[sigCR] SIG/CR news

[Adler, Melissa A]

Dear Colleagues,

I am very happy to report that Barbara Kwasnik (Professor, Syracuse) is Chair-elect for SIG/CR. Lala Hajibayova (Assistant Professor, Kent State) is Secretary/treasurer, and Laura Ridenour (doctoral student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) is the Communications Officer. Melissa Adler (Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky) is the current chair.

We had a successful half-day workshop on Saturday, November 7, with productive conversations about the direction and impact of classification research. There were some familiar faces and many new attendees and speakers. Papers and abstracts will be published in Advances in Classification Research Online in the not-too-distant future.

A heartfelt thanks goes out to participants and attendees at this year's workshop and meeting. Thanks also to the workshop organizing committee: Barbara Kwasnik, Joseph Tennis, and Jonathan Furner. And to Jonathan for serving as Chair this past year. It has been a privilege.

ASIS&T will be held in Copenhagen next year, and we are hoping to sponsor many panels. 2016 conference information is here: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/
Please let us know if you are interested in submitting a proposal related to Classification Research!
Also of note, Dublin Core-2016 will be held in Copenhagen at the same time, so we anticipate excellent opportunities for collaboration and conversation.

At the business meeting we arrived at a theme for next year's workshop. Barbara will be sending information on this soon.

Please, if you have any questions or thoughts about SIG/CR, send me a note. melissa.adler at uky.edu<mailto:melissa.adler at uky.edu>

For your reference, the workshop schedule from the St. Louis workshop is posted below.

Warm regards,
Melissa Adler



8:45-9:45: Session 1 – Space/time/semantics

Karen M. Wickett, University of Texas at Austin, Modeling Classifications and Value Vocabularies with Situation Semantics

Yejun Wu, Louisiana State University and Li Yang, Southwest Petroleum University, China, Exploring Completeness and Balanced Perspectives in Classifications: Case Studies of Violence and Man-Made Disaster

Joseph Busch, Principal—Taxonomy Strategies, Revisiting Historical Source Information

10:00-10:40: Session 2 – Ontology/Epistemology/Culture

Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington, On Operationalization and Evaluation of Epistemic and Ontological Claims to Knowledge Organization

Richard Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Cultural Pervasiveness or Objective Violence?: Three Questions about KOS as Cultural Arbiters

11:00-12:00: Session 3 – Social/Personal/DIY

Lala Hajibayova, Kent State University, Participatory Systems of Knowledge Representation and Organization

Audrey Lorberfeld and Elan May Rinck, University of Washington, Structural (In)visibility: Possible Effects of Constructing a Controlled Vocabulary on a Niche Domain

Ronald Day, Indiana University, Social Classifications, Affect, and Human Actions


Melissa Adler, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Information Science
University of Kentucky
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