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Mapping Beyond Dewey's Boundaries: Constructing Classificatory Space for Marginalized Knowledge Domains.
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Olson, Hope A. – Library Trends, 1998
Describes the construction of classification and discusses the development of spatial imagery as a metaphorical mechanism with the ability to discover the processes by which powerful and privileged discourses shape information and with the potential to inform change. Presents a theoretical framework based on spatial conceptions in the context of a…
Descriptors: Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, Discourse Modes, Identification
Grounded Classification: Grounded Theory and Faceted Classification.
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Star, Susan Leigh – Library Trends, 1998
Compares the qualitative method of grounded theory (GT) with Ranganathan's construction of faceted classifications (FC) in library and information science. Both struggle with a core problem--the representation of vernacular words and processes, empirically discovered, which will, although ethnographically faithful, be powerful beyond the single…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Ethnography, Information Retrieval
Psychiatrists Make Diagnoses, but not in Circumstances of Their Own Choosing: Agency and Structure in the "DSM."
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Spasser, Mark A. – Library Trends, 1998
Elaborates on a theoretical framework for analyzing the operation of the official classification system within the mental health professions. Uses the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) to explicate agency in structuration theory and structuration theory to illuminate the structure/use of the DSM. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Classification, Information Sources, Information Systems, Medical Research
The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification Systems.
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Bowker, Geoffrey C. – Library Trends, 1998
Examines some medical classification systems with a long history--notably the "International Classification of Diseases (ICD)." States that this classification scheme retains many traces of its own administrative and organizational past in its current form. Suggests that ICD, like other large-scale classification systems, performs so…
Descriptors: Classification, Information Management, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Social Constructs and Disease: Implications for a Controlled Vocabulary for HIV/AIDS.
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Huber, Jeffrey T.; Gillaspy, Mary L. – Library Trends, 1998
The body of knowledge associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) represents complexity not present in any other disease. A controlled vocabulary and classification structure used to organize the body of knowledge associated with HIV/AIDS is discussed. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Classification, Communicable Diseases
The Dynamics of Classification Systems as Boundary Objects for Cooperation in the Electronic Library.
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Albrechtsen, Hanne; Jacob, Elin K. – Library Trends, 1998
Libraries should be active participants in knowledge production, and should develop classificatory structures that support the needs of a diverse information ecology consisting of a complex web of interacting agents, users, and technologies. Within such an information ecology, a classificatory structure cannot follow a one-size-fits-all paradigm,…
Descriptors: Classification, Cooperative Programs, Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval