Affiliate Positions

  • Affiliate Member, Archives, Libraries, and Social Justice, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
  • Adjunct Professor, Linguistics Department, University of Washington
  • Textual Studies Faculty, University of Washington
  • Associate, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia
  • Affiliate Member, Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives, University of British Columbia

Specializations

  • Classification Theory
  • Information Provenance and Versioning
  • Comparative Metadata Analysis

Courses

  • LIS 539 - Metadata Design
  • LIS 598 - Special Topics In Information And Library Science

Biography

Joseph T. Tennis is a Professor at the University of Washington Information School. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics, as a member of the Museology Interdisciplinary Faculty Group, and as a member of the Textual Studies faculty at the University of Washington. His research centers on classification theory and is primarily concerned with examining how classification systems change over time, how diverse design requirements are invoked by different communities, and how these systems can interoperate in a web environment. He is increasingly interested in the ethics of information organization, and novel ways to evaluate structures in diverse and varied work practice contexts and discourses. He gave the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment & Ranganathan Memorial Lectures in 2017.

Education

  • Ph D, Information Science, University of Washington, 2005
  • SpLIS, Book History, Indiana University, 2000
  • MLIS, Indiana University, 1999
  • BA, Lawrence University, 1998

Awards

  • Best Paper Award - North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, 2019
  • Invited Symposium Participant - UCLA, 2017
  • Invited Professor - Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3, 2016
  • Best Paper in the Theory, Methodologies, Preservation and Standards Track - Digital Cultural Heritage 2015, 2015
  • Coorientador, Menção Honrosa do Prêmio Capes de Tese 2014 da área de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas I - State University of São Paulo, 2014
  • Nominated for PROF Award - University of Washington Information School, 2014
  • ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award - Association for Library and Information Science Education, 2012
  • Best Poster Award - iConference 2012, 2012
  • Conferencier for the Second Milwaukee Ethics of Information Organization Conference - School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2012
  • Nominated for PROF Award - University of Washington Information School, 2012
  • Visiting Scholar - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, 2012
  • Visiting Scholar - São Paulo State Research Foundation, 2011
  • Nominated for PROF Award - University of Washington Information School, 2010
  • Beta Phi Mu - Indiana University, 2000

Consulting and Other Projects

  • Artefactual Systems, British Columbia
  • League of Comics Librarians, Seattle

Memberships

  • American Society for Information Science & Technology, Classification Research Special Interest Group
  • American Society for Information Science & Technology, History and Foundations of Information Science Special Interest Group
  • International Association of Ontology and its Applications
  • International Society for Knowledge Organization
  • Beta Phi Mu

Publications and Contributions

  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    A concepção de epistemologia da organização do conhecimento: The conception of epistemology of knowledge organization (2021)
    Palabra Clave, 10(2) Authors: P.C. Araújo, J.A.C. Guimarães, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Short Paper
    Studying Subject Ontogeny at Scale in a Polyhierarchical Indexing Language (2021)
    iConference 2021: Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue Authors: Chris Holstrom, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Workshop Paper
    Before and After: Artifacts of Temporality in Knowledge Organization Systems (2020)
    About Time: Information through the Lens of Time and Temporality, iConference 2020 (Suspended due to COVID-19) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Questions, Advice, Explanations, and Humor: A Qualitative Study of Social Tagging on MetaFilter (2020)
    Advances in Knowledge Organization, Proceedings of the 16th International ISKO Conference, 17(Unknown Issue) Authors: Christopher Holstrom, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Visibility, Identity, and Personal Expression: Qualitative Case Studies of Social Tagging on MetaFilter (2020)
    2020 Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO '20) Authors: Chris Holstrom, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Metadata Standard
    Dublin Core Metadata Element Set ISO Standard 15836-2 (2019)
    Authors: Tom Baker, Joseph T. Tennis, Antoine Isaac, Bruce d'Arcus, Dan Brickley, Jana Hentschke, joachim Neubert, Karen Coyle, Kai Eckert, Osma Suominen, Phil Barker, Sarah Hartmann, Stefanie Ruehle, Stuart Sutton, Valentine Charles
  • Conference Paper
    Episemantics: Aboutness as Aroundness (2019)
    Proceedings from North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, 7(Unknown Issue), pp. 27-34 Authors: Elliot Hauser , Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Episemantics: Aboutness as Aroundness (2019)
    Knowledge Organization, 46(8), pp. 590-595 Authors: Elliot Hauser , Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Ethics for Contingent Classifications: Rorty’s Pragmatic Ethics and Postmodern Knowledge Organization (2019)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, 7(Unknown Issue), pp. 112-119 Authors: Elliot Hauser , Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Four Orders of Classification Theory and Their Implications (2019)
    Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 53(8), pp. 702-710 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Hierarchy and the Foundations of Classification: The Inspection of its Ontological Status and Its Role in Ethics (2019)
    ISKO Low Countries Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Intellectual Control (2019)
    Trusting Records in the Cloud, pp. 155–177 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Metatheoretical Restoration: Modeling Ranganathan’s Dynamic Theory of Classification (2019)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Ethos of Care: A Festschrift for Dr. Allyson Carlyle on the Occasion of her Retirement (2018)
    Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 56(8), pp. 663-664 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Foundations and Moving Forward: The Horizons and the Future of Research in Knowledge Organization (2018)
    Tendências atuais e perspetivas futuras em Organização do Conhecimento: Atas do III Congresso ISKO Espanha e Portugal/XIII Congresso ISKO Espanha, pp. 15-19 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Influence of metatheoretical research on knowledge organization (2018)
    Advances in Knowledge Organization, Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age. Proceedings of the 15th International ISKO Conference, 16(Unknown Issue), pp. 273-281, ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-95650-420-4 Authors: Paula Carina de Araújo, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Intellectual History, History of Ideas, and Subject Ontogeny (2018)
    Advances in Knowledge Organization, Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age. Proceedings of the 15th International ISKO Conference, 16(Unknown Issue), pp. 308-313, ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-95650-420-4 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Technical Report
    NA16 Metadata: Mutatis mutandi – Design Requirements for Authenticity in the Cloud and Across Contexts (2018)
    InterPARES Research Project Authors: Joseph T. Tennis, C Rogers, K Timms, S Owens, L Rowledge
  • Conference Paper
    Solid Foundations and some secondary assumptions in the design of bibliographic metadata: toward a typology of complementary uses of metadata (2018)
    Advances in Knowledge Organization, Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age. Proceedings of the 15th International ISKO Conference, 16(Unknown Issue), pp. 450-457, ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-95650-420-4 Authors: Athena Salaba, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    A Knowledge Organization Platform: Integrating SKOS and PROV for Ontogenic Analysis (2017)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization Authors: Thomas Johnson, Xiaoyu Diana Qu, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    A Knowledge Organization System Observatory: First Steps and Functional Requirements (2017)
    2017 iSchool Research Fair Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Conceptual Analysis and Scheme Change: Assumptions and Research Design Decisions (2017)
    2017 iSchool Research Fair Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Metadata Standard
  • Conference Paper
    Facets and Change: Design Requirements for Analytio-Synthetic Schemes in Light of Subject Ontogeny Research (2017)
    Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users: Proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2017, pp. 163-169 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Metatheory and Knowledge Organization (2017)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, 6(Unknown Issue), pp. 173-181 Authors: Paula Carina de Araújo, Joseph T. Tennis, J A C Guimarães
  • Conference Poster
    Methodological Constructs in Descriptive Informatics and Framework Analysis (2017)
    2017 iSchool Research Fair Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Never Facets Alone: The Evolving Thought and Persistent Problems in Ranganathan’s Theories of Classification (2017)
    Dimensions of Knowledge: Facets for Knowledge Organization Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Ontogeny and Conceptual Geometry: Following Gärdenfors to Create an Analytics for Conceptual Analysis and Change (2017)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Perspective, Voice, Reference, and Warrant: A Sample of Ameliorations to the Multi-Perspective Design Requirement and Some Arguments Against It (2017)
    Advances in Classification Research, 27(Unknown Issue) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    The Autism Prism: A Domain Analysis Paper Examining Neurodiversity (2017)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization Authors: Annuska Zolyomi, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    The concept of epistemology in knowledge organization: O conceito de epistemologia na organização do conhecimento (2017)
    Memória, cultura e tecnologia na Organização do Conhecimento, 4(Unknown Issue), pp. 71-78 Authors: Paula Carina de Araujo, Joseph T. Tennis, J A C Guimarães
  • Conference Poster
    Whose Truth? Digital Recordkeeping and Evidence in a Post-Truth World (2017)
    2017 iSchool Research Fair Authors: Nicholas Weber, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Conceptual Provenance in Indexing Languages (2016)
    Building Trust in Information: Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance, pp. 93-99 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Methodological Challenges in Scheme Versioning and Subject Ontogeny Research (2016)
    Knowledge Organization, 43(8), pp. 573-580 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Structure of Classification Theory: On Foundational and the Higher Layers of Classification Theory (2016)
    Advances in Knowledge Organization, 15(Unknown Issue), pp. 84-87 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    The Creativity of Classificationists: What Archival Records Show about the Global and Local Considerations in Classification Design (2016)
    Global/Local Knowledge Organization: Contexts and Questions (in Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Archival Metadata for Digital Cultural Heritage: Conceptual Provenance, Contextual Forensics, and the Authority of the Found Digital Object (2015)
    Proceedings of the Digital Cultural Heritage 2015 Conference, pp. 399-402 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Constructs in Classification Theory (2015)
    iSchool Research Fair Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Published Keynote Address
    Epistemic, Ontic, Axiologic, and Praxic Constructs in Knowledge Organization Research (2015)
    Organização do Conhecimento e Diversidade Cultural. Estudos Avançados em Organização do Conhecimento. 2015 ISKO-Brazil Conference, 3(Unknown Issue), pp. 21-29, ISBN/ISSN: 978-85-98176-70-3 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Foundational, First-Order, and Second-Order Classification Theory (2015)
    Knowledge Organization, 42(4), pp. 244-249 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Foundational, First-Order, and Second-Order Classification Theory (2015)
    Proceedings of the 2015 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Book, Chapter in Non-Scholarly Book-New
    Metadata Application Profiles (2015)
    Encyclopedia of Archival Concepts, Principles, and Practices Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Methodological Constructs in Subject Ontogeny Research, Second Edition (2015)
    iSchool Research Fair Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    On Operationalization and Evaluation of Epistemic and Ontological Claims to Knowledge Organization (2015)
    Advances in Classification Research, 26(Unknown Issue) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • White Paper
    Provenance: Past, Present and Future in Interdisciplinary Perspective: Report on the InterPARES Trust Interdisciplinary Workshop on Provenance (2015)
    Second iTrust Interdisciplinary Workshop on Provenance Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    The Memory of What Is: Ontogenic Analysis and its Relationship to Ontological Concerns in Knowledge Organization (2015)
    Ontology in Knowledge Organization, pp. 161-166 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Theoretical and Engineering Problems of Conceptual Provenance in Long-Lived Classification Schemes (2015)
    iSchool Research Fair Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Words and Emotional Work: Classification Theory’s Constructs Useful for the Analysis of Social Media Data in Terms of Gender, Race, and Sexuality (2015)
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality through Social Media Data Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    A Kaleidoscope Perspective: Change in the Semantics and Structure of Facets and Isolates in Analytico-Synthetic Classification (2014)
    SRELS: Journal of Information Management, 50(6), pp. 789-794 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Description and Différance: Archives, Libraries, and Museum Descriptive Traditions and their Educational Communities and Cultures (2014)
    Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Intensional Megacities: Toward Mapping the Semantics of Linked Classification Schemes (2014)
    Advances in Classification Research, 25(Unknown Issue) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Load Bearing or Levittown? The Edifice Metaphor in Conceptualizing the Ethos of Classification Work (2014)
    Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Knowledge Organization: Advances in Knowledge Organization, 14(Unknown Issue), pp. 222-227 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Me, My Metadata, and the NSA (2014)
    In the proceedings of the 2014 iConference. Authors: Bryce Newell, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Methodological Constructs in Subject Ontogeny Research (2014)
    iSchool Research Fair Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Rubrics of Authenticity in the Cloud: Metadata, Description, Documentation, and Discussion (2014)
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Archives Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Co-Editor, Conference Proceedings
    Advances in Classification Research (2013)
    ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 23(Unknown Issue) Editors: Kathryn La Barre, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Authenticity as a Social Contract - We Are Our Records (2013)
    Proceedings of the 2013 iConference, pp. 801-803 Authors: C Rogers, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
  • Technical Report
    Content Strategy for ChronoZoom 2.0 (2013)
    Content Curation for ChronoZoom Project Authors: Swati Chaturvedi, Sujay Gandhi, Shuai Yu, Michael Crandall, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Developing a video game metadata schema for the Seattle Interactive Media Museum (2013)
    International Journal on Digital Libraries, 13(2), pp. 105-117 Authors: Jin Ha Lee, Joseph T. Tennis, Rachel Clarke, Michael Carpenter
  • Conference Paper
    Diplomatics as a methodological perspective for archival knowledge organization (2013)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO) Authors: Natália Bolfarini Tognoli , José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Edifice Complex: Conceptualizing Classification in 1890 and Now (2013)
    iSchool Research Fair Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Ethos and Ideology of Knowledge Organization: Toward Precepts for an Engaged Knowledge Organization (2013)
    Knowledge Organization, 40(1), pp. 42-49 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Learning Linked Data for Educators (2013)
    Authors: Michael Crandall, Joseph T. Tennis, Stuart Sutton, David Talley, Thomas Baker
  • Conference Paper
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Modeling the aesthetic axis of information organization frameworks, part 1: Theoretical basis (2013)
    Journal of Documentation, 69(6), pp. 807-826 Authors: Paul Ojennus, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Modeling the aesthetic axis of information organization frameworks, part 2: Cast studies (2013)
    Journal of Documentation, 69(6), pp. 827-850 Authors: Paul Ojennus, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Planning a Platform for Learning Linked Data (2013)
    DC-2013 Linking to the Future Authors: Michael Crandall, Joseph T. Tennis, Stuart Sutton, T Baker, D Talley
  • Conference Poster
    Poster: Authenticity as a Social Contract - We Are Our Records (2013)
    2013 iConference Authors: C Rogers, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    The Weight of Language and Action: Epistemic Stance, Methodological Action, and Theoretical Perspective in Knowledge Organization (2013)
    Tales from the Edge: Narrative Voices in Information Research and Practice: Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Toward a Taxonomy of Harm in Knowledge Organization Systems (2013)
    Knowledge Organization, 40(4), pp. 266-272 Authors: Melissa Adler, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Toward a Taxonomy of Harm in Knowledge Organization Systems (2013)
    Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO) Authors: Melissa Adler, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Uncovering Epistemological Assumptions Underlying Research in Information Studies (2013)
    Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Authors: S Fuller, B Hjørland, F Ibekwe-SanJuan, L Ma, J-E Mai, Joseph T. Tennis, J Warner
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Conference Paper
    Aeons and Flux: Timelines and Epistemes in Classification Design and Evaluation (2012)
    Advances in Classification Research, 23(Unknown Issue) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Categorical Landscapes: Large Scale Cluster Analysis of Wikipedia Category System over Time (2012)
    iSchool Research Fair 2012 Authors: Jevin West, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Comparative Modeling of Vickery’s Faceted Classification and the Oeuvre of S. R. Ranganathan (2012)
    Facets of Knowledge Organization: A Tribute to Professor Brian Vickery 1918-2009, pp. 301-313 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Constant Pioneers: The Citation Frontiers of Indexing Theory in ISKO International Proceedings (2012)
    Proceedings of the 12th International Conference for Knowledge Organization: Advances in Knowledge Organization, 13(Unknown Issue), pp. 39-43 Authors: J. A. C. Guimarães, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Data, Documents, and Memory: A Taxonomy of Sources in Relation to Digital Preservation Metadata (2012)
    UNESCO Conference on Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Domain analysis for a video game metadata schema: issues and challenges (2012)
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2012, 7489(Unknown Issue), pp. 280-285 Authors: Jin Ha Lee, Joseph T. Tennis, Rachel Clarke
  • Conference Poster
    Emerging Concepts in Ontogenic Analysis (2012)
    iSchool Research Fair 2012 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Facets and Fugit Tempus: Considering Time in Faceted Classification Schemes (2012)
    Proceedings of the 12th International Conference for Knowledge Organization. Advances in Knowledge Organization, 13(Unknown Issue), pp. 58-62 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Facets of Access: a Typology of Information Dissemination Systems (2012)
    iConference 2012, pp. 544-545 Authors: Elisabeth Jones, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Forms, Knowledge, and Forms of Knowing: Correct and Useful Epistemology and Knowledge Organization (2012)
    Desafios e perspectivas científicas para a organização do conhecimento na atualidade. Estudos avançados em organização do conhecimento., 1(Unknown Issue), pp. 22-29 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Research Report
    General Study 15 – Application Profile for Authenticity Metadata (2012)
    Authors: Joseph T. Tennis, Corinne Rogers
  • Conference Extended Abstract
    Humanistic Information Science (2012)
    Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, ISBN/ISSN: 0-87715-544-7 Authors: Melanie Feinberg, Jonathan Furner, Jens-Erik Mai, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
    Questions about Content Curation in ChronoZoom (2012)
    iSchool Research Fair 2012 Authors: Michael Crandall, Joseph T. Tennis, Rachel Clarke
  • Conference Paper
    Some Temporal Aspects of Indexing and Classification: Toward a Metrics for Measuring Scheme Change (2012)
    iConference 2012, pp. 311-316 Authors: Joseph T. Tennis, Katherine Thornton, Filer Andrew
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Conference Poster
    Visualizing the Life-Cycle of Authenticity Metadata (2012)
    iSchool Research Fair 2012 Authors: Corinne Rogers, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    What Does a Domain Analysis Look Like in Form, Function, and Genre? (2012)
    A organização do conhecimento como domínio: perspectivas teóricas, pp. 1-10 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    What Does a Domain Analysis Look Like in Form, Function, and Genre? (2012)
    A organização do conhecimento como domínio: perspectivas teóricas. São Paulo : Cultura Acadêmica, 6(1), pp. 3–14 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Ekphrasis, Artists’ Intentions, and Anthropological Polemics in Angle Brackets: Toward a Thicker Description of Digital Documentary Material (2011)
    Advances in Classification Research, 22 (Unknown Issue) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Is There a New Bibliography? (2011)
    Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 49(2) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Ranganathan’s Layers of Classification Theory and the FASDA Model of Classification (2011)
    Proceedings of the 2011 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Form, Intention, and Indexing: The Liminal and Integrated Conceptions of Work in Knowledge Organization (2010)
    Advances in Classification Research Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Measured Time: Imposing a Temporal Metric to Classificatory Structures (2010)
    Proceedings of the 11th International Conference for Knowledge Organization, Advances in Knowledge Organization vol. 12(Unknown Issue) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Poster
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Social tagging in the life sciences: characterizing a new metadata resource for bioinformatics (2009)
    BMC Bioinformatics, 10(313) Authors: B M Good, Joseph T. Tennis, M. W. Wilkinson
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Term Based Comparison Metrics for Controlled and Uncontrolled Indexing Languages (2009)
    Information Research, 14(1) Authors: B M Good, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Book Editor, Scholarly
    Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference for Knowledge Organization (2008)
    11(Unknown Issue) Editors: C. Arsenault, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Conference Poster
    Evidence of Term-Structure Differences among Folksonomies and Controlled Indexing Languages (2008)
    Annual Meeting for the American Society for Information Science and Technology Authors: B M Good, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Extending the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) for Concept Management in Vocabulary Development Applications (2008)
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59(1), pp. 25-37 Authors: Joseph T. Tennis, Stuart Sutton
  • Conference Paper
    Toward a Theory of Structure in Information Organization Frameworks (2008)
    Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference for Knowledge Organization, Advances in Knowledge Organization vol. 11(Unknown Issue), pp. 262-268 Authors: Joseph T. Tennis, E. K. Jacob
  • Conference Paper
    Diachronic and Synchronic Indexing: Modeling Conceptual Change in Indexing Languages (2007)
    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, pp. 1-11 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Problems and Perspectives for LIS Professionals (2007)
    IBERSID: Revista de Sistemas de Información y Documentación,, pp. 303-311 Authors: Joseph T. Tennis, J Calzada-Prado
  • Book Editor, Scholarly
    Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (2007)
    1(Unknown Issue) Editor: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Scheme Versioning in the Semantic Web (2007)
    Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 43(4), pp. 85-104 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Social capital 2.0: New ICTs and new social forms (2007)
    Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 44(Unknown Issue) Authors: Claire R McInerney, Joseph T. Tennis, Anna-Karin Tötterman, Gunilla Widén-Wulff, Steve Wright, Ronald E Day
  • Conference Paper
    The Economic and Aesthetic Axis of Information Organization Frameworks (2007)
    Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, pp. 112-113 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Comparative Functional Analysis of Boundary Infrastructures, Library Classification, and Folksonomies (2006)
    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 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Function, Purpose, Prediction, and Context of Information Organization Frameworks (2006)
    Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Knowledge Organization. International Society for Knowledge Organization, Advances in Knowledge Organization vol 10(Unknown Issue), pp. 303-310 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Technical Report
  • Conference Paper
    Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing: Fordist Relexivity and Intertextuality (2006)
    Advances in Classification Research, 17(Unknown Issue) Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Technical Report
    Terminology Cross-Domain Final Report (2006)
    Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    The Notion of the 'Concept Instance': Problems in Modeling Concept Change in SKOS (2006)
    International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning Authors: Joseph T. Tennis, Stuart Sutton, D. Hillmann
  • Book Review
    Theory, Culture & Society Vol. 23 (2-3) Edited by Mike Featherstone (2006)
    Knowledge Organization, 33(4), pp. 216-219 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    Toward a general approach to information organization (2006)
    Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Authors: Jonathan Furner, Francis Miksa, William E Moen, Frank Exner, Little Bear, Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    Versioning Concept Schemes for Persistent Retrieval (2006)
    Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Experientialist Epistemology and Classification Theory: Embodied and Dimensional Classification (2005)
    Knowledge Organization, 32(2), pp. 79-92 Author: Joseph T. Tennis
  • Conference Paper
    SKOS and the Ontogenesis of Vocabularies (2005)
    International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice, pp. 275-278 Author: Joseph T. Tennis

Presentations

  • Metadata and the Archival Bond(s): Reconsidering the Technological Apparatus, What We Call It, and Where We Find It (2023)
    48th ACA Annual Conference: Belonging - Considering archival bonds and disconnects - Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
  • Classification Across Time, Context, and Purpose (2022)
    Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Workshop - Seattle, WA
  • Comparative Classification (2022)
    Dublin Core Metadata Initiative International Conference (DCMI) 2022 - Virtual
  • NKOS Workshop 2022 (2022)
    Dublin Core Metadata Initiative International Conference (DCMI) 2022 - Virtual
  • Pennies to Guineas and Old Wine in New Bottles: Reconsidering Metadata and Considerting Paradata (2022)
    InterPARES Trust AI - Paris, Rome
  • Problem-Solved: Metadata Explorations vs. Metadata Education (2021)
    Dublin Core Metadata Initiative International Conference - Virtual
  • Research at iSchools (2021)
    iConference 2021 Doctoral Colloquium - Virtual
  • Research at iSchools (2021)
    iConference 2021 - Beijing, China
  • Before and After: Artefacts of Temporality in Knowledge Organization Systems (2020)
    iConference 2020 (Suspended due to COVID-19 - Borås, Sweden
  • In Lux Perpetua: Algorithmic Transparency, Subject Ontogeny Work, and the Ethical Use of Classification Theory (2020)
    iSchool Research Fair (Suspended due to COVID-19) - Seattle, WA
  • Invisible, Not Viable, Venal, and Now Vibrant: Metadata Research throughout InterPARES (2020)
    2020 International InterPARES Symposium - San José, Costa Rica
  • Metadata as it has been researched throughout InterPARES (2020)
    InterPARES Research Findings Conference - San Jose, Costa Rica
  • Pure Flow and Mixed Flow: Comparative Examination of Census Ethnicity Classification as a Case Study for Category Formation (2020)
    iSchool Research Fair (Suspended due to COVID-19 - Seattle, WA
  • Tec(h)tonic Race and Ethnicity: Conceptual Structuration of Census Data (2020)
    2020 ASIS&T Virtual Annual Meeting - Virtual
  • Authenticity Metadata and the Integrity of Systems: An Empirical Study (2019)
    iSchool Research Fair - Seattle, Washington
  • Critical Structured Data Studies (2019)
    iSchool Research Fair - Seattle, Washington
  • Domain Analysis and Domain Change: Platform Shift and Alignment Documentation and Knowledge Organization Work (2019)
    Domain Analysis Clinic of the Institute for Knowledge Organization and Structure - Milwaukee, WI
  • Episemantics: Aboutness as Aroundness (2019)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - Philadelphia, PA
  • FASDA Classification Theory (2019)
    iSchool Research Fair - Seattle, Washington
  • Hierarchy and the Foundations of Classification: The Inspection of its Ontological Status and its Role in Ethics (2019)
    The Inaugural Conference of the Low Countries Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization - Brussels, Belgium
  • Metatheoretical Restoration: Modeling Ranganathan’s Dynamic Theory of Classification (2019)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - Philadelphia, PA
  • Mutatis Mutandis: Evidence of Authenticity through “Metadata” and its Sources in Records Preservation (2019)
    InterPARES Trust Cuban Workshop - Havana, Cuba
  • Platform Analysis and Change: A New Look at Domain Analysis in Light of Subject Ontogeny Work (2019)
    iSchool Research Fair - Seattle, Washington
  • Second-Order Classification Theory: Contextualizing Classification Change in Our Design Commitments (2019)
    iSchool Research Symposium - Seattle, WA
  • Engineering the Discourse, or, New Sources for the History of Ideas: A Workshop Exploring the Intersection of Linked Open Data, Classification Theory, and Digital Humanities (2018)
    Workshop on Critical Structured Data Studies: University of California-Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA
  • Ensuring the Future of Libraries: Connecting the Academy and the Profession (2018)
    Public Library Association Conference - Philadelphia, PA
  • Ensuring the Future of Libraries: Connecting the Academy and the Profession (2018)
    Public Library Association (PLA) 2018 Conference - Philadelphia, PA
  • Expressing and obscuring throughout: Politics, values, and semantics derived from a conceptual analysis of classification terms (2018)
    The Politics of Classification Workshop - 15th Annual Conference on Knowledge Organization - Porto, Portugal
  • Influence of Metatheory on Knowledge Organization (2018)
    15th Annual Conference on Knowledge Organization - Porto, Portugal
  • Intellectual History, History of Ideas, and Subject Ontogeny (2018)
    15th Annual Conference on Knowledge Organization - Porto, Portugal
  • Knowledge Organization as Science: The Vision of Ingetraut Dahlberg (2018)
    Fifteenth International ISKO Conference - Porto, Portugal
  • Lemmata Manifest: Modeling Classification Theory Using IDEF0 Formalism to Surface Elisions (2018)
    iSchool Research Fair - Seattle, WA
  • Resources, Priorities, and Equity: Conversations and Practices in the Service of a Joyful Faculty Life (2018)
    2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting - Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Semantic Record Keeping and the IPAM (InterPARES Authenticity Metadata Application Profile): A Different Kind of Case Study for Authenticity Metadata (2018)
    State Archives of Rome - Rome, Italy
  • Semantic Space and Conceptual Geometry: A Gap Analysis for Classification Methodology (2018)
    iSchool Research Fair - Seattle, WA
  • Solid Foundations and Some Secondary Assumptions in the Design of Bibliographic Metadata: Toward a Typology of Complementary Uses of Metadata (2018)
    15th Annual Conference on Knowledge Organization - Porto, Portugal
  • The Ideal, the Real, and Way Forward: Archival Metadata in the Contemporary Distributed Environment (2018)
    InterPARES European Team Symposium - Jerusalem, Israel
  • Warrant, Analysis, and Mapping: Classification Theory, Digital Humanities and the Contemporary Linked Data Environment (2018)
    Workshop on Critical Structured Data Studies: University of California-Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA
  • A Faculty of One with Faculty Affairs: An Undepartmentalized Model of iSchool Faculty Shared Governance (2017)
    iConference 2017 - Wuhan, China
  • Conceptual Geometry and Analytico-Synthetic Techniques in Classification (2017)
    International Conference on Knowledge Organization for Information Management: Revisiting Ranganathan - Chennai, India
  • Do We Have All the Terms for this Art?: Exploring the Nature and Continued Conceptualization of KOS through their Collective and Individual Histories (2017)
    Observatory for Knowledge Organisation Systems Workshop - Valetta, Malta
  • Expressing and Obscuring Throughout: Politics, Values, and Semantics Derived form a Conceptual Analysis of Classification Terms (2017)
    Politics of Classification, Invitational Multidisciplinary Symposium - Los Angeles, CA
  • Facets and Change: Design Requirements for Analytio-Synthetic Schemes in Light of Subject Ontogeny Research (2017)
    International UDC Seminar 2017: Faceted Classification Today - London, UK
  • Foundations and Moving Forward: The Horizons and the Future of Research in Knowledge Organization (2017)
    2017 ISKO-Spain Portugal Conference - Coimbra, Portugal
  • International Society for Knowledge Organization (2017)
    2017 NKOS Workshop - Crystal City, VA
  • Perspective, Voice, Reference, and Warrant: A Sample of Ameliorations to the Multi-Perspective Design Requirement and Some Arguments Against It (2017)
    American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group/Classification Research Workshop - Crystal City, WA
  • Through Formal Analysis and Theories of Meaning: Extending the Trajectory of S. R. Ranganathan's Theoretical Frameworks in Classification Research (2017)
    iSchool Research Symposium - Seattle, WA
  • Through Formal Analysis and Theories of Meaning: Extending the Trajectory of S. R. Ranganathan’s Theoretical Frameworks in Classification Research (2017)
    19th Sarada Ranganathan Endowment lectures/Ranganathan Memorial - Chennai, India
  • Voice in Context: Culture, Inclusion, and Faculty Review (2017)
    ADVANCE Workshop - Seattle, WA
  • Whose Truth? Digital Recordkeeping and Evidence in a Post-Truth World (2017)
    iSchool Research Fair - Seattle, Washington
  • Construct and Construct Patterns for Ethical Knowledge Organization (2016)
    European and International Doctoral Seminar on Advances in Social Sciences and Humanities: State of the Art, Findings, Perspectives from France and the International Community, Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3 - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
  • Contextual Forensics and Archival Metadata (2016)
    Guest lecture in PhD, Master 1 and 2 Courses, Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3 - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
  • Dublin Core at 21 and Beyond: On Solid Foundations We Build New Work (2016)
    Dublin Core at 21, IFLA Satellite Meeting - Dublin, OH
  • Enumerative, Faceted, and Second-Order Classification Theory (2016)
    Guest lecture in PhD Course, Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3 - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
  • Information Provenance and Versioning: Ontogeny and Its Constructs (2016)
    Guest lecture in Master 1 Course, Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3 - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
  • iSchools and the iSchools Movement (2016)
    Guest lecture in PhD, Master 1 and 2 Courses, Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3 - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
  • Know You Do Wrong: Intentionality, Ethics, and Knowledge Organization (2016)
    European and International Doctoral Seminar on Advances in Social Sciences and Humanities: State of the Art, Findings, Perspectives from France and the International Community, Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3 - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
  • Metadata in the Wild: Comparative Analysis of Knowledge Organization Structures, Practices, and Discourses (2016)
    Guest lecture in Master 1 Course, Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3 - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
  • Renewable Concepts: Intellectual Landscape of Knowledge Organization for a Sustainable World." KO for a Sustainable World: ISKO Perspectives. (2016)
    International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Structure of Classification Theory: On Foundational and the Higher Layers of Classification Theory (2016)
    13th Annual Conference on Knowledge Organization - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • The Creativity of Classificationists: What Archival Records Show about the Global and Local Considerations in Classification Design (2016)
    Global/Local Knowledge Organization: Contexts and Questions Panel, at Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • The Hamburg Hydra and Semantics: Classification, Ethnography, Provenance, and Truth (2016)
    Digital Humanities Cross-Disciplinary Lecture, Linnaeus University - Växjö, Sweden
  • Archival Metadata for Digital Cultural Heritage: Conceptual Provenance, Contextual Forensics, and the Authority of the Found Digital Object (2015)
    Digital Cultural Heritage 2015 Conference - Granada, Spain
  • Cannons, Connections, and Questions (2015)
    Round Table Talk at 2015 ISKO-Brazil Conference - Marília, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Casting Our Eyes Over the Threads of the Cataloguer's Work: Population Perspective in Metadata Research (2015)
    Evolution and variation of classification systems: how stable is the organization of knowledge and how diverse is its representations? Toward a Metadata Observatory, eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences - Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Categoriography: Thick Description of Semantics in Long-lived Complex Information Systems (2015)
    New Trends in eHumanities, eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences - Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Conceptual Provenance in Indexing Languages (2015)
    iTrust Interdisciplinary Workshop on Provenance. World Bank. - Washington, D. C.
  • Constructs and Construct Patterns for Ethical Knowledge Organization (2015)
    Third Milwaukee Conference on Ethics in Knowledge Organization - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Epistemic, Ontic, Axiologic, and Praxic Constructs in Knowledge Organization Research (2015)
    2015 ISKO-Brazil Conference - Marília, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Foundational, First-Order, and Second-Order Classification Theory (2015)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - Los Angeles, CA
  • Intentional Practice in Knowledge Organization and Librarianship (2015)
    College Librarians and Media Specialists of Washington State 2015 Conference - Everett, Washington
  • Invisible ‘Conceptual’ Art and the Harm It Can Do: Defining the Aesthetics of the Archive, Classification, and Knowledge Organization (2015)
    This Might Now Work interdisciplinary presentation series. Photo Center Northwest - Seattle, Washington
  • Local and Global Knowledge Organization: Constructs, Commonalities, and our new Cartography (2015)
    Local and Global Knowledge Organization - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • On Operationalization and Evaluation of Epistemic and Ontological Claims to Knowledge Organization (2015)
    American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group/Classification Research Workshop - St. Louis, Missouri
  • Words and Emotional Work: Classification Theory’s Constructs Useful for the Analysis of Social Media Data in Terms of Gender, Race, and Sexuality (2015)
    Workshop on Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality through Social Media Data - Newport Beach, California
  • 2014 San Francisco Zen Center Archives Project (2014)
    San Francisco Zen Center - San Francisco, CA
  • A Crucible for Collections and Classification: The Built Environment, the Social Milieu and Their Effect on Bibliographical Access in of New York City Libraries 1890-1930 (2014)
    Research Conversation, University of Washington Information School - Seattle, WA
  • A New York Semantic Pastiche: Writing and Intertextuality in the Billings Classification (2014)
    Society for Textual Studies 18th International Interdisciplinary Conference - Seattle, WA
  • A New York Semantic Pastiche: Writing and Intertextuality in the Billings Classification (2014)
    Society for Textual Studies 18th International Interdisciplinary Conference - Seattle, WA
  • Cannons, Affiliations, and Polytely: The Future of Knowledge Organization and ISKO (2014)
    A Discussion panel. ISKO and KO 25 Anniversary: The Future of Knowledge Organization and ISKO. International Society for Knowledge Organization - Krakow, Poland
  • Description and Différance: Archive, Library, and Museum Descriptive Traditions and Their Educational Communities and Cultures (2014)
    Association of Information Science and Technology annual meeting (ASIS&T) - Seattle, WA
  • Evidence or Tea Leaves? Digital Records, Fragmented Systems, and Authenticity Metadata (2014)
    Investigating the Archive: Memory & Identity, The Royal Society of Edinburgh - Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Intensional Megacities: Toward Mapping the Semantics of Linked Classification Schemes (2014)
    American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group/Classification Research Workshop - Seattle, WA
  • Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Connecting Educational Cultures and Communities (2014)
    ASIS&T Annual Conference - Seattle, WA
  • Linnaean Fever: Symptoms and Heuristics in the Order of the Archive (2014)
    University of Washington Art Department - Seattle, WA
  • Load Bearing or Levittown? The Edifice Metaphor in Conceptualizing the Ethos of Classification Work (2014)
    13th Annual Conference on Knowledge Organization - Krakow, Poland
  • Me, My Metadata, and the NSA: Privacy and Government Metadata Surveillance Programs (2014)
    iConference 2014 - Berlin, Germany
  • Metadata, Mutatis Mutandis: Cloud-Based Conceptions of Authenticity Metadata (2014)
    Provenance, Metadata & Ethics: Trust and Recordkeeping in the Cloud?, Society for American Archivists - Washington, DC
  • Methodological Constructs in Subject Ontogeny Research (2014)
    University of Washington Information School Research Fair - Seattle, WA
  • Networks, Authenticity, Metadata, and the Cloud (2014)
    International Symposium on Records in the Cloud - Stockholm, Sweden
  • Rubrics of Authenticity in the Cloud: Metadata, Description, Documentation, and Discussion (2014)
    International Council on Archives - Girona, Spain
  • Collocative Integrity and Our Many Varied Subjects: What the Metric of Alignment between Classification Scheme and Indexer Tells Us About Langridge?s Theory of Indexing (2013)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - Milwaukee, WI
  • Constructs in Knowledge Organization Systems: Rhythm in Time, Intention, and Form (2013)
    9th Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization - French Chapter - Paris, France
  • Diplomatics as a Methodological Perspective for Archival Knowledge Organization (2013)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - Milwaukee, WI
  • Immovable Types, Conceptual Neighborhoods, or Semantic Diaspora? Making Sense of the Findings from the Ontogenic Analysis of a Long-Lived Classification Scheme (2013)
    Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Champaign-Urbana, IL
  • Justified and True Intentions: Epistemic Assumptions in KOS Research (2013)
    Uncovering Epistemological Assumptions underlying Research in Information Studies, Association for Information Science and Technology - Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Metadata and Schema Issues as Part of ChronoZoom 2.0 (2013)
    January Kickoff for ChronoZoom 2.0 Summit, Microsoft Research - Redmond, WA
  • Metaphors of Time and Installed Knowledge Organization Systems: Ouroboros, Architectonics, or Lachesis? (2013)
    Conceptions of Library and Information Science 8, Det Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Open Worlds in Closed Systems: The Methodological Concerns at the Intersection of Literary Warrant and Scheme Change (2013)
    UCLA - Los Angeles, CA
  • Temporal Aspects of Metadata Aggregations in Cultural Heritage Repositories: ChronoZoom HathiTrust and the Volume, Variety, and Velocity of Contemporary Information Organization (2013)
    2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, ACM/IEEE - Indianapolis, IN
  • The Strange Case of Eugenics: A Subject?s Ontogeny in a Long-Lived Classification Scheme and the Question of Collocative Integrity (2013)
    ALISE ?13: Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, ALISE - Seattle, WA
  • The Weight of Language and Action: Epistemic Stance, Methodological Action, and Theoretical Perspective in Knowledge Organization (2013)
    41st Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science - Victoria, BC, Canada
  • Toward a Taxonomy of Harm in Knowledge Organization Systems (2013)
    North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - Milwaukee, WI
  • A Convenient Verisimilitude or Oppressive Internalization? Characterizing the Ethical Arguments surrounding Hierarchical Structures in Knowledge Organization Systems (2012)
    2nd Milwaukee Conference on Ethics of Information Organization - Milwaukee, WI
  • Aeons and Flux: Timelines and Epistemes in Classification Design and Evaluation (2012)
    American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group/Classification Research Workshop (ASIST SIG/CR) - Baltimore, MD
  • Authenticity Metadata and the IPAM: Progress toward the InterPARES Application Profile (2012)
    International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Metadata for Meeting Global Challenges - Kuching, Malaysia
  • Constant Pioneers: The Citation Frontiers of Indexing Theory in ISKO International Proceedings (2012)
    12th International Conference for Knowledge Organization - Mysore, India
  • Data, Documents, and Memory: A Taxonomy of Sources in Relation to Digital Preservation Metadata (2012)
    Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation, UNESCO - Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Enumerating and Erasing Eugenics in the DDC: Methodological Concerns at the Intersection of Literary Warrant and Scheme Change (2012)
    University of Wisconsin Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI
  • Facets and Fugit Tempus: Considering Time in Faceted Classification Schemes (2012)
    12th International Conference for Knowledge Organization - Mysore, India
  • Neither Editor nor Librarian: The Interventions Required in the New Context of Texts in the Digital World (2012)
    Modern Language Association - Seattle, WA
  • Precepts for an Engaged Knowledge Organization." Transl. "Preceitos para uma Organiza??o do conhecimento comprometida ? EKO (2012)
    Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Florian›polis, Brazil
  • Precepts for an Engaged Knowledge Organization." Transl. "Preceitos para uma Organiza??o do conhecimento comprometida ? EKO (2012)
    Univerisade de Estaudual Paulista - Mar­lia, Brazil
  • Some Temporal Aspects of Indexing and Classification: Toward a Metrics for Measuring Scheme Change (2012)
    iConference 2012 - Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Subject Ontogeny and Scheme Versioning: A Semantic Archaeology and Its Methods (2012)
    Round Table on Emerging Research in Knowledge Organization hosted by Univerisade de Estaudual Paulista, UNESP, Univerisade de Estaudual Paulista, UNESP - Mar­lia, Brazil
  • Subject Ontogeny, Intention in Indexing, and Descriptive Informatics (2012)
    Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Florian›polis, Brazil
  • Tale of Two Timelines: Structural Analysis and Comparison of Chain of Preservation Metadata and Classification Scheme Change Over Time (2012)
    Research Conversation, University of Washington, iSchool - Seattle, WA
  • The Strange Case of Eugenics vs. Anatomy: Investigating and Benchmarking Change in Subject Classification (2012)
    University of Montreal - Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Time Capsulation: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Studying Scheme Change (2012)
    McGill University - Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Toward a Geometry of Meaning: Some Work on Creating a Systematic Evaluation Rubric for Knowledge Organization Systems (2012)
    Research Conversation - Seattle, WA
  • Trust, Conflicting Rights, and Metadata (2012)
    Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study Exploratory Workshop on Trust and Conflicting Rights in the Digital Environment - Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Clarity in Form and Purpose: Metadata beyond the Schemas (2011)
    ACA - Association of Canadian Archivists - Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Classification (Guest Lecture) (2011)
    University of Montreal - Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Comparative Modeling of Vickery's Faceted Classification and the Oeuvre of S. R. Ranganathan (2011)
    Facets of Knowledge Organization: A Tribute to Professor Brian Vickery, ISKO-United Kingdom - London, England, United Kingdom
  • Description Writ Large: Comparisons and Crossovers in the Lineages of Archival and Bibliographic Description (2011)
    Niter›i, Brazil
  • Diachrony in Indexing Languages: A Case Study of Anatomy and Eugenics in the Dewey Decimal Classification (2011)
    Linguistics Department Colloquium - Seattle, WA
  • Forms, Knowledge, and Forms of Knowing: Epistemology and Knowledge Organization (2011)
    ISKO-Brazil Conference on KO and Representation - Brasilia, Brazil
  • Leveraging Metadata: Interoperability Across Systems, Time and Conceptions (2011)
    Annual Meeting, Society of American Archivists - Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Precepts for an Engaged Knowledge Organization." Transl. "Preceitos para uma Organiza??o do conhecimento comprometida ? EKO (2011)
    State University of S?o Paulo - Mar­lia, Brazil
  • The Scaffolding of Self-Becoming: Some Feminist Perspectives on Structure and Semantics in Knowledge Organization (2011)
    Research Conversation, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Form, Intention, and Indexing: Liminal Conception Work and Integrated Conception of Self and Labor in Knowledge Organization (2010)
    Special Interest Group/Classification Research Workshop, ASIS&T - American Society for Information Science & Technology - Pittsburgh, PA
  • Knowledge Organization as Design Research (2010)
    DUB Colloquium, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Measured Time: Imposing a Temporal Metric to Classificatory Structures (2010)
    International Conference, ISKO - International Society for Knowledge Organization - Rome, Italy
  • Metadata: Interoperability Across Systems, Time, and Conceptions (2010)
    International Symposium, InterPARES 3 Project - Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Modeling Ranganathan's Classification Theory Using IDEF0 Formalism (2010)
    Research Conversations, Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Report on Metadata Developments (1): Interoperability Across Systems, Time, and Conceptions (2010)
    International Symposium, InterPARES 3 Project - Oslo, Norway
  • Things Change. The Ontogenetics of Class Populations in Vocabularies (2010)
    Semantic Web in Biomedicine Seminar, Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Engaged Knowledge Organization: A Rationale, Background, and Agenda for Work (2009)
    Annual Conference, Track 2: Knowledge Organization, ASIS&T - American Society for Information Science & Technology - Joao Pessoa, Brazil
  • 2008@myStuffWicked and [within double rules] An Account | OF | VIRTUE: | OR, | Dr. Henry More's | ABRIDGEMENT | OF | MORALS, | Put into Engli?h. ||: The Landscape of Contemporary Resource Description (2008)
    Bridge Consortium, Carleton College/St. Olaf College - Northfield, MN
  • Going through the motions: The process and product of tagging (2008)
    Athenaeum Panel Presentation, Carleton College - Northfield, MN
  • Semantics on the web (2008)
    Guest Lecture, Carleton College - Northfield, MN
  • Work-Thema, Theme-Nomen, and Group 3: Or What Is It All About? (2008)
    Annual Conference, ISKO - International Society for Knowledge Organization - Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Epistemic Constructs in the Design, Study, and Critique of Knowledge Organization Structures (2007)
    International Conference, Information Resources Management Association - Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Metadados de documentos digitais: The InterPARES 2 Metadata Schema (2007)
    Seminÿrio Internacional de Documentos Digitais - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Policies and Development of Contemporary Descriptive Practice: A Brave New World (2007)
    Annual Conference, British Columbia Library Association Conference - Burnaby, BC, Canada
  • Semantic Carnival: Tagging and the New Descriptive Acts of the Next Generation Web (2007)
    Emerging Scholars: An iSchool PhD Alumni Lecture, Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Concept evolution (subject ontogeny) in the NLM classification scheme: a case study (2006)
    Annual Conference, Canadian Health Libraries Association - Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Metadata and Description as seen in the InterPARES 2 Investigations and the Chain of Preservation Model of Electronic Records (2006)
    International Symposium on Electronic Records - Singapore
  • Vocabularies (2006)
    Annual Conference, DCMA - Dublic Core and Metadata Applications - Manzanillo, Mexico
  • Accessing and Managing e-Resources: a discussion (2005)
    E-Library Committee, University of British Columbia Library - Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • InterPARES Findings and the GoC Records Management Metadata Standard and Application Profile (2005)
    Library and Archives Canada - Ottawa, CA
  • What the Future Holds: Issues and Trends Impacting Cataloguers (2005)
    Annual Conference: From Scrolls to eBooks, BC Library Conference - Burnaby, BC, Canada