Reading Lists

See also Semantic Gap readings

Digital Libraries and Archives: General Works

• Navigators for the digital ocean (2012): https://doi.org/10.1108/10650751211236596
• On a Collections as Data Imperative (2017): https://labs.loc.gov/static/labs/work/reports/tpadilla_OnaCollectionsasDataImperative_final.pdf
• Digital sources and digital archives: historical evidence in the digital age (2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-020-00028-7
• Machine Learning + Libraries: A Report on the State of the Field (2020): https://labs.loc.gov/static/labs/work/reports/Cordell-LOC-ML-report.pdf
• Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning: Final Report (2021): https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021.04.09-emerging-technologies-final-report.pdf
• Teaching with Primary Sources: Looking at the Support Needs of Instructors (2021): https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/teaching-with-primary-sources/
• Archival Records and Training in the Age of Big Data (2018): https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-28302018000044B010
• Computational Thinking in Archival Science Research and Education (2019): https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData47090.2019.9005682

Digital Libraries and Archives: Techniques of Automatic Indexing, Feature Annotation and Entity Extraction

• Reframing Digital Curation Practices through a Computational Thinking Framework (2019): https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData47090.2019.9006485
• TIB's Portal for Audiovisual Media: Combining Manual and Automatic Indexing (2014): https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2014.917135
• Indexing concepts and/or named entities (2011): http://dx.doi.org/10.4403/jlis.it-4707
• Named Entity Recognition Approaches and Their Comparison for Custom NER Model (2020): https://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2020.1759479
• From subtitles to substantial metadata: examining characteristics of named entities and their role in indexing (2019): https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s00799-018-0252-z
• Image annotation: then and now (2018): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2018.09.017
• Exploiting named entity recognition for improving syntactic-based web service discovery (2019): https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0165551518793321
• Semantic Enrichment of Linked Archival Materials (2019): https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2019-7-530
• Medieval Spanish (12th–15th centuries) named entity recognition and attribute annotation system based on contextual information (2021): https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24399
• Alts, Abbreviations, and AKAs: Historical Onomastic Variation and Automated Named Entity Recognition (2017): https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2017.1307304 (Author preprint)

Critical, Legal, and Other Issues in Digital Libraries and Archives

• Collections as data: Implications for enclosure (2018): https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/17003/18751
• Compounded Mediation: A Data Archaeology of the Newspaper Navigator Dataset (2020): https://mla.hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:32415/

Theories in the Organization of Information: General Works

• Logic and Librarianship (2017): https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783956503269-279/logic-and-librarianship
• Logic and the Organization of Information (2012): Google books (Ebook format available via UA Catalog)
• The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization (2000): Google books (Ebook format available via UA Catalog)
• ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization

  - Hierarchy (2021): https://www.isko.org/cyclo/hierarchy

  - Indexing Concepts and Theory (2018): https://www.isko.org/cyclo/indexing

• The Discipline of Organizing 4th edition (2016): In multiple versions: https://ischools.org/Discipline-of-Organizing

  - Case Studies https://ischools.org/Discipline-of-Organizing-Case-Studies

Theories in the Organization of Information: Collections

• A logic-based framework for collection/item metadata relationships (2018): https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2018-0017
• The HathiTrust Research Center Workset Ontology: A Descriptive Framework for Non-Consumptive Research Collections (2016): http://doi.org/10.5334/johd.3
• Are collections sets? (2011): https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.2011.14504801145
• The materiality of digital collections: Theoretical and historical perspectives (2006): https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2006.0042
• What is a collection? (2000): https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1018%3E3.0.CO;2-T
• What is a collection? (2005): https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12480
• Approaching the Anti-Collection (2011): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/433357
• Shared Collection Development, Digitization, and Owned Digital Collections (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2019.1566107

Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Organization of Information: Closed System (Book) Indexing

• Criteria for Indexes (NISO Z39.4-202X - 2019-21): https://groups.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/24766/NISO_Z39.4_Criteria_for_Indexes_Draft_For_Public_Comment.pdf
• E-text (2017): https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/269289421.pdf
• Document indexing - providing a basis for semantic document annotation (2006): https://fizweb-p.fiz-karlsruhe.de/sites/default/files/FIZ/Dokumente/Forschung/ISE/Publications/Conferences-Workshops/2006_Peter_xmltage2006.pdf
• Open-system versus closed-system indexing: A vital distinction (2002): https://www.theindexer.org/files/23-1/23-1_023.pdf
• Visualizing back-of-book indexes (2012): https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2012.6
• From Index to Network: Topic Maps in the Enhanced Networked Monographs Project (2019): https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2019.3 (Author preprint)
• Topic maps and the essence of indexing (2018): https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2018.60
• Indexes as hypertext (2015): https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/article/47252
• Indexing and Information Design (2017): Chapter 32 in Information Design: Research and Practice (Ebook available via UA Libraries catalog)
• The medium is not the message: Topic maps and the separation of presentation and content in indexes (2008): https://doi.org/doi:10.3828/indexer.2008.16
• Indexing: A User's Perspective (2002): https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.33.4.230
• Collection Development and the Historical Record: Are We Forgetting Monographs as Primary Sources? (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2019.1597798
• Scriptures & Ancient Sources: Indexing Best Practices (2020): https://potomacindexing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Scripture-AncDocsBPsIndexing_2e.pdf
• Low Findability and Discoverability: Four Testing Methods to Identify the Causes (2019): https://www.nngroup.com/articles/navigation-ia-tests/

Theoretical Issues in the Organization of Information: Indexing Image Collections

• Hidden Collections, Scholarly Barriers: Creating Access to Unprocessed Special Collections Materials in America’s Research Libraries (2004): https://rbm.acrl.org/index.php/rbm/article/view/230
• Improving access and “unhiding” the special collections (2017): https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2017.1329178
• Rethinking image indexing? (2017): https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23812 (Author preprint)
• Data modeling and evaluation of deep semantic annotation for cultural heritage images (2021): https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2020-0102
• Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives (2019): https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2019.00004
• Disrupting the metanarrative: a little history of image indexing and retrieval (2019): https://doi.org/doi:10.5771/0943-7444-2019-1-4 (Author preprint)
• Some issues in the indexing of images (1994): <583::AID-ASI13>3.0.CO;2-N https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199409)45:8<583::AID-ASI13>3.0.CO;2-N
• Panofsky - Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939): Introductory section (PDF) / Internet Archive

Theoretical Issues in the Organization of Information: Indexing Time-based Media Collections

• Moving Image Indexing (2017): https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1081/E-ELIS4-120043268/moving-image-indexing-james-turner
• From ABC to http: The Effervescent evolution of indexing for audiovisual materials (2010): https://doi.org/10.1080/01639370903341919
• Cataloguing Practices in the Age of Linked Open Data: Wikidata and Wikibase for Film Archives (2020): https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/E-Resources/Cataloguing-Practices-Linked-Open-Data.html
• Introducing Multimedia Information Retrieval to libraries (2016): https://www.jlis.it/article/view/11530
• Film and Video Analysis in the Digital Humanities – An Interdisciplinary Dialog (2020): http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/4/000532/000532.html
• Exploring Digitised Moving Image Collections: The SEMIA Project, Visual Analysis and the Turn to Abstraction (2020): http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/4/000497/000497.html
• Enriching and enhancing moving images with Linked Data (2018): https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2017-0106
• ArDO: an ontology to describe the dynamics of multimedia archival records (2021): https://doi.org/10.1145/3412841.3442057

Theoretical Issues in the Organization of Information: Cataloging

• Cataloging Theory in Search of Graph Theory and Other Ivory Towers (2011): https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/download/1868/1706/0
• Enhanced Discovery with Linked Open Data for Library Digital Collections (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2020.1854575
• IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) (2017): https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11412
• Hierarchical Relationships in the Bibliographic Universe (2013): https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2012.749969
• FRBR: Application of the Model to Textual Documents (2018): https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/6747/9168
• Extending the LRM Model to Integrating Resources (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2021.1876802
• Breaking Records: The History of Bibliographic Records and Their Influence in Conceptualizing Bibliographic Data (2015): https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2014.960988
• From Bibliographic Records to Data: Changes in the Library Environment with the Application of Linked Open Data Technologies (2014): https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/article/full-text-pdf/117430
• Bibliographic records in an online environment (2013): http://informationr.net/ir/18-3/colis/paperC42.html

Collocation

• Chapter Two: "Bibliographic Objectives" in The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization (2000): Google books
• Work (IEKO entry 2018): https://www.isko.org/cyclo/work
• A Critique of the FRBR User Tasks and Their Modifications (2017): https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2016.1254698
• ISNI and traditional authority work (2020): https://www.jlis.it/article/view/12554/11378
• Uniform Titles From AACR to RDA (2008): https://doi.org/10.1080/01639370802322853
• FRBRization of a Library Catalog: Better Collocation of Records, Leading to Enhanced Search, Retrieval, and Display (2008): https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/3260
• All in the Family: Cataloging the Alice Hoffman Collection (2020): https://doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2020.1810440
• The Representation of a Multimedia Franchise as a Single Entity: Contrasting Existing Bibliographic Entities With Web-Based Superwork Portrayals (2018): https://www.libres-ejournal.info/files/2019/05/LIBRESv28i2p40-57.KiryakosSugimoto.2018.pdf
• Diversity and the Post-Colonial Law Library (2019): https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669619000367

Genette

• Paratexts: thresholds of interpretation (1987): https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/genette_gerard_paratexts_thresholds_of_interpretation.pdf
• Paratext (2020): https://www.isko.org/cyclo/paratext
• Material Approaches to Exploring the Borders of Paratext (2017): https://www.jstor.org/stable/26662794
• Paratextualityin Manuscript and Print (dissertation 2020): https://www.utupub.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/149454/AnnalesB512Liira.pdf
• Paratext – a useful concept for the analysis of digital documents? (2019): https://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/16974
• The paratext of digital documents (2021): https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JD-06-2020-0106/full/html
• Hyperparatextuality: Meaning-making in the digital reading frame (2020): https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/btwo/2020/00000010/00000001/art00003 (Author preprint available)
• FRBR, Information, and Intertextuality (2015): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/579346
• Genette, Intertextuality, and Knowledge Organization (2014): https://www.ergon-verlag.de/isko_ko/downloads/aiko_vol_14_2014_48.pdf
• Intertextuality and the Semantic Web: Jane Eyre as a test case for modelling literary relationships with Linked Data (2011): https://serials.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/24160/

Paratext and text navigation

• Paratext and Digitized Narrative: Mapping the Field (2013): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/494294/summary
• Noses in Books: Orientation,Immersion, and Paratext(2015): https://doi.org/10.1179/0308018814Z.000000000102
• The Peritextual Literacy Framework: Using the Functions of Peritext to Support Critical Thinking (2017): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740818816301190 (Open access preprint)

Infrastructure

• The Ethnography of Infrastructure (1999): https://www.imtfi.uci.edu/files/articles/Star.pdf
• Scaffolding, Hard and Soft – Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures (2016): https://spheres-journal.org/contribution/scaffolding-hard-and-soft-infrastructures-as-critical-and-generative-structures/
• The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure (2013): https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522
• (Re)narrating the societal cyborg: a definition of infrastructure, an interrogation of integration (2017): https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2017.7663283698

Semantic Web Studies/Theories

• Semantic web or web of data? a diachronic study (1999 to 2017) of the publications of tim berners‐lee and the world wide web consortium (2019): https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.24111 (Open access at ResearchGate)
• A Turn for the Scruffy: An Ethnographic Study of Semantic Web Architecture (2017): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3091478.3091505
• A Review of the Semantic Web Field (2021): https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/2/250085-a-review-of-the-semantic-web-field/fulltext
• Knowledge Graphs (2021): https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250711-knowledge-graphs/fulltext

Semantic Web Monographs

• Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies (2009): http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~dstepano/KRSW/literature/SWTechnologies.pdf

Overlays

• An Introduction to Overlay Journals (2009) https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/19081/1/19081.pdf
• New journal models and publishing perspectives in the evolving digital environment (2010): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0340035209359559
• The Effect of Next-Generation Catalogs on Catalogers and Cataloging Functions in Academic Libraries (2011): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639374.2011.559899
• VuFind: A NextGen Overlay (2014): https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/2014/00000016/00000002/art00016

Cyberphysical Systems

• Industrial revolution 4.0: implication to libraries and librarians (2019): https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/LHTN-05-2019-0033/full/html
• A general Cyber–Physical framework for academic library (2017): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10586-017-1115-x
• All articles in Library Hi Tech Volume 38 Issue 1 (2020): https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0737-8831/vol/38/iss/1

Controlled Digital Lending

• Future_Thinking: ASERL's Resource_Guide to Controlled Digital Lending for Research Libraries (2021): http://www.aserl.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Future_Thinking__ASERL_CDL_Resource_Guide__PDF.pdf

Revolutions and Paradigms (sic)

• Framing a discussion on paradigm shift(s) in the field of information (2021): https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24404
• Arguments for 'the bibliographical paradigm'. Some thoughts inspired by the new English edition of the UDC (2007): http://informationr.net/ir/12-4/colis/colis06.html

Dissertations and Theses of Interest

• Models of the bibliographic universe (2017): Monash University (AU)
• Linked Data Supported Information Retrieval (2018): FIZ Karlsruhe
• Towards a General Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Aggregates: Four Case Studies from Our Bibliographic Standards (2019): University of Illinois

Wikibase

• The WikiLibrary Manifesto

  - IFLA signs the WikiLibrary Manifesto

• Use cases for institutional Wikibase instances
• Federation