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In the margins: Reflections on scribbles, knowledge organization, and access

A favored text, dog-eared and yellowed from use, yet still useful, brings back insights that we try to impart to our students when we teach knowledge organization, organization and control of recorded information courses, whichever words we have chosen to label them. Scribbled in the margins 1 are notes to self, keywords, subject headings? “tags”? to remind us of why this particular passage was relevant to us. These scribbles include notes about the thoughts, subjects, eloquent linguistics that we wish to remember, and to access at a later time, maybe even our thoughts that occurred as we read the words. Should someone pick up this same text and read the passages and also the notes, would one necessarily draw the same conclusions, or would one have yet other insights into the author’s meanings, the scribbles, the words? 2 Wilson (1968) reminds us that “What a text says is not necessarily what it reveals or what it allows us to conclude. . . . but what is not said may interest us more than what is said” (p. 18). How then do we access the facts, truths, assertions, that the text conveys, or doesn’t convey, or the different truths, assertions, that occur to another when they read the text? Our knowledge organization structures provide access points to follow. Classification schemes, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, taxonomies, and the like, have been used to access various levels of subject content within the texts. 3 How then, do we access the “meaning”, the conclusions, insights others’ make while reading the words, the scribbles in the margins

The Use of Collaborative Tagging in Public Library Catalogues

In einer neueren Präsentation von Louise Spiteri (Associate Professor, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University) wird eine Untersuchung vorgestellt, mit der herausgefunden werden soll, inwiefern durch Bibliotheksbenutzer kollaborativ verteilte Schlagworte, also Folksonomies, und traditionelle Klassifizierung, in diesem Fall mit Library of Congress Subject Headings, sich ergänzen können. Obwohl mir weder die Prämissen noch das Ziel der Untersuchung ganz klar sind (was zum Teil au..