L’École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) de l'Université de Montréal vous invite à une conférence midi intitulée The Strange Case of Eugenics and Anatomy : Investigating and Benchmarking Change in Subject Classification (Conférence en anglais)
Conférencier : Joseph T. Tennis
Joseph T. Tennis is an Assistant Professor at the Information School of the University of Washington, a member of the Textual Studies faculty at UW, an Associate Member of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at The University of British Columbia. He is Reviews Editor for Knowledge Organization, and on the editorial board of Library Quarterly, Journal of Library Metadata, and Knowledge Organization. He is also a member of the Dublin Core Usage Board (an international standards body that works toward the implementation and maintenance of interoperable metadata). He is also active in the InterPARES research project (working on digital records preservation), starting in 2005, chairing the Terminology committee from 2006-2008, and currently serving as an advisor and researcher on metadata issues. He is starting a collaborative research project on 'new Bibliography', investigating how new technologies may or may not change bibliographical method. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies. He received his M.L.S. from Indiana University and the Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington. He works in classification theory, the versioning of classification schemes and thesauri (a.k.a. subject ontogeny), and the comparative discursive analysis of metadata creation and evaluation, both contemporary and historical.
Résumé de la conférence :
Classification schemes change over time. This talk will show two cases of classification scheme change: eugenics and anatomy in the Dewey Decimal classification from 1876 to the present, drawn from catalogues from the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, countries in Asia and Europe. I will draw a timeline of editions, show when class numbers changed (according to both the schedule and relative index), and show where cataloguers placed books with both eugenics and anatomy as first subject headings. These timelines show us how strange is the practice of 'collocation' in classification. From these cases we can begin to identify the degrees and impact of change, coming closer to the ability to benchmark a threshold of change.
