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  • × author_ss:"Campbell, G."
  • × year_i:[2000 TO 2010}
  1. Campbell, G.: Chronotope and classification : how space-time configurations affect the gathering of industrial statistical data (2003) 0.01 
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    Abstract
    Bakhtin's theory of the chronotope is used to examine how representations of space and time affect the first six classes of the North American Industrial Classification System. By examining the class sequence as a narrative of the product life cycle, the study suggests that this new classification system, designed to harmonize the gathering of statistical data among the three countries of North America, manifests an economic paradigm which diminishes the visibility of community ties based an geographical proximity, community identity, and communication across social and economic barriers.
  2. Campbell, G.: Queer theory and the creation of contextual subject access tools for gay and lesbian communities (2000) 0.01 
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    Abstract
    Knowledge organization research has come to question the theoretical distinction between "aboutness" (a document's innate content) and "meaning" (the use to which a document is put). This distinction has relevance beyond Information Studies, particularly in relation to homosexual concerns. Literary criticism, in particular, frequently addresses the question: when is a work "about" homosexuality? This paper explores this literary debate and its implications for the design of subject access systems for gay and lesbian communities. By examining the literary criticism of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, particularly in relation to the theories of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in The Epistemology of the Closet (1990), this paper exposes three tensions that designers of gay and lesbian classifications and vocabularies can expect to face. First is a tension between essentialist and constructivist views of homosexuality, which will affect the choice of terms, categories, and references. Second is a tension between minoritizing and universalizing perspectives on homosexuality. Third is a redefined distinction between aboutness and meaning, in which aboutness refers not to stable document content, but to the system designer's inescapable social and ideological perspectives. Designers of subject access systems can therefore expect to work in a context of intense scrutiny and persistent controversy
  3. Campbell, G.: ¬A queer eye for the faceted guy : how a universal classification principle can be applied to a distinct subculture (2004) 0.01 
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    Abstract
    The results of a small qualitative study of gay and lesbian information users suggest that facet analysis as it is increasingly practised in the field of information architecture provides a promising avenue for improving information access to gay and lesbian information resources. Findings indicated that gay and lesbian information users have an acute sense of categorization grounded in the need to identify gay-positive physical and social spaces, and in their finely-honed practices of detecting gay "facets" to general information themes. They are also, however, very flexible and adaptable in their application of gay-related facet values, which suggests that browsing systems will have to be designed with considerable care.

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