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Domain analysis is useful for examination of individual spheres of intellectual activity, both academic and otherwise, and has been used in the knowledge organization (KO) literature to explore specific communities and uses, including web... more
Domain analysis is useful for examination of individual spheres of intellectual activity, both academic and otherwise, and has been used in the knowledge organization (KO) literature to explore specific communities and uses, including web pornography (Beaudoin and Ménard 2015), virtual online worlds (Sköld, Olle 2015), gourmet
cooking (Hartel 2010), healthy eating (McTavish 2015), art studies (Ørom 2003), the Knowledge Organization journal (Guimarães et al.
2013), and domain analysis itself (Smiraglia 2015). The results of domain analyses are useful for the development of controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies, metadata schemas, and other systems for the documentation, description, and discovery of resources, as well as for knowledge discovery in general (Smiraglia 2015; Hjørland 2017). This research describes a methodology for the elucidation of knowledge organization systems (KOS) currently in use on image websites that document graffiti, graffiti art, and street art around the world.
cooking (Hartel 2010), healthy eating (McTavish 2015), art studies (Ørom 2003), the Knowledge Organization journal (Guimarães et al.
2013), and domain analysis itself (Smiraglia 2015). The results of domain analyses are useful for the development of controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies, metadata schemas, and other systems for the documentation, description, and discovery of resources, as well as for knowledge discovery in general (Smiraglia 2015; Hjørland 2017). This research describes a methodology for the elucidation of knowledge organization systems (KOS) currently in use on image websites that document graffiti, graffiti art, and street art around the world.
Research Interests: Library Science, Knowledge organization, Library and Information Science, Knowledge Organization (Critical Studies In Library And Information Science), Knowledge Organization Systems, and 8 moreGraffiti, Organization of Information, Community archives, Classification, Image Tagging, Street Art and Graffiti, Museums Metadata Cataloging Art, and Art Documentation
Richard P. Smiraglia shares his personal evolution from early studies in music, to music cataloging, instantiation theory, and knowledge organization. People who have impacted his career and research direction are featured, as well as his... more
Richard P. Smiraglia shares his personal evolution from early
studies in music, to music cataloging, instantiation theory, and
knowledge organization. People who have impacted his career
and research direction are featured, as well as his work editing
such publications as Library Resources & Technical Services, The
Soldier Creek Music Series, and his continuing editorship of the
journal Knowledge Organization. His contributions to the fields of
cataloging, especially music cataloging, and his research in
instantiation, domain analysis, and knowledge organization
serve to advance Patrick Wilson’s notion of exploitative power
within a connected universe of knowledge.
studies in music, to music cataloging, instantiation theory, and
knowledge organization. People who have impacted his career
and research direction are featured, as well as his work editing
such publications as Library Resources & Technical Services, The
Soldier Creek Music Series, and his continuing editorship of the
journal Knowledge Organization. His contributions to the fields of
cataloging, especially music cataloging, and his research in
instantiation, domain analysis, and knowledge organization
serve to advance Patrick Wilson’s notion of exploitative power
within a connected universe of knowledge.
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Knowledge organization is the study of the order, whether natural or imposed, of knowledge. As researchers in this field of science have increasingly acknowledged the importance of different epistemologies, or ways of knowing, that merit... more
Knowledge organization is the study of the order, whether natural or imposed, of knowledge. As researchers in this field of science have increasingly acknowledged the importance of different epistemologies, or ways of knowing, that merit not only acceptance but investigation, I have chosen to examine how a particular artistic community describes their processes and products via historical discourse found in graffiti zines from the mid-1980s to 1990s in comparison with the overarching art community discourse as evidenced by a popular controlled vocabulary. The focus of this research project is to examine the sufficiency of vocabulary contained within the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) for use in representing concepts from the graffiti art movement.
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We collected the tags associated with the American Library Association’s Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 on LibraryThing, GoodReads, and BiblioCommons and examined the tags for terms that matched the reasons given for... more
We collected the tags associated with the American Library Association’s Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 on LibraryThing, GoodReads, and BiblioCommons and examined the tags for terms that matched the reasons given for challenging the books, the general age ranges assigned to the books, and the subject matter of the books. User tags demonstrated an awareness of censorship issues related to
banned or challenged books as well as an awareness of subject areas that were potentially controversial.
banned or challenged books as well as an awareness of subject areas that were potentially controversial.
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Details are presented of a recent research project undertaken to ascertain the documentary and descriptive practices associated with graffiti artwork from within the graffiti art community as evidenced by 241 graffiti websites. Domain... more
Details are presented of a recent research project undertaken to ascertain the documentary and descriptive practices associated with graffiti artwork from within the graffiti art community as evidenced by 241 graffiti websites. Domain analytic methodologies following a pragmatic approach to knowledge organization and using evidence obtained from within an artistic community are extremely useful ways to provide insight into what are the most important facets of information to capture for works not often documented from within libraries, archives, and museums. This paper will discuss various methods used to analyze community-driven graffiti art collection, organization, and description in the online environment, the results of which form a part of the basis upon which a faceted KOS can be built.