1st Symposium and Organising meeting [NASKO]

Programme / Publications (Papers were deposited at DLIST)

Thursday 14 June

NASKO

9:30-1:30

Registration

1:30-2:00

Welcome

Brian Cantwell Smith, Dean Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto

Richard P. Smiraglia Long Island University, Chair of NASKO 2007

2:00-3:30

Session 1

Theories of evolution and cultural diffusion: Understanding changes in generating knowledge representations, Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina ? Chapel Hill

 

Exploring Classification as Conversation, David M. Pimentel, Syracuse University

 

Ontology and the Semantic Web, Jane Zhang, Harvard University

 

3:30-4:00

Coffee Break/Poster Session

4:00-5:30

Session 2

Everything New is Old Again: Finding a Home for Knowledge Structures in a Satisficing World, D. Grant Campbell, Michael Brundin, C. Baird, G. Maclean, University of Western Ontario

 

Beyond Retrieval: A Proposal to Expand the Design Space of Classification, Melanie Feinberg, University of Washington

 

Knowledge Strategy and its Influence on Knowledge Organization, Joseph Kasten, Dowling College

 

5:30-6:30

ISKO-NA business meeting

Friday 15 June

NASKO

9:30-10:30

Plenary

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break/Poster Session

11:00-12:30

Session 3

Classifying Marginalized People, Focusing on Natural Disaster Victims, Randy Kemp, University of Washington

 

The Economic and Aesthetic Axis of Information Organization Frameworks, Joseph T. Tennis, University of British Columbia, also published in Knowledge Organization 34(1), [2007]

 

Tagging for Health Information Organisation and Retrieval, Margaret Kipp, University of Western Ontario

 

12:30-1:30

Lunch on your own

1:30-3:00

Session 4

Faceted Navigation and Browsing Features in New OPACs: A More Robust Solution to Problems of Information Seekers?, Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois, also published in Knowledge Organization 34(2), pp. 78-90 [2007]  

Study on the Influence of Vocabularies used for Image Indexing in a Multilingual Retrieval Environment, Élaine Ménard, Université de Montréal, also published in Knowledge Organization 34(2), pp. 91-100 [2007]

 

Adapting Bloom's Taxonomy for Classification of Learning Objects on the PBS.org/teachersource website, John DiMarco, St. John's University

 

3:00-3:30

Coffee Break/Poster Session

3:30-5:00

Session 5

In the Margins : Reflections on Scribbles, Knowledge Organization, and Access, June Abbas SUNY Buffalo, also published in Knowledge Organization 34(2), pp.72-77. [2007]

Performance Works: Continuing to Comprehend Instantiation, Richard P. Smiraglia, Long Island University.

Anticipating New Media: A Faceted Classification of Material Types    Rebecca Green, OCLC Dewey Decimal Classification and Nancy J. Fallgren, University of Maryland

5:00-5:30

Closing