[Sigcr-l] SIG/CR Workshop 2010 - Theme Ideas

Jane Greenberg janeg at email.unc.edu
Sat Oct 17 13:13:37 EDT 2009


Greetings everyone,

Hot off the press the DublinCore 2010 conference will be held in 
Pittsburgh October 20-22, in conjunction with ASIST 2010 (see: 
http://dublincore.org/).  ASIST runs Oct. 24-27, and ASIST pre-conf. 
seminars run Oct. 22-23.  This is an outstanding opportunity, and prime 
for some good synergy and cross-over among our very related communities.

There are recent DCMI developments focused on KOS (knowledge organizations 
system); additionally there are communities specific to (1.) 
metadata/vocabulary registries, and (2.) social tagging (see: 
http://dublincore.org/groups/, and scroll down for list of communities). I 
suspect more will be coming out soon on the KOS related activities. 
Additionally, DCMI folks have been engaged in various SKOS (simple 
knowledge organisation systems) and Semantic Web developments.

And, with respect to SIG/CR, of course very interesting ongoing 
developments and discussions always!! Just consider the theme of this 
year's SIG/CR workshop, bridging worlds..connecting people and 
classification transcending boundaries; and Hope's recent post to push our 
thinking about indigenous knowledge organization.

And, there is ALA marking 2010 the year of cataloging research!

Lots to blend in our pot, but an exciting opportunity for SIG/CR and all 
of us.

best wishes, jane


On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Hope A Olson wrote:

> The focus of Indigenous Knowledge Organization is the development of vocabularies, classifications, etc appropriate in terms of coverage, language, arrangement, and structure to Indigenous cultures as opposed to mainstream KO standards. They may or may not be folk taxonomies. They fit into the here and now of Indigenous cultures which have interfaces with the settler cultures that we think of as mainstream. The Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku/Māori Subject Headings http://mshupoko.natlib.govt.nz/mshupoko is a good example of an attempt to develop a culturally viable option, but can also function in a mainstream context. It is one of the best established instances, but there are also many others and a strong interest internationally in developing this area. 
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> Metadata schemata for Indigenous materials would be a related area of interest . 
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> Does that help clarify? 
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> Hope 
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> ----- "Simon Spero" <sesuncedu at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> From: "Simon Spero" <sesuncedu at gmail.com> 
>> To: holson at uwm.edu 
>> Cc: sigcr-l at asis.org 
>> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:14:44 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
>> Subject: Re: [Sigcr-l] SIG/CR Workshop 2010 - Theme Ideas 
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Hope A Olson < holson at uwm.edu > wrote: 
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> [...] in addition, our opening session on Indigenous Knowledge Organization will be particularly boundary-crossing. 
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>> Exit Question: Is Indigenous Knowledge Organization the opposite of Folk Taxonomy ?
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