[Asis-l] SIG/CR at ASIS&T -- program

[Adler, Melissa A]

The program for this year’s SIG/CR workshop is now available. We have some excellent speakers on topics that will be of interest to metadata and knowledge organization researchers and practitioners. Please join us!


Conceptual Crowbars and Classification at the Crossroads: The Impact and Future of Classification Research

Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/Classification Research
ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 7, 2015, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, USA

https://sigcr.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/sigcr-workshop-schedule/


8:30 Arrival / 8:40 Welcome


8:45-9:45: Session 1 – Space/time/semantics

Karen M. Wickett, University of Texas at Austin, Modeling Classifications and Value Vocabularies with Situation Semantics

Yejun Wu, Louisiana State University and Li Yang, Southwest Petroleum University, China, Exploring Completeness and Balanced Perspectives in Classifications: Case Studies of Violence and Man-Made Disaster

Joseph Busch, Principal—Taxonomy Strategies, Revisiting Historical Source Information


9:45-10:00, Break


10:00-10:40: Session 2 – Ontology/Epistemology/Culture

Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington, On Operationalization and Evaluation of Epistemic and Ontological Claims to Knowledge Organization

Richard Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Cultural Pervasiveness or Objective Violence?: Three Questions about KOS as Cultural Arbiters


10:40-11:00, Break


11:00-12:00: Session 3 – Social/Personal/DIY

Lala Hajibayova, Kent State University, Participatory Systems of Knowledge Representation and Organization

Audrey Lorberfeld and Elan May Rinck, University of Washington, Structural (In)visibility: Possible Effects of Constructing a Controlled Vocabulary on a Niche Domain

Ronald Day, Indiana University, Social Classifications, Affect, and Human Actions

12:00-12:30: Discussion and wrap-up

Melissa Adler, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Information Science
University of Kentucky
341 Little Library Building
Lexington, KY 40506-0224
(859) 218-2294
melissa.adler at uky.edu
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