Date

Theme

Topic

Readings

Week 5

Febr. 3

10.30 - 12.15

Intro

Functions of KO in libraries and other information systems

Broughton, Hansson, Hjørland and López-Huertas (2005, 1-3);  

Jaenecke (1994); Kiel (1994).;

+ Lifeboat for KO

Week 6

Febr. 7

10.30 - 12.15

I a

Information, knowledge, documents, works, genres, concepts etc. as the units being organized

Hjørland (2004a+c); Smiraglia (2001, 1-13 + 121-133)

+ Lifeboat for KO

 Notes:3_UNITS in KO

13.00 – 14.45

I a

Subject access points

(document composition and genres)

Hjørland & Kyllesbech Nielsen, 2001

+ Lifeboat for KO

Febr.10

8.30-10.15

I b

Classifications, thesauri, hypertext, ontologies.

Hodge (2000 kap. 1); Hjørland (2006 in press, pp. x-y)

+ Lifeboat for KO

10.30-12.15

I c

"Traditional approaches" (or  approaches behind "enumerative systems" , including both "universal" systems, and "special classifica  tions", "discipline oriented systems", "entity oriented classifications", "one-dimensional", and "many-dimensional" schemes, more "intellectual" kinds like the LCC and more "management-oriented" kinds like the DDC).

Foskett  (1991); Miksa (1998); Wiegand (1998); NLM classification.

+ Lifeboat for KO

Week 7

Febr.14

10.30-12.15

I c

User oriented and cognitive approaches

Facet-analytic approaches

Andersen (2004, 139-144); Dahlberg (1992, 125 + 145 ); Frohmann (1992); Neelameghan et al (1992)

+ Lifeboat for KO

Mills (2004); Xiao (1994).

+ Lifeboat for KO

13.00-14.45

I c

Challenges from IR (& Internet search enginees)

Bibliometric approaches to KO

Ellis (1996, Chapter 1, pp.1-22); Sparck Jones (2005); Saeed & Chaudry (2001)

Schneider & Borlund (2005)

+ Lifeboat for KO

Suppl.:

Schneider & Borlund (2004); Börner, Chen & Boyack (2003)

Febr.17

10.30-12.15

I c

Domain oriented approaches

Hjørland, (2004b).

+ Epistemological lifeboat

Week 8

Febr.21

9.30-ca. 14.45

Workshop 1

Febr. 24

8.30 – 10.15

I d

"Positivist" vs. "pragmatist" theory of KO

Hjørland & Nissen Pedersen (2005); Sparck Jones (2005).

+ Lifeboat for KO

10.30 – 12.15

I d

Concept theory

Semantics & semantic relations

Smith et al. (2005)

Hjørland (2006)

+ Lifeboat for KO

Week 9

Febr.28

10.30 – 12.15

I d

Literary warrant and other kinds of warrant (The empirical basis for KO)

Beghtol (1986)

+ Lifeboat for KO

13.00-14.45

I d

Language theory NLP

Liddy (2003)

+ Lifeboat for KO

March 3

8.30-10.15

I d

Cultural-historical theory of information and knowledge

Hjørland (2002)

10.30-12.15

I d

Discourses & disciplines

Terminology-LSP

Dogan (2001)

+ Epistemological lifeboat

Temmerman (1997).

+ Epistemological lifeboat

Week 10

March 7

10.30-12.15

I d

UNISIST model

Hjørland et al. (2005)

13.00-14.45

I e

Arts & humanities

Ørom (2003)

+Epistemological lifeboat

March 10

8.30 – 10.30

I e

Social sciences

Wallerstein (1996, 1-69)

+Epistemological lifeboat

10.30 – 12.15

1 e

Biology & Medicine

Ereshefsky (2000, pp. 1-49); Nelson et al. (2001)

+Epistemological lifeboat

Suppl.:

Cohen, Starvi & Hersh (2004)

Week 11

 March 14

9.30 – ca. 14.45

Workshop 2