CFP: 3rd Milwaukee Conference on Ethics in Knowledge Organization

The Center for Information Policy Research is proud to again be a sponsor of the 3rd Milwaukee Conference on Ethics in Knowledge Organization (previously called Ethics of Information Organization). The official conference website is here, and the original call for papers is provided below.


The Big Deal: 3rd Milwaukee Conference on Ethics in Knowledge Organization

May 28-29, 2015

Milwaukee, WI

The role of ethics in knowledge organization has moved from the background to the foreground. Objectivity and literary warrant alone have been shown to be insufficient for ethical knowledge organization. Ethical concerns have been demonstrated in the roles of exclusivity and point-of-view, the relationship between literary and cultural warrant, in the creation of knowledge organization systems that embrace socio-political symbolism, and in the evolution of standards and professional best practices for the implementation of knowledge organization. Following the success of conferences held in 2009 and 2012, The Knowledge Organization Research Group joins with the Center for Information Policy and Research of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to present the Third Milwaukee Conference on Ethics in Knowledge Organization. We welcome papers and posters on any aspect of ethics and knowledge organization including but not limited to: bibliographic standards, cataloging and indexing best-practices, classification, controlled vocabulary, technology, the professions, cultural, economic, political, corporate, international, multicultural and multilingual aspects of knowledge organization.

Keynote Speakers:

  • Tina Gross, Catalog Librarian/Associate Professor, St. Cloud State University
  •  Joe Tennis, Associate Professor, University of Washington, and President, International Society for Knowledge Organization

 

Call for Papers

We invite submission of proposals which will include name(s) of presenter(s), title(s), affiliation(s), contact information and an abstract of 750 words for papers; 300-500 words for posters.

All abstracts will be published on the website of the UWM, Knowledge Organization Research Group (KOrg). Full papers will be published in a special issue of Knowledge Organization.

Submit proposals via email to Inkyung Choi: ichoi@uwm.edu

  • Abstracts due: February 16, 2015
  • Notification of acceptance by: March 16, 2015
  • Full papers due: July 16, 2015

Poster: https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/groups/sois/webdocs/events/EthicsInKO-CFP.pdf  

 

The Program Committee:

Melissa Adler, University of Kentucky, USA

Jihee Beak, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Allyson Carlyle, University of Washington, USA

José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, USA

Birger Hjørland, The Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark

Lynne C Howarth, University of Toronto, Canada

Joyce Latham, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Patrick Keilty, University of Toronto, Canada

Hur-Li Lee, Conference Co-Chair, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Jens-Erik Mai, The Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark

Steven J. Miller, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Hope A Olson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Sandra Roe, Milner Library, Illinois State University, USA

Richard Smiraglia, Conference Co-Chair, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Joe Tennis, University of Washington, USA

Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Sponsored by:

UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies

The Center for Information Policy Research

The Knowledge Organization Research Group