Classification and subject retrieval in the 21st century: You can't make jelly without a mould. CIG conference The University of Strathclyde 3 - 5 September 2008           The CIG conference 2008 web pages are now available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG/2008/conf-glasgow/ and online ...

The JISC-funded HILT project (http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/hilt4/index.html) is looking to make contact with staff in  information services or projects interested in helping it test and refine its developing SRW/U based terminology services. The project is currently working to create pilot web services that will deliver machine-readable ...

A bibliography to help workers throughout the UK public sector as they plan implementation of taxonomies for use with Subject metadata. The bibliography has been prepared for Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TiPS), a discussion group which supports the Cabinet Office’s Metadata Working Group by encouraging information professionals in the public ...

Next year’s conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) will be in Glasgow in September 2008. The exact venue and dates are to be confirmed but this is a chance to consider giving a paper/ presentation.   The plan for the conference is to explore current developments in classification and subject retrieval. We hope to ...

Kipp, Margaret E. I. (2007) Tagging for health information organisation and retrieval. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pages pp. 63-74, Toronto, Ontario. This paper examines the tagging practices evident on CiteULike, a research oriented social bookmarking site for journal ...

Pimentel, David M. (2007) Exploring classification as conversation. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pages pp. 1-8, Toronto, Ontario. Conversations are proposed as a useful lens through which to consider knowledge-organizing behaviors. Human conversations are sites of knowledge ...

Feinberg, Melanie (2007) Beyond retrieval: A proposal to expand the design space of classification. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pages pp. 31-43, Toronto, Ontario.  In information science, the creation of classification schemes has been more commonly described in the ...

Green, Rebecca and Fallgren, Nancy (2007) Anticipating new media: a faceted classification of material types. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pages pp. 87-99, Toronto, Ontario. The faceted analysis undertaken here, in which seven facets are recognized (content, generation ...

Spiteri, Louise (2007) Structure and form of folksonomy tags: The road to the public library catalogue. Webology 4(2). Folksonomies have the potential to add much value to public library catalogues by enabling clients to: store, maintain, and organize items of interest in the catalogue using their own tags. The purpose of this paper is to examine ...

Furner, Jonathan and Tennis, Joseph T. (2006) Advances in Classification Research, Volume 17: Proceedings of the 17th ASIS&T SIG/CR Classificaiton Research Workshop. 17th ASIS&T SIG/CR Classificaiton Research Workshop 17, Austin, Texas.