Tagging cultural resources

  • Folksonomies. In Encyclopedia of library and information sciences, ed. Marcia J. Bates, 3rd ed. (2009). [preprint]
  • Twenty tall tales about tagging. Presented at OCLC forum, Los Angeles, CA (September 17, 2009) and at CAM/MCN meeting, Los Angeles, CA (September 18, 2009).
  • [with R. Srinivasan, R. Boast, and K. M. Becvar] Digital museums and diverse cultural knowledges: Moving past the traditional catalog. The Information Society 25 (2009): 265-278.
  • [with R. Srinivasan, R. Boast, and K. M. Becvar] Blobgects: Digital museum catalogs and diverse user communities. Journal of the American Society for Information Society and Technology 60 (2009): 666-678.
  • Ten tall tales about tagging, and a few fancy findings. Presented at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA (October 17, 2008).
  • Tagging research: A survey and agenda. Presented at LACASIS workshop, Los Angeles, CA (February 22, 2008). [slides]
  • User tagging of library resources: Toward a framework for system evaluation. In World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council (Durban, South Africa, August 19-23, 2007).
  • Social classification: Panacea or Pandora? Presented at ASIS&T 2006, Austin, TX (November 4, 2006). [slides]
  • [with M. K. Smith and M. Winget] Collaborative indexing of cultural resources: Some outstanding issues. Presented at Digital Humanities 2006, Paris, France (July 8, 2006). [slides]
  • Subject access to cultural objects: A review of challenges and opportunities. Presented at ALA/ALCTS 2005, Chicago, IL (June 25, 2005). [slides]

Metaphysics of documentation

  • Philosophy and information studies. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 44 (2010): 161-200. [preprint]
  • Philosophy and the information sciences. In Encyclopedia of the library and information sciences, ed. Marcia J. Bates, 3rd ed. (2009). [preprint]
  • Two senses of "work." Presented at VRA 2007, Kansas City, MO (March 29, 2007). [talk | slides]
  • The ontology of works. Presented at ASIS&T 2006, Austin, TX (November 6, 2006). [slides]
  • The ontology of subjects of works. Presented at ASIS&T 2006, Austin, TX (November 5, 2006). [slides]
  • Information studies without information. Library Trends 52 (2004): 427-447.

Epistemology of documentation

Ethics of documentation

  • Interrogating "identity": A philosophical approach to an enduring issue in knowledge organization. Knowledge Organization 36 (2009): 3-16. [preprint]
  • [with A. Gilliland] The humanistic iSchool: A manifesto. Paper submitted to (and rejected by) the 2008 iConference.
  • Dewey deracialized: A critical race-theoretic perspective. Knowledge Organization 34 (2007): 144-168. [preprint]
  • International standards, national traditions: Vocabulary control in archival science. Presented at SAA 2004, Boston, MA (August 6, 2004). [slides]
  • [with A. W. Dunbar] The treatment of topics relating to "mixed race" people in bibliographic classification schemes: A critical race-theoretic approach. Presented at ISKO 2004, London, UK (July 14, 2004). [slides]

History of documentation

Bibliometrics and information retrieval

  • Forty years of the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science: A quantitative analysis, Part I. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 41 (2009): 149-172. [preprint | tables]
  • [with L. G. Zucker, M. R. Darby, R. C. Liu, and H. Ma] Minerva unbound: Knowledge stocks, knowledge flows, and new knowledge production. Research Policy 36 (2007): 850-863. [Preprint available online as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 12669 at http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12669.pdf .]
  • Bibliographic relationships, citation relationships, relevance relationships, and bibliographic classification: An integrative view. Presented at ASIS&T SIG/CR 2002, Philadelphia, PA (November 17, 2002).
  • A unifying model of document relatedness for hybrid search engines. Presented at ISKO 2002, Granada, Spain (July 11, 2002).
  • On recommending. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53 (2002): 747-763.
  • [with C. L. Borgman] Scholarly communication and bibliometrics. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 36 (2002): 3-72.
  • [with D. Ellis and P. Willett] Measuring the degree of similarity between objects in text retrieval systems. Perspectives in Information Management 3 (1993): 128-149.

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