North
American Symposium on Knowledge Organization
June
16-17, 2011
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Location:
Rogers Communications Centre, Rooms 359a and 361 (Southeast corner of building) Ryerson University [80 Gould St. Corner of Gould and Church]
Program
Thursday, June 16 |
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8:00-8:45 |
Registration |
8:45-9:00 |
Opening Session |
9:00-10:30 |
Paper Session 1 - Moderator: Kathryn La Barre
Analysis of metadata schemas for children’s libraries Jihee Beak, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Hope A. Olson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Soviet classifications and situated knowledges
Chloë Edwards, University of Texas at Austin Controlled vocabularies and tags: An analysis of research methods
Margaret E. I. Kipp, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Wittgenstein and web facets
Elizabeth Milonas, New York City College of Technology |
10:30-11:00 |
Poster session / Coffee Break [Hosted by Abby Goodrum] Information organization in online bookstores: a human centered perspective Justyna Berzowska, University of British Columbia Blogs, news, home pages, FAQs: How Web genre affects tagging vocabulary? Lala Hajibayova, Indiana University, Bloomington Knowing What We Teach: Toward a Taxonomic Model of Learning Objectives and Outcomes Assessment in Knowledge Organization Education
David A. Jank, Long Island University Tags and the Cyborg Manifesto Kristin Johannesson, Uppsala University, Sweden Dimensions and Types of Consumer Vocabulary in Health Information Organization Soohyung Joo & Yunseon Choi, University of Illinois Influence of Tagging Systems on User Supplied Tags for Web Resources
Chuttur M. Yasser, Indiana University, Bloomington |
11:00-12:30 |
Paper Session 2 - Moderator: Nancy Williamson
See-also relationships in the Dewey Decimal Classification * Rebecca Green, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: A Case Study of Social Discovery Systems in Two Canadian Public Libraries Louise F. Spiteri, Dalhousie University Teaching bibliographic classification In The 21st Century
Michèle Hudon, Université de Montréal |
12:30-2:00 |
Lunch |
2:00-3:30 |
Panel - Moderator: Joseph T. Tennis
Elementary structures: universe of knowledge or universe of concepts? Charles van den Heuvel , The Huygens Institute in The Hague (The Netherlands) Thomas M. Dousa, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Richard Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
3:30-4:00 |
Poster Session/ Coffee Break [Hosted by Abby Goodrum] |
4:00-5:30 |
Paper Session 3 - Moderator: Margaret E. I. Kipp
Knowledge Organization under digital inversion: A theory for
cooperative librarian organizing practices for online textual
artifacts
Steven L. MacCall, The University of Alabama A domain-analytic perspective on sexual health in LCSH and RVM Jill McTavish, The University of Western Ontario Alexandre Fortier, The University of Western Ontario Biases in knowledge representation: an analysis of the feminine domain
in Brazilian indexing languages
Suellen Oliveira Milani, São Paulo State University - UNESP José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, São Paulo State University - UNESP |
5:30-7:30 |
ISKO-C/US business meeting |
Friday,
June 17 |
|
8:00-9:30 |
Paper Session 4 - Moderator: D. Grant Campbell
Multidimensional classifications: Past and future conceptualizations and visualizations Charles van den Heuvel, The Huygens Institute in The Hague (The Netherlands) An examination of interdisciplinary theory between cognitive categorization and knowledge organization Aaron Loehrlein, The University of British Columbia Returning the (faceted) gaze: Reflections on representation, meaning and form Kathryn
La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Towards a typology of classificatory change David M. Pimentel, Syracuse University |
9:30-10:00 |
Poster Session/ Coffee Break [Hosted by Abby Goodrum] |
10:00-11:30 |
Paper Session 5 - Moderator: Michèle Hudon
Prototype theory: An alternative concept theory for categorizing sex and gender? Melodie J. Fox, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Concretes, countries, and processes in Julius O. Kaiser’s Theory of
Systematic Indexing: A case study in the definition of general
categories Thomas M. Dousa, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Mapping subjectivity: performing people-centered vocabulary alignment Cristina Pattuelli, Pratt Institute |
11:30-1:00 |
Lunch |
1:00-2:30 |
Workshop
Instantiation: Metadata models,
rationales and realities for Knowledge Organization Richard P. Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
2:30-3:00 |
Poster Session/ Coffee Break [Hosted by Abby Goodrum] |
3:00-4:30 |
Paper Session 6 - Moderator: Lynne Howarth
Ranganathan’s layers of classification theory and the FASDA model of
classification Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington The discursive construction of archival science: Conceptual foundations
Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros, São Paulo State University João Batista Ernesto de Moraes, São Paulo State University RDA and RDF: A discourse analysis of two standards of resource description D. Grant Campbell, University of Western Ontario Contentious categories Katherine Thornton, University of Washington |
4:30 |
Closing Session |
* indicates highest ranked papers by the program committee