The concept of genre in information studies

Andersen, Jack

doi:10.1002/aris.2008.1440420115

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“…Documentary genres have been the subject of research across a range of disciplines, including linguistics, communication, organisational studies (see, for instance , Santini 2008;Osterlund 2007;Yates and Orlikowski 2007) as well as information studies (a comprehensive review of library and information studies literature is provided by Andersen 2008). There is a lack of consensus in the literature relating to the definition of genre (Kim and Ross 2007), but it can be broadly defined as a socially recognised communication norm.…”

Section: Genre Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Documentary genre and digital recordkeeping: red herring or a way forward?

2008

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The purpose of this paper is to provide a preliminary assessment of the utility of the genre concept for digital recordkeeping. The exponential growth in the volume of records created since the 1940s has been a key motivator for the development of strategies that do not involve the review or processing of individual documents or files. Automation now allows processes at a level of granularity that is rarely, if at all, possible in the case of manual processes, without loss of cognisance of context. For this reason, it is timely to revisit concepts that may have been disregarded because of a perceived limited effectiveness in contributing anything to theory or practice. In this paper, the genre concept and its employability in the management of current and archival digital records are considered, as a form of social contextualisation of a document and as an attractive entry point of granularity at which to implement automation of appraisal processes. Particular attention is paid to the structurational view of genre and its connections with recordkeeping theory.

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Section: Genre Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Documentary genre and digital recordkeeping: red herring or a way forward?

2008

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“…(Orlikowski and Yates 1994, p. 543) Orlikowski and Yates's (1994) definition also adds a new dimension by clearly stressing that genres must be socially recognizable. In other words, genre classes exist only if they are identifiable by people in society (Andersen 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Crowdsourcing for web genre annotation

Asheghi

Sharoff

Markert

2016

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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Recently, genre collection and automatic genre identification for the web has attracted much attention. However, currently there is no genre-annotated corpus of web pages where inter-annotator reliability has been established, i.e. the corpora are either not tested for inter-annotator reliability or exhibit low inter-coder agreement. Annotation has also mostly been carried out by a small number of experts, leading to concerns with regard to scalability of these annotation efforts and transferability of the schemes to annotators outside these small expert groups. In this paper, we tackle these problems by using crowd-sourcing for genre annotation, leading to the Leeds Web Genre Corpus-the first web corpus which is, demonstrably reliably annotated for genre and which can be easily and cost-effectively expanded using naive annotators. We also show that the corpus is source and topic diverse.

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“…Since 2010, the Library of Congress has officially separated genre/form terms from its century-old Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), testifying to the increased recognition of genre's importance in information retrieval (Library of Congress, 2010). In a recent article, Andersen (2008) examines the concept of genre and genre-related research and calls for the genre approach to a full range of issues in LIS. He acknowledges three subdomains of LIS that have meaningfully dealt with genre: knowledge organization (KO), Web design, and digital communication.…”

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confidence: 99%