CALL FOR PAPERS – abstracts due July 15, 2008

19th Annual ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop

Saturday, October 25, 2008 – Columbus, Ohio

TOPIC  OVERVIEW:

This year's workshop will focus classification within the visual and performing arts. Within the arts, the lively arts present unique classification challenges related to the diversity of meanings found within a single “work”.  In addition, these works commonly occur within bounded time and space, and each occurrence can generate a large network of inter-related “documents” and accompanying material which libraries, information centers and archives collect. 

Papers or poster addressing the following points are especially welcome.  What are the:

•              Enduring aspects of classification and subject analysis that are being applied to organization within the arts?  

•              Examples of alternative organization strategies, like social tagging, within the arts?  

•              Challenges for classification within the arts and how does this contrast with other domains?

•              Future opportunities available to us as we attempt to organize 

our world of complex documents and media?

The workshop’s format will provide for a few detailed research talks as well poster presentations and informal chats.  Researchers, practitioners, and students interested in classification, both traditional and more current methods, are encouraged to participate.

FORMAT:

The workshop will run from 8:30 until 4:45 with a box lunch and snacks provided.  The day will include a keynote speaker; two or three panels each with a lead speaker; a poster session with plenty of time for informal discussion with the authors; and the day will end with projections for the future and a summation of the workshops "big ideas".

Abstracts (500-1000 words) due by 7/15/08 to workshop chair.

Full papers (3000-5000 words) due by 9/1/08 to workshop chair.

Workshop Chair:

Joan Lussky, Ph.D.

Catholic University of America

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