[Sigcr-l] Proposals for SIG/CR panels for next year's conference

[Andrew Grove]

Since I will edit the conference proceedings again for '07, I haven't time to do much more than suggest an idea or two.  Here goes:
1.  folksonomies as seeds for indexing languages, categories and categorization, classification, thesauri, and other taxonomic structures.  I have some ideas but no time to really develop them.  Of course, at the speed things happen in "cyberspace", all will be old news by October '07.
2.  walking the fine line between order and chaos - springboarding off the excellent panel on uncertainty at this year's conference.  What is the role of classification at the edges of knowledge?  How do we, or do we, classify unknown or emerging knowledge?  How about multiple "private" classifications?  How about the intersection of new and private - speaking of chaos...?  This is something I deal with everyday, it's a very real (and sometimes painful) issue.  Again, many ideas but little time to formally develop them.

Andrew


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From: sigcr-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigcr-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Kwasnik
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 3:52 PM
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Subject: [Sigcr-l] Proposals for SIG/CR panels for next year's conference

Final issue: ideas for panels for next year.

In the past, SIG/CR has been very prolific in submitting ideas for panels, but I understand that there will be more limitations on number of panels per SIG (Joe, did you find out anything more about this?).
Here's how the process works:
1. A person takes on organizing a panel and outlines the topic 2.Organizer chooses potential presenters and gets their tentative approval. If the panel will be co-sponsored it's sometimes the custom to reserve at least one of the speakers to be suggested by the cooperating SIG if they wish.
3. Organizer submits panel description according to specs to SIG/CR vice-president/presidentn elect who forwards them to the Conference Program Committee. I'm not sure the submission process still goes this way, but that's how it was in the past.
4. SIG/CR VP contacts the counterpart in other SIGs to get approval for co-sponsoring. Often this requires nothing more of the co-sponsors except an OK, or perhaps the suggestion of a speaker or adjustment to the proposal. As a rule, ASIST likes co-sponsored SIG Panels and you stand a better chance of acceptance if that is the case.
5. Panel is accepted or rejected by program committee.
6. If accepted, Organizer submits an abstract and info. about speakers by the deadline.
7. Organizer coordinates the panel at the conference (often, but not necessarily, as moderator or as one of the speakers) 8. SIG/CR gives Organizer a BIG pat on the back.

So, on to ideas for next year. As far as I know, we have only one thus far. Usually we spend some time at the planning meeting brainstorming, but this year we used up our time discussing all the other pressing issues.

The one suggestion is to have a reprise of Joseph Busch's panels on "Classification in Everyday Life." He said he'd be willing to organize them again. The two sessions we had were well attended, and those who spoke to us commented that they liked the mix of practitioner and academic perspectives. I personally thought they were very interesting sessions and was surprised by how much I learned from the guys doing classification work "in the trenches." Thanks for a great pair of session, Joseph. Barring any objections, I think we can proceed with this panel idea, so it's over to you Joseph to get that going.

Meanwhile, any other ideas?
Follow-up work on social tagging for instance?

I'll collect the ideas and pass them on to our new VP once he/she has been elected.

Barbara


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