[Sighfis-l] CALL FOR PAPERS: Classification Research Workshop 2005

[Andersen Jack]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

16th ASIS&T SIG-CR Classification Research Workshop, 2005
Saturday October 29, 2005

What knowledge organization does and how it does it: 
Critical Studies in and of Classification and Indexing



Keynote speech: 
"An Institutional Perspective on Knowledge Organization - Implications for
theoretical development"
Joacim Hansson, Associate Professor, PhD, The Swedish School of Library and
Information Studies, University College of Borås, Sweden.


Much classification research, and knowledge organization research in
general, has tended to be concerned with rules, principles, standards or
techniques; that is, with prescriptive issues. This workshop will focus on
descriptive issues.  In a world where people are more in touch with systems
of organized knowledge than ever before, such systems play a vital social,
political and cultural role in our professional and everyday-life activities
as they mediate, shape and are shaped by forms of social organization.
Knowledge organization research must therefore be concerned with producing
understandings and reflections of the role of systems of organized knowledge
in human activities in order to inform research and users, perceived as
active social and cultural agents, of those systems.  

This workshop will critically examine knowledge organization in action, that
is, how, why and by and for whom knowledge organization operate. It is of
critical importance that the knowledge organization research community
investigates such issues as they influence on how users employ systems of
knowledge organization, how they perceive them and what they expect of them.
Thus, the understandings and reflections produced by knowledge organization
research should be used to explain and reveal to users what systems of
knowledge organization mediate, whose discourses speak and do not.

We are in particular interested in papers that address, but are not limited
to, the following themes:
	*	Historical analyses of classification & indexing systems
			o	E.g. analyzing the arguments, politics &
motivation behind classification & indexing systems
			o	Conditions of possibilities of knowledge
organization
	*	Theoretical & empirical studies of knowledge organization
systems in action
			o	E.g. in industry, science, politics, law,
business, religion
			o	But NOT papers purely reporting a research
project or an empirical study
	*	How is a given subject field represented in a given
classification system
			o	E.g. how is fiction described & outlined in
Dewey, Bliss or UDC
	*	Classification & indexing as social action
			o	E.g. how do classification & indexing act in
human activities and for whom
	*	Genre theory and its connection to classification and
indexing
			o	The role of document forms in classification
and indexing
			o	The relationship between genre systems,
activity systems and knowledge organization
	*	Critical theory and its connection to classification and
indexing
			o	E.g. is knowledge organization reproducing
or opposing dominant ideologies or discourses and in what way(s)
	*	Social theory and its connection to classification and
indexing
			o	E.g. how do we understand and describe
knowledge organization activity in light of particular social theories
	*	Activity theory and its connection to classification and
indexing
			o	E.g. knowledge organization as a human
activity
			o	E.g. knowledge organization as tool
			o	E.g. knowledge organization as mediation

Accepted papers are to be presented at the workshop and will be published in
Advances in Classification Research.

Important dates 
Deadline full papers: May 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2005
Deadline revised paper: September 1, 2005

Send papers to Jack Andersen, jan at db.dk <mailto:jan at db.dk> 

Chair: Jack Andersen, Assistant Professor, PhD, Royal School of Library and
Information Science, Denmark
 
Program committee:
Clare Beghtol, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto;
clare.beghtol at utoronto.ca <mailto:clare.beghtol at utoronto.ca>  
Mats Dahlström, The Swedish School of Library and Information Studies,
University College of Borås, Sweden; Mats.Dahlstrom at hb.se
<mailto:Mats.Dahlstrom at hb.se> 
Birger Hjørland, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark;
bh at db.dk <mailto:bh at db.dk> 
Bernd Frohmann, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, The University of
Western Ontario; frohmann at uwo.ca <mailto:frohmann at uwo.ca> 
Jens-Erik Mai, The Information School, University of Washington;
jemai at u.washington.edu <mailto:jemai at u.washington.edu> 
Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark; mln at db.dk <mailto:mln at db.dk> 
Stephen Paling, Department of Library and Information Studies, School of
Informatics, University of Buffalo, State University of New York;
swpaling at buffalo.edu <mailto:swpaling at buffalo.edu>  

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Jack Andersen, Assistant Professor, PhD
Department of Information Studies
Royal School of Library and Information Science
Birketinget 6, 2300 DK-Copenhagen S, Denmark
Phone: +45 32 58 60 66. Room A3.01
Fax: +45 32 84 02 01
E-mail: jan at db.dk
http://www.db.dk/jan