North
American Symposium on Knowledge Organization
June
13-14, 2019
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Location:
Pre-NASKO Events
| Wednesday, June 12, 2019 | |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Metadata Mixer—Metadata Research Center @ Drexel University, End of Academic Year gathering of metadata and KO researchers (Not an official NASKO event, but open to any early attendees), see: Location: 3675 Market Street, University City Science Center, Dean’s conference, Room is #1039 (10th floor) |
| 5:00-6:00 P M | Happy Hour Get Together, Club Quarters, 1628 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 |
NASKO Conference
| Thursday, June 13, 2019 | ||
| 8:30 AM on | Registration | Location: 3675 Market Street, University City Science Center, Room 1052 (10th Floor) |
| 9:00-9:45 | Opening Remarks and Keynote | Welcome from NASKO Conference Co-Chairs Keynote: An Evolving Understanding of Knowledge Organization, Barbara Kwaśnik, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University |
| 9:45-10:45 | SESSION 1: Representing Visual Culture in Knowledge Organization | 1. Warrant Revealed and an Institutional Response: The AAT and Graffiti Art Ann Graf 2. Casta Paintings and Knowledge Organization in Colonial Mexico Katherine Morrison 3. Side by Side: The Use of Multiple Subject Languages in Capturing Shifting Contexts around Historical Collections Brian Dobreski, Jian Qin & Melissa Resnick |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | SESSION 2: Perspectives on the Knowledge Organization Community | 4. Mapping the KO Community Heather Moulaison Sandy & Andrew Dillon 5. Ethics for Contingent Classifications: Rorty’s Pragmatic Ethics and Postmodern Knowledge Organization Elliot Hauser & Joseph Tennis 6. Observing trajectories of KOSs Across Space and Time: The DANS KOS Observatory (KOSo) Gerard Coen, Richard P. Smiraglia, Peter Doorn & Andrea Scharnhorst |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:30 | SESSION 3: KO and Global Issues | 7. Cultural Biases in Knowledge Organization Systems: A Discussion Regarding International University Rankings José Guimarães Grant Campbell, Suellen Oliveira Milani & Helber Holland 8. Exploring Geopolitical Realities through Taxonomies: The Case of Taiwan Yi-Yun Cheng & Bertram Ludaescher 9. Cataloging Practices Through an Ethnographic Lens: Workarounds, Disagreements, and Manifestations of Culture Wan-Chen Lee |
| 2:30-3:15 | Poster session/Break | |
| 3:15-4:00 | Welcome Remarks: Jane Greenberg, Drexel Brief Comment RE: Doctoral Symposium: Jane Greenberg & Barbara Kwaśnik Special Presentation: Howard White, Drexel |
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| 4:00-5:00 | SESSION 4: Current Interpretations of Earlier KO Theorists | 10.The Contribution of James Duff Brown to the Analytic-Synthetic Method: Comparisons with Otlet, Kaiser, and Ranganathan Rodrigo De Sales, Daniel Martínez-Ávila & José Augusto Chaves Guimarães 11. Metatheoretical Restoration: Modeling Ranganathan’s Dynamic Theory of Classification Joseph Tennis 12.Intellection and Intuition: On the Epistemology of S.R. Ranganathan Thomas M. Dousa |
| Friday, June 14 | ||
| 8:30 AM on | Registration | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Doctoral Symposium (the first 20 minutes are closed, the remainder of the session is open to all NASKO attendees) | 9:00—9:20: Doc. student/mentor individual meeting (pre-scheduled) OPEN SESSION ALL NASKO ATTENDEES WELCOME and ENCOURAGED TO JOIN 9:20—9:40: 1-Minute Madness. Audience joins the symposium. Mentors introduce the students; then students complete the picture. 9:40—10:10: “Dissertation Doctor” Students address the audience with questions about their work. 10:10—10:30: Brainstorming about how the students' work fits into KO in general and also into analogous fields. |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | SESSION 5: Automatic Methods, Computation, and Modelsl | 13. Optimizing Aboutness for Automatically Indexing Full Text 19th-Century Encyclopedia Britannica Entries Sam Grabus, Jane Greenberg, Peter Logan & Joan Boone 14.Public Knowledge, Private Ignorance, and the Problem of Algorithms Robert Montoya & Gregory Leazer 15. Moving Towards an Agent-Based Model for Subject Analysis Chris Holstrom |
| 12:00-1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:30 | SESSION 6: Epistemology, Meaning, and Warrant in KO | 16. The Standpoint Practitioner warrant: An Actionable Antiracist Foundation for Addressing and Mitigating the Contradiction Between Professed and Actual Value Definitions in the Practice of Knowledge Organization Deborah Maron 17.Episemantics: Aboutness as Aroundness Elliot Hauser & Joseph Tennis 18.Ways of Being and Ways of Knowing: Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology and Knowledge Organization Preston Salisbury |
| 2:30-3:00 | SESSION 7: Data Management and Scholarly Communications | 19. Facet Analysis and Topic Modeling of an Emerging Domain: Research Data Management and Data Curation Heather Moulaison Sandy, Heather Froehlich, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale & Denice Adkins 20. Ontology as a Service: Exploring HIVE Technology for Extending Clarivate Services Jane Greenberg, Liz Jenkins, and Megan Force |
| 3:00-3:30 | Presentation of Best Paper Awards Break |
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| 3:30-4:30 | ISKO-C/US General Assembly (with Snacks) | |
| 4:30-5:30 | Open Educators Forum | |