Joseph T. Tennis is an advisor to an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, Level II on “Developing the Data Set of Nineteenth-Century Knowledge.”  This complements his work on the history and ontology of Nineteenth-Century Classification and its relationship to contemporary design commitments and philosophical assumptions.

Joseph T. Tennis also finished a festschrift for Allyson Carlyle this summer.  The festschrift is a special issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly which features three of Allyson’s students, Melanie Feinberg ('08), Rachel Ivy Clarke ('16), and Joseph T. Tennis ('05), as well as a reprint of a paper by Allyson’s former advisor, Elaine Svenonius.  We are also including a comprehensive bibliography of Allyson’s works in the festschrift.  The special issue is slated for publication for the spring of 2019.  The article titles are below:

• Clarke. “Cataloging Research by Design: A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Research Questions in Cataloging.”
• Feinberg. “Factotem: What is information access for?”
• Svenonius. “Bibliographic Entities and their Uses.”
• Tennis. “Four Orders of Classification Theory and Their Implications.”

Anna Lauren Hoffmann, along with Karen Levy (Cornell University), Solon Barocas (Cornell University), and Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley), was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Collaborative Research Grant of $64,477 to study “Cultivating Ethics in Data Science: Challenges and Opportunities in Academia and Industry.” This $399,732 research project begins January 1, 2019.