[Sigcr-l] Workshop Announcement! SIG/CR - Defining the Limits of Classification Research & Practice

[Megan Winget]

Hello!

Attached please find information on the 2010 SIG/CR Workshop, which  
will be held on Wednesday October 27 at the Pittsburgh Hilton. We've  
got some great speakers, and will have an afternoon workshop session  
on defining the classification research. Please consider attending!

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Invitation to Participate: SIG/CR Annual Workshop: Defining the Limits  
of Classification Research & Practice

ASIS&T 2010′s conference theme, “Navigating Streams in an  
Information Ecosystem,” refers to the increasingly wide-ranging and  
expansive nature of our field, and provides SIG/CR with a valuable  
opportunity to investigate the limits of current classification  
research and begin developing models for expansion. This workshop will  
give participants a chance to reflect on essential questions related  
to information classification, representation and organization while  
exploring the future of the field. This is a full-day workshop, with  
morning and afternoon sessions.

The morning session will include papers from theoreticians and  
practitioners in the field, including:

Molly Tighe, Time Capsules Project Cataloguer, the Warhol Museum,  
Pittsburgh, PA. Ms. Tighe will describe her work at the Warhol Museum,  
where she is involved with a project to arrange and describe over 600  
boxes of items contained in the Andy Warhol Time Capsules.

Grant Campbell, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and  
Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Professor Campbell  
will present a paper "New Life for an Old Theory: Italo Calvino, the  
Future of the Web, and the Theory of Integrative Levels" This  
presentation will use Italo Calvino's analysis of creativity and  
cybernetics to suggest that the growth of sophisticated semantic  
networks in the Web of the future depends on a process that Feibleman  
identified years ago with his theory of integrative levels.

Joe Tennis, Assistant Professor at the School of Information at the  
University of Washington. His paper "Form, Intention, and Indexing:  
The Liminal and Integrated Conceptions Work in Knowledge Organization"  
will propose a dual conception of "the work" in knowledge organization.

Tim Spalding, Founder of LibraryThing. In this presentation, Mr.  
Spalding will discuss the intersection of traditional and social  
cataloging, specifically how LibraryThing for Libraries allows  
librarians to harness the "wisdom of the crowd" in unprecedented ways.  
Traditional library OPACs currently lack the mechanisms for collecting  
the knowledge and preferences of library patrons. Although the  
traditional cataloging and classification model - where a small group  
of specialists describe materials for the general public - works well  
enough for the job for which it was designed, the expectations of  
users have changed with the advent of web 2.0 technologies like  
Wikipedia, flickr, and Amazon recommendation systems. (*Note: this is  
a change from the original speaker from LibraryThing)

The afternoon session will build on the ideas presented in the morning  
session and will be devoted to small group and general discussion  
regarding the limits of classification research.

Specific questions include:

- Where is classification research headed?
- How can we best communicate our ideas and theories to researchers,  
students, and practitioners?
- What are some of the strengths of our current research methods, and  
what are our weaknesses?
- Are we working under any unexplored assumptions or biases?
- What are the goals of classification research?

Attendees will be asked to break into small groups in the afternoon to  
discuss these questions, then return for general discussion towards  
the end of the workshop.

Important Information:

Registration Information
( http://www.asis.org/asist2010/index.html )

For more information:
http://www.asis.org/asist2010/workshop-SIGCR.html

We hope to see you there!

On behalf of the workshop’s organizing committee,

--Megan Winget, Chair-Elect, SIG/CR

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Megan A. Winget, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Information
University of Texas at Austin
1616 Guadalupe, Ste. 5.202
Austin, TX 78701-1213
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Phone: 512.919.6100
Fax: 512.471.3971
web: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~megan/
email: megan at ischool.utexas.edu
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