[sigCR] FINAL CALL for proposals: SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop

[Jonathan Furner]

Dear ISKO and ASIS&T SIG/CR members,

Please note that the deadline for submitting proposals of papers for presentation at the 25th SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop in Seattle, WA, on November 1, 2014, has been extended. The deadline for submitting an extended abstract of 500 words is now AUGUST 31, 2014. Please see the attached Call for Proposals, and consider submitting (to furner at gseis.ucla.edu) a proposal that relates to this year's theme of "Universal Classification in the 21st Century."

All the best,
Jonathan Furner


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Grant Campbell <gcampbel at uwo.ca>
> Subject: [isko-l] Call for Proposals: SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, November 1, 2014
> Date: July 12, 2014 7:44:30 AM PDT
> To: ISKO-L <isko-l at lists.gseis.ucla.edu>, SIIGCR-L <sigcr-l at asis.org>, JESSE-L <JESSE at listserv.utk.edu>
> 
> Apologies for Cross-Posting:
> 
> On behalf of Dr. Jonathan Furner, program chair for SIG/CR 2014, I am delighted to present the following call for proposals for our 2014 Classification Research Workshop, to take place on November 1, 2014, just prior to the annual ASIST meeting in Seattle, WA.
> 
> Regards,
> Grant Campbell
> Call for Proposals:
> “Universal Classification in the 21st Century”
> SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop
> http://sigcr.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/149/
> 
> Saturday, November 1, 2014
> 
> ASIST Annual Meeting
> Seattle, WA
> 
> ASIST’s Special Interest Group in Classification Research will hold its annual Classification Research Workshop as part of the ASIST Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 2014. The Workshop Program Committee is currently inviting proposals for papers to be presented at the workshop.
> 
> DUE DATES:
> 
> Proposals are due on Friday, August 15. Please submit your proposal in PDF or RTF format to Jonathan Furner at furner at gseis.ucla.edu
> 
> Notice of acceptance will be sent before the Earlybird Deadline for the ASIST Conference Registration.
> 
> 
> THEME
> 
> As our global information environment moves further into the twenty-first century, historic tensions continue to challenge us: the tensions between universal standards and local variations; between empirical and critical-discursive approaches; between an infrastructure that pushes us towards homogeneity and communities that insist on their specificity and individuals who insist upon their rights to privacy.
> 
> In particular, recent trends in the areas of both linked data and big data suggest that much of our information environment will be shaped by the need for an underlying infrastructure of classification that will enable us to combine data collected from different sources and for different purposes. Whatever the future holds for professional bibliographic control, crowdsourced indexing, big data algorithms or linked data ontologies, our future information environment will be shaped by harmonization: developing the means to reconcile diversity into a coherent structure than facilitates the development of information systems and information communities that do tangible good for their users.
> 
> With such a pressing need for harmonization, the time is ripe to revisit the great general classification schemes: the Dewey Decimal Classification, the Library of Congress Classification, and the Universal Decimal Classification. As instances of universal classificatory synthesis, these systems, in their rich history and active maintenance stand on the threshold of an intriguing, but as yet undefined future role in the twenty-first century. They could serve as exemplars and prototypes of future systems; they could be adapted into universal ontologies in their own right; they could exist in a dialogic and contrapuntal relationship with systems designed on different principles.
> 
> 
> Topics appropriate to the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
> 
> actions, decisions, goals, interests, needs, tasks of GCS users
> activist, critical, discourse-analytic, postcolonial, queer approaches to the study of GCSs
> analytical, epistemological, formal, historical, ontological, rationalist, semantic, semiotic approaches to GCS design
> automatic GCS-construction, classification, clustering
> benefits and risks of globalization, localization, standardization, universalization
> bibliometric, computational, graph/networktheoretic, probabilistic, statistical approaches to GCS design
> big data and GCSs
> cognitive, empirical, naturalistic, pragmatic, social, taxonomic approaches to GCS design
> conceptual and formal models for GCSs
> design and evaluation of GCSs, of interfaces to GCSs, of methods of research into GCSs
> ethical and political issues for GCS developers and users
> evaluation of the use and/or utility of GCSs
> folk/natural classifications and GCSs
> folksonomies and GCSs
> graphical displays and visualizations of GCS class hierarchies, networks, queries, results
> hybrid designs for the integration of crowdsourced and institutional content
> information retrieval and GCSs
> interoperability among GCSs, and between GCSs and special classification schemes
> knowledge discovery and GCSs
> knowledge production and GCSs
> Linked Open Data and GCSs
> Semantic Web and GCSs
> use of GCSs by specific groups, and/or for specific purposes
> use of GCSs in discipline-, domain-, field-, industry-, institution-, organization-specific contexts
> web search and GCSs
> web services and GCSs
> 
> FORMAT OF PROPOSALS:
> 
> Authors wishing to present a paper may submit a 500-word extended abstract. Extended abstracts should contain citations (not included in the word count). Presentations will be a maximum of 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
> 
> 
> After the workshop, full papers will be published online in
> Advances in Classification Research Online, http://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/acro
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> ------------------- 
> D. Grant Campbell
> Associate Professor
> Faculty of Information and Media Studies
> University of Western Ontario
> London, Ontario
> N6A 5B7
> 519-661-2111 ext.88483


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Jonathan Furner, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
http://jfurner.info