Synthetic Ethos: The Believability of Collections at the Intersection of Classification and Curation

Feinberg, Melanie

doi:10.1080/01972243.2012.708709

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“…In information studies, rhetorical analysis has been used to understand the persuasiveness of classification schemes, the construction of taste via Netflix alt-genres, and Q&A discussion boards (Feinberg, 2012;Lawrence, 2015;Savolainen, 2014). Our case study follows a similar approach.…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

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What does it mean to adopt a metadata standard? A case study of Omeka and the Dublin Core

Maron

Feinberg

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to employ a case study of the Omeka content management system to demonstrate how the adoption and implementation of a metadata standard (in this case, Dublin Core) can result in contrasting rhetorical arguments regarding metadata utility, quality, and reliability. In the Omeka example, the author illustrate a conceptual disconnect in how two metadata stakeholders – standards creators and standards users – operationalize metadata quality. For standards creators such as the Dublin Core community, metadata quality involves implementing a standard properly, according to established usage principles; in contrast, for standards users like Omeka, metadata quality involves mere adoption of the standard, with little consideration of proper usage and accompanying principles. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses an approach based on rhetorical criticism. The paper aims to establish whether Omeka’s given ends (the position that Omeka claims to take regarding Dublin Core) align with Omeka’s guiding ends (Omeka’s actual argument regarding Dublin Core). To make this assessment, the paper examines both textual evidence (what Omeka says) and material-discursive evidence (what Omeka does). Findings The evidence shows that, while Omeka appears to argue that adopting the Dublin Core is an integral part of Omeka’s mission, the platform’s lack of support for Dublin Core implementation makes an opposing argument. Ultimately, Omeka argues that the appearance of adopting a standard is more important than its careful implementation. Originality/value This study contributes to our understanding of how metadata standards are understood and used in practice. The misalignment between Omeka’s position and the goals of the Dublin Core community suggests that Omeka, and some portion of its users, do not value metadata interoperability and aggregation in the same way that the Dublin Core community does. This indicates that, although certain values regarding standards adoption may be pervasive in the metadata community, these values are not equally shared amongst all stakeholders in a digital library ecosystem. The way that standards creators (Dublin Core) understand what it means to “adopt a standard” is different from the way that standards users (Omeka) understand what it means to “adopt a standard.”

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What does it mean to adopt a metadata standard? A case study of Omeka and the Dublin Core

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Feinberg

2018

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“…In our analysis, we discuss both similarities with our proposed SICC framework, and where possible gaps in these approaches might be better addressed by incorporating an SICC approach. To develop our analysis, we have closely read these processes (Feinberg, 2012) through online documentation, research articles, and interviews that discuss these approaches. Our analysis is also informed by the approach of Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA), which "applies critical cultural and, importantly, technocultural theories to ICT artifacts" (Sweeney & Brock, 2014, p. 3).…”

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The Usage and Impact of ICTs during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Yang¹,

Zhu²,

Fichman³

2023

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This book takes a holistic view of the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) during the pandemic through the lens of social informatics, as it is critical to our understanding of the relations between society and technology. Specific attention is given to various stakeholders and social contexts, with analysis at the individual, group, community, and society levels.Pushing the boundaries of information science research with timely and critical research questions, this edited volume showcases information science research in the context of COVID-19, by specifically accentuating sociotechnical practices, activities, and ICT interventions during the pandemic. Its social informatics focus appeals to a broad audience, and its global and international orientation provides a timely, innovative, and much-needed perspective to information science. This book is unique in its interdisciplinary nature as it consists of research studies on the intersections between ICTs and health, culture, social interaction, civic engagement, information dissemination, work, and education. Chapters apply a range of research methods, including questionnaire surveys, content analyses, and case studies from countries in Asia, Europe, and America, as well as global and international comparisons.The book's primary target audience includes scholars and students in information and library science, particularly those interested in the social aspect of the information society. It may be of interest to information professionals, library practitioners, educators, and information policymakers, as well as scholars and students in science and technology studies, cultural studies, political science, public administration, sociology, and communication studies.

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“…Melissa Adler's critical classification project introduces a whole new set of contemporary post-structural theoretical positions in the revealing of biases in LCC concerning gender, sexuality and race, most prominently expressed in her book Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (2017). In the second project, Melanie Feinberg presents a series of studies on classification systems using classic methods and concepts such as Rhetoric (Feinberg, 2010;Feinberg, 2011), and Ethos (Feinberg, 2012).…”

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Bringing Political Upheaval and Cultural Trauma into Order: A Document-Theoretical Approach to the Social Significance of Bibliographic Classification Systems

Hansson¹

2021

Proc Docam

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This paper explores the ability to define bibliographic classification systems as socially significant documents in a way that goes beyond their immediate function in the information retrieval process. It does so in dialog with theory on documents and documentality, and knowledge organization theory. Two examples show how development of new classification systems address social and cultural structures in periods of rapid social and cultural change and crisis. The first example discusses the design of a classification system for Swedish public libraries in the late 1910s, and the second addresses the re-formulation of the Holocaust experience in American Jewish library classification practice in the 1950s and 1960s. Results indicate that social significance to classification systems influence the definition their institutional context in relation to wider social issues and movements. The character of this influence suggests research on documentality needs to address the relation between form and content in documents defined as reifications of social acts.

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Synthetic Ethos: The Believability of Collections at the Intersection of Classification and Curation

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

What does it mean to adopt a metadata standard? A case study of Omeka and the Dublin Core

What does it mean to adopt a metadata standard? A case study of Omeka and the Dublin Core

The Usage and Impact of ICTs during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Bringing Political Upheaval and Cultural Trauma into Order: A Document-Theoretical Approach to the Social Significance of Bibliographic Classification Systems

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