Syllabus
Knowledge Organization
Spring 2007
Jack Andersen
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Day, Date & Time
Friday March 2, 8.30-10.15
Tuesday March 6, 8.30-12.15
Friday March 9, 8.30-12.15
Tuesday March 13, 8.30-12.15
Friday March 16, 8.30-12.15
Tuesday March 20, 10.30-12.15
Friday March 23, 10.30-12.15
Tuesday March 27, 8.30-12.15
Friday March 30, 13-14.45
Tuesday April 3, 10.30-12.15
Friday April 13, 10.30-12.15
Tuesday April 17, 8.30-12.15
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Topic
Genre: how do we use genre in knowledge organization?
Genre: what is genre (anyway) and how does genre organize knowledge?
Genre: how knowledge is organized by people, documents, and activity
Genre: social action and social knowledge
WORKSHOP 2
The organization of scholarly communication and its literatures
Where do classifications come from?
WORKSHOP 3
Literary warrant and other kinds of warrant
Organization of knowledge: between cultural-historical theory and sociohistorical theory
Indexing: policies and practices
WORKSHOP 4
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Readings
Karjalainen, A. et. al. (2000); Wilson & Robinson (1990)
Crowston & Kwasnik (2003); Päivärinta (2001);
Bazerman (2003); Orlikowski & Yates, (1994); Spinuzzi (2004);Yates (1989)
Miller (1984); Berkenkotter & Huckin (1993)
Students present
Andersen (2002) Hjørland et al. (2005)
Miksa (1998); Wiegand (1998)
Students present
Beghtol (1986) + Lifeboat for KO
Hjørland (2002) Andersen & Skouvig (2006)
Andersen (2005) Frohmann (1990) Saauperl (2005)
Students present
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Andersen, J. (2002). The Role of Subject Literature in Scholarly Communication: An Interpretation Based on Social Epistemology. In: Journal of Documentation, Vol. 58, No 4, pp. 463-481
Andersen, J. (2005). Information Criticism: where is it? Progressive Librarian, no. 25, pp. 12-22 http://www.libr.org/PL/25_Andersen.html
Andersen, J. & Skouvig, L. (2006). Knowledge Organization: A Sociohistorical Analysis and Critique. Library Quarterly, vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 300-322
Bazerman, C. (2003). Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems: How Texts Organize Activity and People I: What Texts Do and How they Do It. Bazerman C. og P. Prior (red.). Erlbaum.
Beghtol, C. (1986). Semantic validity: Concepts of warrant in bibliographic classification systems. Library Resources & Technical Services, 109-125
Berkenkotter, C. & Huckin, T. (1993). Rethinking Genre From a Sociocognitive Perspective. Written Communication, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 475-509
Crowston, K. & Kwasnik, B. (2003). Can document-genre metadata improve information access to large digital collections? Library Trends http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/libtrends03.pdf
Frohmann, B. (1990). Rules of indexing: a critique of mentalism in information retrieval theory. Journal of Documentation, 46(2), pp. 81-101
Hjørland, B. (2002). Principia Informatica. Foundational Theory of Information and Principles of Information Services. IN: Emerging Frameworks and Methods. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4). Ed. By Harry Bruce, Raya Fidel, Peter Ingwersen, and Pertti Vakkari. Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA: Libraries Unlimited. (Pp. 109-121). (Manuscript available at: http://www.db.dk/bh/Core%20Concepts%20in%20LIS/articles%20a-z/principia_informatica.htm)
Hjørland, B.; Fjordback Søndergaard, T. & Andersen, J. (2005). UNISIST Model and Knowledge Domains. In: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. New York: Marcel Dekker. Pp. 1-14
Hjørland, B. & Kyllesbech Nielsen, L. (2001). Subject Access Points in Electronic Retrieval. Annual Review of Information Science and technology, 35, 249-298. http://www.db.dk/bh/Subject%20access%20points.pdf
Karjalainen, A. et. al. (2000). Genre-Based Metadata for Enterprise Document Management. Proceedings of the 33 th Hawai’ian Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui 4-7 January 2000 http://www.jyu.fi/~ankarjal/HICSS2000.pdf
Miksa, F. (1998). The DDC, the Universe of Knowledge, and the the Post-Modern Library. Albany, NY: Forest Press
Miller, C. R. (1984). Genre as Social Action. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 70, pp. 151-167 (Also published in A. Freedman & P. Medway (Eds.). Genre and the New Rhetoric, pp. 23-42. 1994. London: Taylor & Francis)
Orlikowski, W & Yates, J. (1994). Genre repertoire: The structuring of communicative practice in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 39, pp. 547-574
Päivärinta, T. (2001). The concept of genre within the critical approach to information systems development. Information and Organization, 11, pp. 207–234
Sâauperl, A. (2005). Subject cataloging process of Slovenian and American catalogers. Journal of Documentation, Vol. 61 No. 6, pp. 713-734. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewPDF.jsp?Filename=html/Output/Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/2780610602.pdf
Spinuzzi, C. (2003). Introduction: Tyrants, Heroes, and Victims in Information Design, pp. 1-23. In: Tracing Genres through Organizations. A Sociocultural Approach to Information Design. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262194910chap1.pdf
Spinuzzi, C. (2004). Describing Assemblages: Genre Sets, Systems, Repertoires, and Ecologies. Computer Writing and Research Lab. White Paper Series: #040505-2 http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/files/040505-2.pdf
Wiegand, W. A. (1998). The "Amherst method". The origins of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Libraries & Culture, 33(2), 175-194
(Available at: http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~landc/fulltext/LandC_33_2_Wiegand.pdf
Wilson, P. & Robinson, N. (1990). Form Subdivisions and Genre. Library Resources and Technical Services, 34(1), pp. 36-43
Yates, J. (1989). Control through communication: the rise of system in American management. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (chapter 3)