Joseph Tennis

Contact

Email: jtennis@uw.edu
Tel: (206) 616-2542
Fax: (206) 616-3152
Office: Mary Gates Hall, 330E

Research The focus of my research is classification theory. This subfield of Information Science is concerned with the evaluation of classification practices and structures. Classification theory critiques these processes and structures in order to improve existing systems and future system design. Theorists can critique these systems from a number of viewpoints. More...

Education
Ph.D. University of Washington (2005) Sp.L.I.S. & M.L.S. Indiana University (2000, 1999) B.A. Lawrence University (1998)

Education

Ph.D., Information Science, University of Washington, 2005
SpLIS, Book History, Indiana University, 2000
MLS, Library Science, Indiana University, 1999
B.A., Religious Studies, Lawrence University , 1998

Research Interest

Teaching

LIS 530 Organization of Information and Resources (Winter 2010)
LIS 600 San Francisco Zen Center Manuscripts Summer Course (Summer 2010)
LIS 539 Special Topics in Organization of Information and Resources (Summer 2010)
LIS 539 Special Topics in Organization of Information and Resources (Summer 2010)
LIS 530 Organization of Information and Resources (Winter 2009)
LIS 536 Indexing and Abstracting (Spring 2009)
INSC 538 Seminar in Information Organization (Autumn 2009)
LIS 530 Organization of Information and Resources (Winter 2008)

Current Projects

No projects are currently listed.

Key Works

"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: 223-228.
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).
Good, B. M. and Tennis, J. T. (2009). "Term Based Comparison Metrics for Controlled and Uncontrolled Indexing Languages." For Information Research 14(1).
"Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing: Fordist Reflexivity and Intertextuality." (2006). In Advances in Classification Research. vol. 17. (Austin, Texas).
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.
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.

Recognition

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Infrastructure Award (2007)
one of ten Junior Early Career Scholars selected as part of the 2007-2008 cohort.
Beta Phi Mu (2000)
Honor Society for Library and Information Science