[sigCR] Classification Research Workshop: November 1, 2014, Seattle WA

[Grant Campbell]

[Apologies for any cross-posting.]





The Special Interest Group in
Classification Research will be holding its annual workshop at ASIST on
November 1, 2014, at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Seattle Washington.
 
 
 
http://www.asis.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_SIG_CR.html
 
 
 
Register early to take
advantage of ASIST’s Early Bird rates, which are in place until September 18.
 
 
 
This workshop brings our most
current research in such areas as big data and linked data to bear on some
fundamental beams of our information infrastructure: our great general classification
schemes, such as Dewey Decimal Classification, Universal Decimal
Classification, and Library of Congress 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.
 
 
 
Among the presentations
scheduled for the workshop:
 
 
 
Melissa Adler,
“The Library of Congress Classification as a Deleuzian diagram”
 
Rebecca Green,
“Moving towards a topic-based DDC”
 
Barbara
Kwaśnik , “Mapping interdependencies among knowledge domains”
 
Richard
Smiraglia, “Extending the visualization of classification interaction with
semantic associations”
 
Joseph Tennis
“Intensional megacities: Toward mapping the semantics of linked classification
schemes”
 
Hur-Li Yi, “Survey
of automated classification based on classification schemes: A study of
methodology”
 
 
 
Please join
us in Seattle for this exciting event.
 
 
 
Regards,
 
Grant
Campbell
 
Chair,
SIG/CR
 

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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