Publications

 
 

"Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology in Knowledge Organization: Toward a Classification, Metatheory, and Research Framework." (2008).  In Knowledge Organization. 35(2/3): 102-112.

Preprint available here: Tennis2008KOEpist.pdf


"Scheme Versioning in the Semantic Web."  (2007).  In Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. 43(4/3): 85-104.  Also published as a chapter in a book by Haworth Press.

Preprint available here: available here: Tennis2007CCQ43-34.pdf

Invited Journal Articles

"Is There a New Bibliography?" (2011).  In Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. 49(2): 121-126. Preprint available here: Tennis2011CCQ49-2.pdf


Good, B. M., Tennis, J. T. and Wilkinson, M. W. (2009). "Social tagging in the life sciences: characterizing a new metadata resource for bioinformatics." To BMC Bioinformatics 10(313).  Available: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/313


Good, B. M. and Tennis, J. T. (2009). "Term Based Comparison Metrics for Controlled and Uncontrolled Indexing Languages." For Information Research 14(1).  Available: http://informationr.net/ir/14-1/paper395.html


"Three Creative Tensions in Document Interpretation Theory Set as Evidence of the Need for a Descriptive Informatics."  (2009).  In Knowledge Organization. 36(4):190-199.

Preprint available here: Tennis2009KO32-4.pdf


Tennis, J. T. and Sutton, S. A. (2008). "Extending the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) for Concept Management in Vocabulary Development Applications." In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 59(1): 25-37. 

Preprint available here: TennisSutton2008Jasist59-1.pdf


"Experientialist Epistemology and Classification Theory: Embodied and Dimensional Classification." (2005). In Knowledge Organization. 32(2): 79-92.

Preprint available here: Tennis2005KO32-2.pdf


"Two Axes of Domains for Domain Analysis." (2003).  In Knowledge Organization. 30(3/4): 191-195.

Preprint available here: Tennis2003KO30-3-4.pdf


Journal Articles

"Ranganathan’s Layers of Classification Theory and the FASDA Model of Classification." (2011). Proceedings of the 2011 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization. 

Preprint available here: Tennis2011NASKO.pdf


"Comparative Modeling of Vickery’s Faceted Classification and the Oeuvre of S. R. Ranganathan." (2011).  In Facets of Knowledge Organization: A Tribute to Professor Brian Vickery 1918-2009.

Preprint forthcoming


"Measured Time: Imposing a Temporal Metric to Classificatory Structures."  (2010). In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference for Knowledge Organization. (Rome, Italy).  Advances in Knowledge Organization vol 12. Ergon: Würzburg.

Preprint available here: Tennis2010ISKO.pdf


"Fringe Types and KOS Systematics: Examining the Limits of the Population Perspective of Knowledge Organization Systems." (2009). Advances in Classification Research. Vol. 20. 

Preprint available here: Tennis2009SIGCR.pdf


Tennis, J. T. and Jacob, E. K. "Toward a Theory of Structure in Information Organization Frameworks." (2008).  In Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference for Knowledge Organization.  (Montreal, Quebec August 5-8, 2008). Advances in Knowledge Organization vol. 11. Ergon: Würzburg: 262-268.

Preprint available here: TennisJacob2008ISKO.pdf


Tennis, J. T. and Calzada-Prado, J. "Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Problems and Perspectives for LIS Professionals." (2007).  In IBERSID: Revista de Sistemas de Información y Documentación. (1): 303-311.

Preprint available here: TennisCalzada2007IBERSID.pdf


"The Economic and Aesthetic Axis of Information Organization Frameworks." (2007). In Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization.  (Toronto, Ontario): 112-113. [abstract]

Abstract available here: Tennis2007NASKO.pdf


"Diachronic and Synchronic Indexing: Modeling Conceptual Change in Indexing Languages." (2007).  In Information Sharing in a Fragmented World, Crossing Boundaries. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science/L'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information. (Montreal, Quebec): 1-11. 

Preprint available here: Tennis2007CAIS_ACSI.pdf


"Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing: Fordist Reflexivity and Intertextuality." (2006).  In Advances in Classification Research. vol. 17.  (Austin, Texas). 

Preprint available here: Tennis2006SIGCR.pdf


"Function, Purpose, Predication, and Context of Information Organization Frameworks." (2006). In Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Knowledge Organization. International Society for Knowledge Organization. (Vienna, Austria. July 5-7, 2006). Advances in Knowledge Organization vol 10. Ergon: Würzburg: 303-310.

Preprint available here: Tennis2006ISKO.pdf

 

"Comparative Functional Analysis of Boundary Infrastructures, Library Classification, and Folksonomies." (2006). In Information Science Revisited: Approaches to Innovation Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science/L'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information. (York University, Toronto, Canada). Preprint available here: Tennis2006CAIS_ACSI.pdf


"SKOS and the Ontogenesis of Vocabularies."  (2005). In International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice. (Madrid, Spain: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): 275-278.

Preprint available here: Tennis2005DCMI.pdf


"URIs and Intertextuality: Incumbent Philosophical Commitments in the Development of the Semantic Web." (2004). In Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society: Proceedings of the Eighth International ISKO Conference.  (London, United Kingdom, July 13-16, 2004).  Advances in Knowledge Organization vol. 9.  Würzburg: Ergon: 103-108.

Preprint available here: Tennis2004ISKO.pdf


"Three Spheres of Classification Research: Emergence, Encyclopedism, and Ecology." (2004). In Advances in Classification Research. vol. 13. (Medford, NJ: Information Today for the American Society for Information Science and Technology)

Preprint available here: Tennis2002SIGCR.pdf


"Layers of Meaning: Disentangling Subject Access Interoperability." (2004). In Advances in Classification Research. vol. 12. (Medford, NJ: Information Today for the American Society for Information Science and Technology): 113-122.

Preprint available here: Tennis2001SIGCR.pdf


"Subject Ontogeny: Subject Access through Time and the Dimensionality of Classification." (2002). In Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge across Boundaries: Proceedings of the Seventh International ISKO Conference. (Granada, Spain, July 10-13, 2002).  Advances in Knowledge Organization, vol. 8. Würzburg: Ergon: 54-59.

Preprint available here: Tennis2002ISKO.pdf

Conference Papers

Jones, E. and Tennis, J. T. "Facets of Access: a Typology of Information Dissemination Systems." 2012 iConference. Toronto, Ontario, February 2012.

Poster forthcoming


"Forms, Foundations, and the Ethos of Foremost: Zen Practice, Epistemology, and Ontology in Reflective Knowledge Organization." iSchool Research Fair.  Seattle, Washington, November 2011.

Poster available here: Tennis2011bResearchFair.pdf


"Term Morphologies as Meaningful Typology Characteristics for Indexing Languages." iSchool Research Fair. Seattle, Washington, November 2011.

Poster available here: Tennis2011aResearchFair.pdf


Thornton, K. and Tennis J. T. "Eugenics and Anatomy: Case Study of Change and Stasis in Classificatory Structures."  iSchool Research Fair, December 2010.

Poster available here: ThorntonTennis2010ResearchFair.pdf


"Caveat Fractal: Dissecting The Body of Indexing Theory, Uncovering Complexity, and Moving Toward Performativity." (2009). Information School, University of Washington Research Fair.  Seattle, Washington, November 19, 2009.

Poster available here: Tennis2009ResearchFair.pdf


Good, B.M. and Tennis, J. T. (2008). "Evidence of Term-Structure Differences among Folksonomies and Controlled Indexing Languages."  Annual Meeting for the American Society for Information Science and Technology.  Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008.

Poster narrative available here: GoodTennis2008ASIST.pdf


Tennis, J. T. and Allen, B. P. "A Metadata Thesaurus: Report on the Knowledge Organization of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference Proceedings."  International Society for Knowledge Organization, Eighth International Conference.  London, United Kingdom, July 16-19, 2004. 

Poster available here: TennisAllen2004ISKO.pdf


"Principles of Knowledge Organization: Analysis and Structures in the Networked Environment." Association of Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference.  San Diego, California, January 6-9, 2004. 

Poster available here: Tennis2004-ALISE-poster.pdf


Efthimiadis, E.N. and Mai, J-E. with Alam, T., Bisson, J.E., Detera, E.C., Foit, L.M., and Tennis, J.T.  "MARS (Media Asset Retrieval System): Puget Sound's Digital Archive."  Annual AMIA Conference. Boston, Massachusetts, November 22, 2002. 

Poster available here: 2002_AMIA.pdf


Efthimiadis, E.N. and Mai, J-E. with Alam, T., Bisson, J.E., Detera, E.C., Foit, L.M., and Tennis, J.T.  "Puget Sound’s MARS (Media Asset Retrieval System) Digital Library."  Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Portland, Oregon, July 14, 2002. 

Poster available here: 2002_JCDL.pdf

Posters

Feinberg, M. and Tennis, J. T. (2011). Advances in Classification Research. Vol. 22. (New Orleans, Louisiana, October 12, 2011). Available: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/ojs/index.php/acro/issue/view/835


Arsenault, C. and Tennis, J. T. (eds.). (2008). Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference for Knowledge Organization.  (Montreal, Quebec, August 5-8, 2008). Advances in Knowledge Organization vol 11. Ergon. Würzburg.


Tennis, J. T. (ed.) (2007). Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization Vol. 1. (Toronto, Ontario, June 14-15, 2007).  Vancouver, BC: International Society for Knowledge Organization – North American Chapter: 113 pages.

Available: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/ojs/index.php/nasko/issue/view/865


Furner, J. and Tennis, J. T. (eds.) (2006).  Advances in Classification Research Vol. 17. (Austin, Texas, November 4, 2006).  Vancouver, BC: ASIST SIG/CR.

Available: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/ojs/index.php/acro/issue/view/831


Sutton, S., Greenberg, J., and Tennis, J. T. (eds.). (2003). Dublin Core Conference: Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice – Metadata Research & Applications. (Seattle, Washington, September 28 - October 2, 2003). Syracuse, NY: Information Institute of Syracuse.

Available: http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs/issue/view/26

Collections

"Terminology Cross-Domain Final Report."  InterPARES 2 Research Project.  September, 2006.

Available here: Tennis2006InterPARES.pdf


Gilliland, A., Lindberg, L., McCargar, V., Langmead, A., Lauriault, T., Leahey-Sugimoto, M., Evans, J., Tennis, J. T., and Wang, H.  "Investigating the Roles and Requirements, Manifestations and Management of Metadata in the Creation of Reliable and Preservation of Authentic Electronic Entities Created by Dynamic, Interactive and Experiential Systems: Report On The Work And Findings Of The InterPARES 2 Description Cross Domain Group."  InterPARES 2 Research Project.  December, 2006.

Available here: GillilandEtAl2006InterPARES.pdf


"BC Campus Application Profile and Taxonomy – Recommendations and Next Steps." Report to BCcampus Vancouver, British Columbia, August, 2005


Efthimiadis, E.N. and Mai, J-E. with Alam, T., Bisson, J.E., Detera, E.C., Foit, L.M., and Tennis, J.T.  "Organizing and Representing Media Assets: An Information Science Perspective and Review. A Review of the Literature." Report to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Television Future Fund, July 2002.

Technical Reports

Tennis, J. T., Sutton, S. A., and Hillmann, D. (2006). "The Notion of the ‘Concept Instance’: Problems in Modeling Concept Change in SKOS."  In International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning. 

Preprint available here: TennisSuttonHillmann2006ConceptInstance.pdf


"Versioning Concept Schemes for Persistent Retrieval." (June/July, 2006). In Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 

Available: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-06/tennis.html


"2003 Dublin Core Metadata Conference, Seattle WA: a conference report." (March/April, 2004). In Barrington Report on Advanced Knowledge Organization and Retrieval. 1(1): 18-19.


"6th Annual Open Forum on Metadata Registries - Santa Fe, New Mexico." (2002).  In Knowledge Organization. 29(3/4): 234-235.  A conference report.


"Data Collection for Controlled Vocabulary Interoperability - Dublin Core Audience Element." (2002). In Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 29(2).

Available: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-02/ASISTDecJan.pdf


"A New Sense of Motion: Framing the Idea of the Archive in the New Information Order." (2002). In Proceedings of the New Information Order and the Future of the Archive. (Frow, J ed.).

Slides available here: Tennis2002NewInfo.pdf


"Layered Information Modeling and a Knowledge Organization Paradigm: Inherent Classification and the Design of Interoperable Systems." (2002). In Knowledge Technologies 2002. Conference Proceedings.

Preprint available here: Tennis2002Layered.pdf

Non-refereed Papers

Theory, Culture & Society vol. 23 (2-3), May 2006, p. 1-50. Edited by Mike Featherstone.  In Knowledge Organization 33(4): 216-219, 2006.

Preprint available here: Tennis2006KO33-4.pdf


Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science. 2001. By John M. Budd.  (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press).  In Libraries and Culture 39(1): 107-108, 2004.


Book Reviews

Conceptions of Subject Analysis: A Metatheoretical Investigation. (2005). (University of Washington: Seattle).  Advisor: Allyson Carlyle Committee: Clare Beghtol, Jens-Erik Mai, and Stuart Sutton

Available here: http://tinyurl.com/6u7cabk

Dissertation