Thursday, June 16

8:00-8:45

Registration

8:45-9:00

Opening Session

9:00-10:30

Paper Session 1 - Moderator: Kathryn La Barre

Analysis of metadata schemas for children’s libraries

Jihee Beak, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Hope A. Olson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Soviet classifications and situated knowledges

Chloë Edwards, University of Texas at Austin

Controlled vocabularies and tags: An analysis of research methods

Margaret E. I. Kipp, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Wittgenstein and web facets

Elizabeth Milonas, New York City College of Technology

10:30-11:00

Poster session / Coffee Break [Hosted by Abby Goodrum]

Information organization in online bookstores: a human centered perspective

Justyna Berzowska, University of British Columbia

Blogs, news, home pages, FAQs: How Web genre affects tagging vocabulary?

Lala Hajibayova, Indiana University, Bloomington

Knowing What We Teach: Toward a Taxonomic Model of Learning Objectives and Outcomes Assessment in Knowledge Organization Education

David A. Jank, Long Island University

Tags and the Cyborg Manifesto

Kristin Johannesson, Uppsala University, Sweden

Dimensions and Types of Consumer Vocabulary in Health Information Organization

Soohyung Joo & Yunseon Choi, University of Illinois

Influence of Tagging Systems on User Supplied Tags for Web Resources

Chuttur M. Yasser, Indiana University, Bloomington

11:00-12:30

Paper Session 2 - Moderator: Nancy Williamson

See-also relationships in the Dewey Decimal Classification *

Rebecca Green, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: A Case Study of Social Discovery Systems in Two Canadian Public Libraries

Louise F. Spiteri, Dalhousie University

Teaching bibliographic classification In The 21st Century *

Michèle Hudon, Université de Montréal

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Panel - Moderator: Joseph T. Tennis

Elementary structures: universe of knowledge or universe of concepts?

Charles van den Heuvel , The Huygens Institute in The Hague (The Netherlands)

Thomas M. Dousa, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Richard Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

3:30-4:00

Poster Session/ Coffee Break [Hosted by Abby Goodrum]

4:00-5:30

Paper Session 3 - Moderator: Margaret E. I. Kipp

Knowledge Organization under digital inversion: A theory for cooperative librarian organizing practices for online textual artifacts

Steven L. MacCall, The University of Alabama

A domain-analytic perspective on sexual health in LCSH and RVM

Jill McTavish, The University of Western Ontario

Alexandre Fortier, The University of Western Ontario

Biases in knowledge representation: an analysis of the feminine domain in Brazilian indexing languages

Suellen Oliveira Milani, São Paulo State University - UNESP

José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, São Paulo State University - UNESP

5:30-7:30

ISKO-C/US business meeting

Friday,     June 17

8:00-9:30

Paper Session 4 - Moderator: D. Grant Campbell

Multidimensional classifications: Past and future conceptualizations and visualizations

Charles van den Heuvel, The Huygens Institute in The Hague (The Netherlands)

An examination of interdisciplinary theory between cognitive categorization and knowledge organization

Aaron Loehrlein, The University of British Columbia

Returning the (faceted) gaze: Reflections on representation, meaning and form

Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Towards a typology of classificatory change

David M. Pimentel, Syracuse University

9:30-10:00

Poster Session/ Coffee Break [Hosted by Abby Goodrum]

10:00-11:30

Paper Session 5 - Moderator: Michèle Hudon

Prototype theory: An alternative concept theory for categorizing sex and gender? *

Melodie J. Fox, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Concretes, countries, and processes in Julius O. Kaiser’s Theory of Systematic Indexing: A case study in the definition of general categories

Thomas M. Dousa, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Mapping subjectivity: performing people-centered vocabulary alignment *

Cristina Pattuelli, Pratt Institute

11:30-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:30

Workshop

Instantiation: Metadata models, rationales and realities for Knowledge Organization

Richard P. Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2:30-3:00

Poster Session/ Coffee Break [Hosted by Abby Goodrum]

3:00-4:30

Paper Session 6 - Moderator: Lynne Howarth

Ranganathan’s layers of classification theory and the FASDA model of classification

Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington

The discursive construction of archival science: Conceptual foundations

Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros, São Paulo State University

João Batista Ernesto de Moraes, São Paulo State University

RDA and RDF: A discourse analysis of two standards of resource description

D. Grant Campbell, University of Western Ontario

Contentious categories

Katherine Thornton, University of Washington

4:30

Closing Session