Joseph T. Tennis

Selected Papers & Presentations

Journals

  • (forthcoming). Tennis, J. T. and Sutton, S. A. "Extending the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) for Concept Management in Vocabulary Development Applications." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Foundations of Resource Description and Access, 2005-2007  
  • (2007). "Scheme Versioning in the Semantic Web." Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 43(3/4).Online  
  • (2005). "Experientialist Epistemology and Classification Theory: Embodied and Dimensional Classification." Knowledge Organization, 32(2): 79-92. PDF Preprint  
  • (2003). "Two Axes of Domains for Domain Analysis." Knowledge Organization, 30(3/4): 191-195. PDF Preprint  

Conference Papers

  • (2006). "Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing." Advances in Classification Research Available Online  
  • (2006). "Comparative Functional Analysis of Boundary Infrastructures, Library Classification, and Folksonomies." 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). Available Online
  • (2006). "Function, Purpose, Predication, and Context of Information Organization Frameworks." Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Knowledge Organization. International Society for Knowledge Organization 9th International Conference. (Vienna, Austria. Jul, 2006). Advances in Knowledge Organization vol 10. Ergon. Wrzburg. PDF Preprint
  • (2005) "SKOS and the Ontogenesis of Vocabularies." (Eds). Baker, Thomas, Mndez, Eva. 2005 Dublin Core Conference: Vocabularies in Practice (Madrid: Universidad Carlos III De Madrid), 275 - 278. PDF Preprint
  • (2004). "Three Spheres of Classification Research: Emergence, Encyclopedism, and Ecology." (Eds). Mai, J-E, Beghtol, C., Furner, J., Kwasnik, B. Advances in Classification Research. (Information Today Inc., Medford, New Jersey), Vol. 13, 23-29 PDF Preprint
  • (2004). "Layers of Meaning: Disentangling Subject Access Interoperability." (Eds). Efthimiadis, Efthimis. Advances in Classification Research. (Information Today Inc.. Medford, New Jersey), Vol. 12, 113 - 122. PDF Preprint
  • (2004). "URIs and Intertextuality: Incumbent Philosophical Commitments in the Development of the Semantic Web." (Eds). McIlwaine, I. Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society: Proceedings of the Eighth International ISKO Conference. (Ergon Verlag. Würzburg), Vol. 9. 103 - 108. PDF Preprint
  • (2002). "Subject Ontogeny: Subject Access through Time and the Dimensionality of Classification". (Eds). Lpez-Huertas, Mara. Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge across Boundaries: Proceedings of the Seventh International ISKO Conference. (Ergon Verlag. Würzburg), Vol. 8. 54 - 59. PDF Preprint

Dissertation

  • (2005). "Conceptions of Subject Analysis: A Metatheoretical Investigation." (University of Washington). Allyson Carlyle, Supervisor. Abstract in PDF

Presentations

  • "Are there Ontomon?  Looking for types of information organization frameworks and systems." University of Washington Research Conversations.  (Seattle, Washington).  November 2007.
  • "Polis, Third Sector, and Civil Society: Conceptualizing Indexing and Social Tagging in Web 2.0." American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin).  October 2007.
  • "Epistemic Constructs in the Design, Study, and Critique of Knowledge Organization Structures" Information Resources Management Association, International Conference (Vancouver, British Columbia), May 2007. PDF of Slides
  • "Frameworks for Versioning, Merging, and Comparing Classificatory Structures." School of Library, Archival and Information Studies Colloquium Series, The University of British Columbia. (Vancouver, British Columbia), November 2006.
  • "The Notion of the ‘Concept Instance’: Problems in Modeling Concept Change in SKOS." International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning. (Manzanillo, Mexico), October 2006. with Stuart Sutton and Diane Hillmann Outline Available Online
  • "Metadata and Description as seen in the InterPARES 2 Investigations and the Chain of Preservation Model of Electronic Records." International Symposium on Electronic Records. (Singapore City, Singapore), June 2006. [invited]
  • "Metadata and Description: Findings and New Research Trajectories from the InterPARES2 Project. " Canadian Metadata Forum. (Ottawa, Ontario), September 2005.
  • "The Younger Generation of Knowledge Organization Researchers." Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society: the Eighth International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference. (London, United Kingdom), July 2004. [Invited]
  • "Taxonomy of Texts in the Subject Analysis Process." Connections 2004 (Toronto, Canada), May 2004.
  • "A New Sense of Motion: Framing the Idea of the Archive in the New Information Order." New Information Order and the Future of the Archive (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), March 2002.
  • "Layered Information Modeling and a Knowledge Organization Paradigm: Inherent Classification and the Design of Interoperable Systems." Knowledge Technologies Conference (Seattle, Washington), March 2002.
  • "Soul, Subtle Body, Gross Body: Ranganathan's Vedanta Bibliography and his Ontology of the Book." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (Williamsburg, Virginia), July 2001.
  • "Number, Order, and Epistemology in Cassiodorus Senator's Institutiones Book II." Medieval Renaissance Baroque Studies Conference (Miami, Florida), February 2001.