Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between different
mechanisms for integrating national archival resources, leading to the development of a …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of warrant in daily classification
design in general and in negotiating disparate classification goals in particular …

While migrant workers play an important role in maintaining the Canadian work force, unlike
permanent residents and Canadian citizens, they are permitted to work in Canada only for …

Traditional knowledge organization approaches struggle to make large user-generated
collections navigable, especially when these collections are quickly growing, in which …

Faceted navigation is already a standard feature of contemporary Online Public Access
Catalogs (OPACs). The article aims to indicate practices in this area and new affordances …

Purpose This chapter offers a re-description of knowledge organization in light of genre and
activity theory. Knowledge organization needs a new description in order to account for …

This paper argues that a new approach to classification best supports and respects social
diversity. We should want a classification that facilitates communication both within groups …

In this paper, we describe the Critical Catalog, a grant-funded research through design
project intended to investigate metadata elements, values, and organizational structures …

Tagging practices on online platforms prioritize descriptive elements that contribute to
information discovery. As a secondary tagging practice, commentary tags expand the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the “race report” as a document genre in the
serious-leisure pursuit of ultrarunning. Despite the sport's largely non-documental nature …