This paper proposes a preliminary classification of knowledge organization research, divided among epistemology, theory, and methodology plus three spheres of research: design, study, and critique. This work is situated in a metatheoretical framework, drawn from sociological thought. Example works are presented along with preliminary classification. The classification is then briefly described as a comparison tool which can be used to demonstrate overlap and divergence in cognate discourses of knowledge organization (such as ontology engineering).

https://faculty.washington.edu/jtennis/Publications_files/Tennis2008KOEpist.pdf

Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology in Knowledge Organization: Toward a Classification, Metatheory, and Research Framework

Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences April 5, 2006 Authors: Diane Harley, Ph.D., Principal Investigator Jonathan Henke, Shannon Lawrence, Ian Miller, Irene Perciali, Ph.D., and David Nasatir, Ph.D. With contributions from Charis Kaskiris and Cara Bautista Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), University of California, Berkeley Funders: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Hewlett-Packard Company, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the California Digital Library (CDL), and the Vice Chancellor of Research, UC Berkeley Principal Investigator: Diane Harley, Ph.D. Center for Studies in Higher Education South Hall Annex, #4650 Berkeley, CA 94720 Project website: http://digitalresourcestudy.berkeley.edu/ © 2005–2006, Center for Studies in Higher Education

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Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences

This study reports on five interdisciplinary case studies that explore academic value systems as they influence publishing behavior and attitudes of University of California, Berkeley faculty. The case studies are based on direct interviews with relevant stakeholders—faculty, advancement reviewers, librarians, and editors—in five fields: chemical engineering, anthropology, law and economics, English-language literature, and biostatistics. The results of the study strongly confirm the vital role of peer review in faculty attitudes and actual publishing behavior. There is much more experimentation, however, with regard to means of in-progress communication, where single means of publication and communication are not fixed so deeply in values and tradition as they are for final, archival publication. We conclude that approaches that try to move faculty and deeply embedded value systems directly toward new forms of archival, final publication are destined largely to failure in the short-term. From our perspective, a more promising route is to (1) examine the needs of scholarly researchers for both final and in-progress communications, and (2) determine how those needs are likely to influence future scenarios in a range of disciplinary areas.

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Scholarly communication: academic values and sustainable models

Use and Users of Digital Resources.

Purpose – With the aim of developing a conceptual framework which aims to facilitate semantic metadata interoperability, this paper explores overarching conceptual issues on how traditional library information organisation schemes such as online public access catalogues (OPACs), taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies on the one hand versus Web 2.0 technologies such as social tagging (folksonomies) can be harnessed to provide users with satisfying experiences.Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews works in relation to current metadata creation, utilisation and interoperability approaches, focusing on how a social constructivist philosophical perspective can be employed to underpin metadata decisions in digital libraries. Articles are retrieved from databases such as EBSCO host and Emerald and online magazines such as D‐Lib and Ariadne. Books, news articles and blog posts that are deemed relevant are also used to support the arguments put forward in this paper.Findings – Current metadata approaches ...

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/files/111171/Towards_a_conceptual_framework_for_user-driven_semantic_metadata_interoperability_in_digital_libraries.pdf

Towards a conceptual framework for user‐driven semantic metadata interoperability in digital libraries: A social constructivist approach

The World Wide Web site tor Cataloging & Classification Quarterly(CCQ) was created to address a serious need-timeli-ness-in communicating the results of research among librarians, while at the same time providing a number of new benefits to enhance the journal's relationship to its readers. Brought online in early 1995, it was the first such Web site for a professional journal in librarianship, and its characteristic method of making abstracts available well in advance of the print version anticipated a practice later employed by journals in a variety of other fields. Historical background to electronic texts is discussed in context with the beginnings of the CCQ Web page, along with providing an orientation to the relevant aspects of the still-evolving World Wide Web. By using the CCQ Web page as an example, an attempt to characterize the current state of electronic journal publishing will be outlined. With the decision early this year by CCQ's publisher, The Haworth Press, Inc., to begin a pilo...

Cataloging & classification quarterly : A Web site for a professional journal in librarianship

Penn State Visual Image User Study

For the past several decades technical services operations have witnessed a steady increase in the complexity of their policies, procedures, and workflows. Thus, there is little doubt that documentation plays a critical role in library technical services. Historically, however, documentation has played a secondary role in library productivity. Because of this, the value of strategically integrating documentation into technical services operations has not been recognized. The purpose of this paper is to characterize the current situation in the use of documentation in library technical services, and in so doing to awaken library administrators to the potential that moving documentation to the online environment possesses for enhancing departmental operations in cataloging and acquisitions. Three digital platforms-Microsoft Word, the World Wide Web, and Folio VIEWS-will be compared and contrasted in order to bring out the various considerations necessary in developing an online environment for docu...

Online Documentation in Library Technical Services

Computer technology is currently undergoing rapid development. The cataloger's workstation will act as an important structuring concept in our implementation of this technology in cataloging departments. As this combination of more powerful computer hardware and software is introduced into cataloging production, a new phase in the transformation of cataloging to a fully electronic environment will take hold. Though they existed prior to the introduction of electronic catalogs, the principles of connectivity and coordination will come to play primary roles in the use of the cataloger's workstation. In looking both at its conceptual foundations (Part I of this essay) and at details of its physical configuration (the focus of Part II, to appear in the next issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly), the essay provides a general overview of the many facets that make up the cataloger's workstation.

The Cataloger's Workstation and the Continuing Transformation of Cataloging

As a powerful and radically new information medium, the World Wide Web has been embraced by libraries, as information centers par excellence, for its potential in effectively addressing patron needs. Because of the Web's rapid growth, librarians and other information professionals are developing a variety of solutions to bring the explosion of Web resources under control. While paradigmatic transformations like that taking place in the information industry today have become a tangible reality, information professionals are recognizing that only through the strategic redefining of the essential functions of libraries-selection, acquisition, organization, and access-will the transformative power of such change be harnessed most effectively. This paper attempts to characterize the conceptual 'playing field' of the current transformations taking place, and in so doing proposes a structural model of the relationship that libraries should develop to Internet-based resources. The tandem concepts of digi...

Roger Brisson

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Cataloging & classification quarterly : A Web site for a professional journal in librarianship

Penn State Visual Image User Study

Online Documentation in Library Technical Services

The Cataloger's Workstation and the Continuing Transformation of Cataloging

The World discovers cataloging : A conceptual introduction to digital libraries, metadata and the implications for library administrations