Sunday, 25 Mar 2007
Schmitz-Esser, Winfried. “Language of general communication and concept compatibility.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996. 11-22.
This book is very difficult to get a hold of. I could have sworn that I had blogged about receiving this book from the Library of Congress back in January, but I am unable to find any such post. I did post photos on flickr, though [1 2 3]. I had requested it via ILL in October and got it in late Jan. There are only two copies in WorldCat and only one in Open WorldCat. LCs is in both and there is a reference copy at Baker & Taylor. Surprising that I actually got it; even months later.
This was also the first book that I ever had to sign for from circulation. Kind of odd, but I was just happy to have the book in hand. My advisor didn’t even know it existed, so I shared it with her for the short period that I had it.
Friday I had to sign for a second book. This one is from Cornell University, and while there are few copies of it [9], too, I think they’re just being uppity. I asked the clerk at Circ if this was something new or if I just managed to ask for odd books and she happily concurred that it was just me.
Riesthuis, Gerhard J.A. “Theory of compatibility of information languages.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996. 23-31.
Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read:
George Herbert, “Love”
Andrew Marvell , “To His Coy Mistress”
Monday, 25 Mar 2007
Dahlberg, Ingetraut. “The Compatibility guidelines — A re-evaluation.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996. 32-45.
Sacchanand, Chutima. “Workplace learning for information professionals in a changing information environment.” Proceedings IFLA Council and General Conference (66th : 2000 : Jerusalem), Jerusalem (Israel). [from E-LIS]
Baca, Murtha. “Practical issues in applying metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies to cultural heritage information.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 36 (3/4), 2003: 47-55.
For Representation & Organization. Very basic article, but a decent overview. I have really got to get off my rear and start writing if this is the kind of stuff that gets published. It’s not that it’s bad, because it isn’t. It’s just so very basic. Is there really a need for this kind of article, especially in this journal?
[Update: I asked my fellow students in RO Wednesday morning about their feelings about this article. Most agreed that at this point in their education it was pretty useless, but that it would make a most excellent 501 article (one of our 2 required courses). I wholeheartedly agree with that.]
Yee, Ka-Ping, Kirsten Swearingen, Kevin Li, and Marti Hearst. “Faceted metadata for image search and browsing.” Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. Fort Lauderdale, FL: ACM Press, 2003: 401-408 [Portal] [pdf]
For Representation & Organization.
Tuesday, 27 Mar 2007
Jordan. J. and T. Hickey. “Metadata trends.” In Chen, C., ed. Global digital library development in the new millennium : fertile ground for distributed cross-disciplinary collaboration. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2001. 115-120.
Park, Taemin Kim. “Library education in information organization and access of networked resources.” Extended abstract. Same source as above. 525-526.
Cruz, José Manuel Barrueco and Thomas Krikel. (2003) “Subject description in the Academic Metadata Format.” In Proceedings VI Congreso del Capítulo Español de ISKO, Salamanca (Spain). [pdf at E-LIS]
White, Bruce and Rae Gendall. (2005) “Barriers to the use of digital information by university researchers.” In Proceedings Educause Australasia 2005, Auckland, New Zealand. [pdf at E-LIS]
This short article gives a good overview of the issues that have arisen for faculty and researchers due to the proliferation of electronic resources and tools. Most bibliographic instruction has focused on students, while the people who seriously need to understand the interaction and use of these tools are basically ignored. What is the impact on research thanks to this state of affairs?
Soergel, Dagobert. “Data models for an integrated thesaurus database.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996.47-57.
Wednesday – Thursday, 28 – 29 Mar 2007
Hillman, Diane E., Stuart A. Sutton, Jon Phipps and Ryan Laundry. (2006) “A metadata registry for vocabularies up: The NSDL Registry Project.” Submitted to Dublin Core 2006 Conference. [pdf at arxiv]
Read for Metadata Roundtable 28 March 2007.
Thursday, 29 Mar 2007
Muraszkiewicz, M., H. Rybinski and W. Struk. “Software problems of merging multilingual thesauri.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996: 11-22.
Friday, 30 Mar 2007
Gradmann, Stefan. “rdfs:frbr—Towards and implementation model for library catalogs using Semantic Web technology.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 39 (3/4), 2005: 63-75. [pdf at E-LIS]
Chmielewska-Gorczyca, Ewa. “Compatibility of indexing tools in multidatabase environment.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996: 68-75.
Saturday, 31 Mar 2007
Perkins, Jody. “Marcia Zeng, PhD: From indexing to knowledge organization systems, one woman’s journey across the globe and into the future of Library and Information Science.” Journal of Internet Cataloging 7 (2), 2004: 9-18. doi:10.1300/J141v07n02_03
Stumbled over this interview while looking for something else. Found it very interesting as I have been reading several articles by Dr. Zeng recently, and she is the current chair of the ASIST Standards Committee that I serve on.
Negrini, Giliola. “Towards structural compatibility between concept systems.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996: 76-87.
Sosinska-Kalata, Barbara. “The Universal Decimal Classification as an international standard for knowledge organization in bibliographic databases and library catalogues.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996: 143-151.
Dahlberg, Ingetraut. “Philosophical foundations of conceptual ordering systems.” Advances in Knowledge Organization, Vol. 3 (1991): Documentary languages and databases. Papers from the Rome Conference Dec. 3-4, 1990. Frankfurt: Indeks Verlag, 1991: 103-119.
Olson, Hope A. “Reading “Primitive Classification” and misreading cultures: The metaphysics of social and logical classification.” Advances in Knowledge Organization, Vol. 7 (2000): Dynamism and stability in knowledge organization. Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO Conference 10-13 July 2000, Toronto, Canada. Ergon Verlag: 3-9.
Probably the last Hope Olson I will read. I’m tired of wasting 95% of the time doing so. And the 5% that isn’t a waste I generally already know. So maybe it really is a complete waste for me. I think she, at least, summed it up pretty well for me in these 2 sentences if one substitutes “Olson’s work” for Primitive Classification and “Olson” for “Durkheim and Mauss”:
Having found these significant flaws in Primitive Classification it seems that its study should simply be discouraged. However, Durkheim and Mauss also offer some insights that point toward ways of moderating the culturally specific nature of classification (7).
So, there is value in Hope Olson’s work, at least probably for others. For me, not so much. I wish that were not the case. I was hoping for a lucid and engaging voice of critique of our systems of organization.
I had started a separate post about the Olson things I read, but I don’t know if it’ll ever get finished. I really would like to finish it, but with very limited time lately it certainly is nowhere near the top of my priorities.
Beghtol, Clare. “A Whole, its kinds, and its parts.” Advances in Knowledge Organization, Vol. 7 (2000): Dynamism and stability in knowledge organization. Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO Conference 10-13 July 2000, Toronto, Canada. Ergon Verlag: 313-319.
3 responses so far ↓
1 jennimi // Apr 1, 2007 at 4:05 pm
“I was hoping for a lucid and engaging voice of critique of our systems of organization.” – re. Olson
Can you tell me who has done a better job of it than she? My professor pointed us to her for this, and at the time we couldn’t find too many others in our field who were talking about this stuff the way she was (“unintentional subjectivity” was a refreshing idea for me.. all too often we beat people down for existing in and reacting based upon their world views).
Maybe, it’s time for you to get to writin’ for awhile. Hee.
2 Mark // Apr 1, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Unfortunately, no I cannot. There aren’t many people who can or will talk about these issues. And they need to be talked about!!
My problem is mostly with the method she used in her book, although in most of her articles she seems pretty conflicted and/or confused, also.
I promise I’ll finish my post critiquing what I have read, but it probably will be no sooner than early May. I basically have 4, perhaps 5, weeks to do some fairly serious work on some complex topics, one of which I have to present an open presentation on and it turns out it is a topic that many of our faculty and working librarians have recently discovered they are interested in and need to know more about.
Good opportunity for me, I guess, but also need to have my ducks in a row for it.
So, I will get to the writing, just not immediately.
Well, not this topic anyway.
Let me reiterate though, that I think Hope Olson has done some important work and that many may (and should) find value in it! But when one looks a bit closer than the take away message one can see cracks and, in the case of the book, a completely disingenuous method. And that, unfortunately, casts a pall over the message, which is a complete shame.
3 jennimi // Apr 3, 2007 at 7:15 am
Mark, good point about methodology that can be applied to anything. Had June and I to do it over again, I think we’d have done some things differently with the tagging poster. But that’s the beauty of it… live and learn, DO and learn. I keep wondering about peer-review here. Shouldn’t Olson’s editor(s) have given her feedback, too?
Good luck on semester and I look forward to whatever you post as always!