North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization

July 9-11, 2021

Online conference

Location

Online conference sponsored by the University of Washington

Program

N.B. All times are listed in Pacific Time (PT).

Day 1: Friday, July 9, 2021 (Convert times to your time zone)

9:00-9:15 AM Pacific Time Welcome
9:15-10:30 AM Pacific Time SESSION 1 Papers: KO and Indigenous Worldviews

Session Chair: Deborah Lee
KO in Support of an Indigenous Worldview: A Community Driven Metadata Framework for the Inuvialuit Digital Library [long paper]
Sharon Farnel

Comparing the Cataloguing of Indigenous Scholarship: First Steps and Findings [long paper]
Tamara Lee, Sarah Dupont, & Julia Bullard
10:35-10:45 AM Pacific Time Coffee and Conversation

Discussion Session Chair: Ann Graf
[Main break room with themed breakout rooms]

Theme #1: Choosing our priorities: findability or equity?
Theme Session Chair: Violet Fox

Theme #2: Automated approaches to KO
Theme Session Chair: Laura Ridenour
10:45-11:45 AM Pacific Time SESSION 2 Papers: Resource Description in Social and Cultural Context

Session Chair: Wan-Chen Lee
The Sears List of Subject Headings; Social and Cultural Dimensions in Historical, Theoretical, and Design Contexts [short paper]
Chris Holstrom

Authorship Metadata for Video Games: “Collaborator”, “Creator”, or “Auteur”? [short paper]
Hyerim Cho, Heather Moulaison-Sandy, and Chris Hubbles

What is Genre? How Do We Talk about Fiction?: Assessing Complementary Schemas and Approaches [short paper]
Denice Adkins, Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Jenny Bossaller, & Hyerim Cho
12:00-2:00 PM Pacific Time SESSION 3: Doctoral Symposium By Invitation Only

Day 2: Saturday, July 10, 2021 (Convert times to your time zone)

9:00-10:15 AM Pacific Time SESSION 4 Papers: KO in History and Culture, History and Culture in KO

Session Chair: Widad Mustafa
Re-examining Aristotle’s Categories as KOS [Long paper]
Brian Dobreski

Imperialism and Indexing: The case of Julius O. Kaiser’s Systematic Indexing [long paper]
Thomas M. Dousa

Bibliographic Data as a Source of Evidence for Cultural Investigation [long paper]
Gregory Leazer
10:20-10:55 AM Pacific Time [BYOL] Big Ideas, Great Careers: A Conversation with Two Legends of KO: Lynne Howarth and Richard Smiraglia

Session Chair: Thomas Dousa
11:00-11:40 AM Pacific Time SESSION 5 Papers: Ontologies

Session Chair: Brian Dobreski
Latour’s Hotel Keys: Actor-Network Ontologies [short paper]
Shawn Goodwin & Evan Kuehn

Modeling Ephraim Chambers’ Knowledge Structure from a Naïve Standpoint [short paper]
Scott McClellan, Mat Kelly, & Jane Greenberg

DARSI: An Ontology for Facilitating the Development of Data Sharing and Use Agreements [short paper]
Micaela Greene, Sam Grabus, & Jane Greenberg
11:45 AM-12:15 PM Pacific Time SESSION 6 Papers: Social Media in the Age of the Hashtag

Session Chair: Grant Campbell
It’s Only a Meme if it’s from the Knowledge Organization Region of Information Science, Otherwise It’s Just a Tweet [short paper]
Kiley Jolicoeur & Rachel Ivy Clarke

Hashtag analysis of the graffiti art response to Covid-19 on Instagram [short paper]
Ann Graf
12:15-12:30 PM Pacific Time Coffee and Conversation

Discussion Session Chair: Grant Campbell
[Main break room with themed breakout rooms]

Theme #1: Education in KO
Theme Session Chair: Karen Snow

Theme #2: KO in practice; KO in libraries, archives, and museums
Moderator-free zone
12:30-2:00 PM Pacific Time SESSION 7 Papers: Critical KO for Society: Law, Healthcare, and Scholarship

Session Chair: Barbara H. Kwasnik
Advancing Equitable Cataloging [long paper]
Brian Watson

Out of the Ordinary: Common Use Arguments in Legislative Classification [long paper]
Carlin Soos

Nursing Information Behavior (NIB) in the Pandemic: Resilience of a Knowledge Base [short paper]
Richard Smiraglia, Elizabeth Milonas, Sergey Zherebchevsky, & Edmund Pajarillo

“Nothing About Us Without Us”: The Case for User Warrant in the ICD-11 [short paper]
Jordan Correia

Tracing the Influence of Grey literature on Publications: An Analysis of Institutional Working Group Reports and their Incorporation into Peer-Reviewed Literature [short paper]
Laura Ridenour

Day 3: Sunday, July 11, 2021 (Convert times to your time zone)

9:00-9:55 AM Pacific Time SESSION 8: Best Paper Award / ISKO-CUS General Assembly GA Assembly Chair: Heather Moulaison
GA Secretary: Christ Holstrom
GA Teller: Wan-Chen Lee
10:00-10:30 AM Pacific Time Interactive Research Coffee Klatch

Discussion session chair: Jane Greenberg
Open Forum: Come and discuss your current research interests with other NASKOers

  • Have you read any good KO books recently?
  • Are you interested in pursuing any research?
  • Come and talk about KO with others!
  • 10:35 AM-12:15 PM Pacific Time SESSION 9 Papers: Models, Mappings, and Meanings in KO

    Session Chair: Gregory Leazer
    To Map or Not to Map: Rethinking Crosswalk Agendas [long paper]
    Jacob Jett, David Dubin, & Bobby Bothmann

    Form as Classification: An Exploration of Musical Form as a Knowledge Organization System [long paper]
    Deborah Lee