[sigCR] Call for Proposals: SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, November 1, 2014

[Grant Campbell]

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
 

 
 

 



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D. Grant Campbell
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
N6A 5B7
519-661-2111 ext.88483