Off the Mark

Late last year I decided to participate in a reading challenge (2007 TBR) that I found at Joy Weese Moll’s blog, Wanderings of an online librarian. I generally don’t do these sorts of things but when I had looked back over 2006 at the hundreds of article I had read I found that I had [...]

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Sunday, 1 Jul
Uta Priss, “Associative and Formal Concepts,” Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, 2002, http://www.upriss.org.uk/papers/icc02.pdf (accessed July 1, 2007).
Cited by Tennis (2005) “Experientialist Epistemology and Classification Theory: Embodied and Dimensional Classification.” Knowledge Organization 32 (2), 2005: 79-92. Read 13-14 June 2007.
Monday, 2 Jul
RDA-related items:

RDA Scope and [...]

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Plenary: Issues in Knowledge Organization Research: An Interactive Panel Discussion. Joe Tennis, moderator.
Tennis’ intro:
Do we all come with the same purpose?
Dow we all come with the same conceptualization of the problem space?

James Turner, Professor, University of Montreal.
Clare Beghtol, Professor, University of Toronto.
Jens-Erik Mai, Professor and Vice Dean, University of Toronto.

James Turner
Initial comments were on papers [...]

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Conference photos here. More touristy photos here [includes some conference attendees]. Everyone’s photos here [which means jennimi and me.]
Rebecca Green has a much better synopsis than I will produce at 025.431: The Dewy Blog.
Plenary: Issues in Knowledge Organization Research: An Interactive Panel Discussion. Joe Tennis, moderator.

James Turner, Professor, University of Montreal.
Clare Beghtol, Professor, University of [...]

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Monday, 18 June
Hjørland, Birger. “Semantics and Knowledge Organization.” ARIST 41 (2007): 367-405.
Cited by Zhang, J. (2007). Ontology and the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization. Vol. 1. Available: http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1897
As much as I need to summarize this for myself I have run out of time, so:
The aim of this chapter is [...]

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Last Wednesday morning I headed out for Toronto, Canada with my advisor, Kathryn La Barre, for the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, June 14-15, 2007.
The conference was Thursday afternoon and all day Friday with approximately 40 people in attendance. Big names, little names, old names, young names, academics (mostly), corporate folks, those in various [...]

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Let me just state for the record: As much as I will miss all my friends who will be at ALA (including the wholesale category I forgot when I was making decisions) and as much as I wish I had been able to accept the offer to be on a panel discussion of a topic [...]

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Possibly another light week due to all-day on campus class (Topic Maps begins) and travel to Toronto for NASKO.
Sunday, 10 Jun
Van de Sompel, Herbert and Oren Beit-Arie. “Generalizing the OpenURL Framework beyond References to Scholarly Works.” D-Lib Magazine 7 (7/8) July/August 2001.
Pepper, Steve. The TAO of Topic Maps: Finding the Way in the Age of [...]

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