North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization

June 15-16, 2023

Online conference

Location

Online conference sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Program

N.B. All times are listed in Eastern Time (ET).

Day 1: Thursday, June 15, 2023 (Convert times to your time zone)

10:00-10:15 AM Eastern Time Welcome & Overview
10:15 - 11:00 AM ET SESSION 1 Papers: KO Foundations

Session Chair: D. Grant Campbell
S.R. Ranganathan's Ontology of the Book: On a Bibliographical Conceptual Model avant la lettre [long paper]
Thomas Dousa

LGBTQ+ Catalog Users: A Brief Survey [long paper]
Karen Snow, Heather Moulaison-Sandy and Brian Dobreski
11:00 - 11:30 AM ET Special Session: KO & Practice

Speaker: Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts
11:30 - 12:00 PM ET Break

12:00 - 1:00 PM ET SESSION 2 Papers: Thesaurus & Taxonomy Construction

Session Chair: Julaine Clunis
Thesaurus Construction for Community-Centered Metadata [long paper]
Julia Bullard, Nigel Town, Sarah Nocente, Aleha McCauley and Heather O'Brien

Diversity and Identity: Categories for OAI Data-Providers in the Open Language Archives Network [long paper]
Hugh Paterson III
1:00 - 1:30 PM ET Interactive Research Coffee Klatch
Session Leader: 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!

1:30 - 2:30 PM ET Doctoral Symposium By Invitation Only

Day 2: Friday, June 16, 2023 (Convert times to your time zone)

12:00-12:30 PM ET Doctoral Symposium – Public Presentation

Understanding the Impact of Tacit Knowledge on Category Formation and Knowledge Organization [doctoral symposium paper]
Carlin Soos

12:30-1:15 PM ET SESSION 3 Papers: KO, Language, & Computation

Session Chair: Hugh Paterson III
Short Paper on Voice and Context: Building a Corpus of Events to Assess Potential Bias in Digital News Headlines [short paper]
Hannah Smith

On the Question of Authorship in Large Language Models (LLMs) [long paper]
Carlin Soos and Levon Haroutunian

1:15-1:45 PM ET Special Session: KO & Ethics

Session Leader: Karen Snow
1:45-2:15 PM ET Break

2:15-3:15 PM ET SESSION 4 Papers: AI & KO

Session Chair: Richard Smiraglia
Repositioning the Base Level of Bibliographic Relationships: or, A Cataloguer, a Post-Modernist and a Chatbot Walk Into a Bar [long paper]
D. Grant Campbell and Alexander Mayhew

Representation, Organization and Discovery in the age of Artificial Intelligence: Consideration of Ethical Principles [long paper]
Lala Hajibayova

3:15 - 4:00 PM ET ISKO-C/US General Assembly, Best Paper Award



4:00 - 4:15 PM ET Break

4:15 - 5:00 PM ET SESSION 5 Papers: KO & LGBTQ+ Identities

Session Chair: Lala Hajibayova
More than Physique or Desire: Feeling Constituting Identity in Homosexual Nomenclature [short paper]
Richard Smiraglia, Fabio Assis Pinho, Daniel Martínez-Ávila and Francisco Arrais Nascimento

From Atomic Elements to Fantastical Machines: The “Concept” in International Classification [long paper]
Richard Smiraglia