, and Richard Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Using Ontology Similarity Measures for Evaluating the Quality of Transmission of Evidence into Clinical Practice. Timothy Patrick, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Persuasive Design Strategies: Means to Improve the Use of Information Organisation and Search Features in Web Site Information Architecture? Marianne Lykke-Nielsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
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A Feasibility Study of Exploiting Social Tags to Discover the Sense of Words. Kwan Yi, University of Kentucky
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The Boundaries of Classification. Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto
There will also be opportunities to view posters and discuss them with the authors:
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Gender Expression in a Small World: Social Tagging of Transgender-Themed Books in LibraryThing. Melissa Adler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Functional Classification: Comparing Archival and Information Science Approaches. Luanne Freund and Victoria Lemieux, University of British Columbia
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From the Social to the Individual and Back: The Cognitive Materialist Interpretation of Boundary Objects and Its Implications for Knowledge Organization. Ingbert Floyd, Thomas Dousa, Michael Twidale, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Exploring Measures of Inter-Tagger Consistency. Margaret E.I. Kipp, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Ideal Matching, Real Matching: A Model. Kun Lu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Social tags and other kinds of subject access occurring library catalogs. Joan Lussky, Catholic University of America
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Evidence-based software engineering methods for development, analysis and evaluation of data structures. Heather Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University, and Emma Tonkin, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
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Accessibility and Cultural Factors in a Pluralistic World. Rosa San Segundo and Daniel Martinez Avila, Carlos III University of Madrid
Program Committee:
Clément Arsenault
Université de Montréal
Mikel Breitenstein
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Rebecca Green
Dewey Decimal Classification, OCLC
Corinne Jorgenson
Florida State Univerity
Barbara Kwasnik
Syracuse University
Joan Lussky
Catholic University of America
Jens-Erik Mai
University of Toronto
Hope A Olson, Chair
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dagobert Soergel
University of Maryland
Emma Tonkin
University of Bath
Fees
Members $150, non-members $170, before Sept. 25, 2009
Members $170, non-members $190, after Sept. 25, 2009