Classification (Library Science)

Construção de Linguagens de Indexação: aspectos teóricos

by Alexis Rivier

Trad. from french "Construction des langages d'indexation: aspects théoriques", Documentaliste-Sciences de l'information, 1990

Classification of Islamic literature in Pakistani libraries: A survey

by Khalid Mahmood

Investigating Socio-technical Requirements for an Inclusive Medical Classification

by Fernando Figueira Filho

The Elusive Tale: Leveraging the Study of Information Seeking and Knowledge Organization to Improve Access to and Discovery of Folktales

by Carol Tilley

Co-authored with Kathryn La Barre. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Volume 63, Issue 4, pages 687–701, April 2012

The Folktales and Facets project proposes ways to enhance access to folktales—in written and audiovisual... more The Folktales and Facets project proposes ways to enhance access to folktales—in written and audiovisual formats—through the systematic and rigorous development of user- and task- focused models of information representation. Methods used include cognitive task analysis and facet analysis to better understand the information seeking and use practices of people working with folktales and the intellectual dimensions of the domain. Interviews were conducted with 9 informants, representing scholars, storytellers and teachers who rely on folktales in their professional lives to determine common tasks across user groups. Four tasks were identified, collect, create, instruct, and study. Facet analysis was conducted on the transcripts of these interviews, and a representative set of literature that included subject indexing material and a random stratified set of document surrogates drawn from a collection of folktales – including bibliographic records, introductions, reviews, tables of contents, and bibliographies. Eight facets were identified as most salient for this group of users: agent, association, context, documentation, location, subject, time and viewpoint. Implications include the need for systems designers to devise methods for harvesting and integrating extant contextual material into search and discovery systems, and to take into account user-desired features in the development of enhanced services for digital repositories.

Future of KF Modified In Canadian Law Libraries, The

by F. Tim Knight

Working With KF Modified: Changes and Enhancements

by F. Tim Knight

Classification: deciphering KF Modified

by F. Tim Knight

KF Modified and the Classification of Canadian Common Law

by F. Tim Knight

Published in Canadian Law Library Review, v. 34, no. 5 (2009)

This article was inspired by a previous article written by Vincent DeCaen in an earlier issue of CLLR. It explores... more This article was inspired by a previous article written by Vincent DeCaen in an earlier issue of CLLR. It explores classification, the different approaches taken by KF Modified and LC Class KE, and the role KF Modified has had in organizing collections in Canadian law libraries. It argues that there is no right or wrong way to classify legal resources and suggests that KF Modified can benefit cataloguing workflow and is well suited to both the Canadian and common law library environments.

The Future of KF Modified in Canadian Law Libraries: A Research Report

by F. Tim Knight

Published in Canadian Law Libraries, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 2002

In the summer of 2001 440 surveys were sent to a variety of law libraries in Canada.  183 were completed for a... more In the summer of 2001 440 surveys were sent to a variety of law libraries in Canada.  183 were completed for a response rate of about 42%.  Of these 84 were KF Modified users and 92% of these indicated that they were satisfied with the classification system.  The results demonstrated that the KF Modified user base is quite stable with only 4 libraries reporting that they had switched from KF modified to some other system.  There are 7 libraries currently considering adopting the classification scheme in the future indicating that the number of KF modified users continues to grow.  Generally the findings represent good news for the future of the classification scheme.

UDC as a non-disciplinary classification system for a high-school library

by Philippe Cousson

FRBR and markup analysis: a common denominator for discourse

by Paul Scifleet

A role for classification: the organization of resources on the Internet

by Susan Matveyeva

Matveyeva, Susan J. (2002) A Role for Classification: The Organization of Resources on the Internet. MLA Forum, no.1:2.

The author explores a number of theoretical and practical issues
concerning classification of remote electronic... more The author explores a number of theoretical and practical issues
concerning classification of remote electronic resources. The
necessity to catalog electronic resources has raised questions
regarding including and classifying them in library catalogs.
Analysis of current cataloging decisions indicates that there is no
single standard that has been formed. Some libraries assign
classification numbers to remote electronic resources and others do
not. Theoretical discussions of cataloging librarians show that there
are a number of important issues related to using classification for
the cataloging of electronic materials. The traditional purpose of
classification for locating physical objects on the shelves loses its
function in the case of remote electronic resources. The other
function of classification, categorization, is more useful in the case
of electronic resources, as it promotes the role of classification as a
subject-organizing tool. Attempts at using library classification
schemes in order to organize electronic resources has moved
beyond the realm of libraries and their catalogs. Information
scientists, database developers, and specialists in information
retrieval have explored library classification abilities in organizing
information on the Internet, in order to improve browsing and
subject searching. Several projects have proven that such
classification systems as Dewey Decimal Classification, Universal Decimal Classification, and Library of Congress Classification can be
useful in describing, organizing, and retrieving electronic resources.

Automatic Text Classification of Consumer Health Web Sites Using WordNet

by Patrick Herron

Technological ambiguity & the wassenaar arrangement

by Samuel Evans

International cooperation on export controls for technology is based on three assumptions, that it is possible: to... more International cooperation on export controls for technology is based on three assumptions, that it is possible: to know against whom controls should be directed; to control the international transfer of technology; and to define the items to be controlled. These assumptions paint a very hierarchical framing of one of the central problems in export controls: dual-use technology. This hierarchical framing has been in continual contention with a competitive framing that views the problem as the marketability of technology. This thesis analyses historical and contemporary debates between these two framings of the problem of dual-use technology, focusing on the multilateral Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies. Using a framework of concepts from Science & Technology Studies and the theory of sociocultural viability, I analyse the Arrangement as a classification system, where political, economic, and social debates are codified in the lists of controlled items, which then structure future debates. How a technology is (not) defined, I argue, depends as much on the particular set of social relations in which the technology is enacted as on any tangible aspects the technology may have.
The hierarchical framing is currently hegemonic within Wassenaar, and I show how actors that express this framing use several strategies in resolving anomalies that arise concerning the classification of dual-use technology. These strategies have had mixed success, and I show how they have adequately resolved some cases (e.g. quantum cryptography), while other areas have proved much more difficult (e.g. focal plane arrays and computers). With the development of controls on intangible technology transfers, a third, egalitarian framing is arising, and I argue that initial steps have already been taken to incorporate this framing with the discourse on dual-use technology. However, the rise of this framing also calls into question the fundamental assumption of export controls that technology is excludable, and therefore definable.