Information Organization & Retrieval
Our Specialties
Archival Arrangement and Description
Faculty Expert
Dr. Karen Gracy Dr. Heather Soyka
Explore our faculty’s work in Archival Arrangement and Description
- Gracy, K. F. (2015). Archival description and linked data: A preliminary study of opportunities and implementation challenges. Archival Science, 15 , 239-254.
- Gracy, K. F., & Lambert, F. (2014). Who’s ready to surf the next wave? A study of perceived challenges to implementing new and revised standards for archival description. American Archivist, 77(1), 96-132.
Cataloging
Faculty Experts
Dr. Meghan Harper Dr. Athena Salaba 
Explore our faculty’s work in Cataloging
- Chan, L. M., & Salaba, A. (2016). Cataloging and classification: An introduction (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Classification
Faculty Experts
Dr. Athena Salaba Dr. Marcia Zeng
Cross-language Information Retrieval
Faculty Expert
Discovery Systems
Faculty Experts
Dr. Lala Hajibayova Dr. Athena Salaba
Explore our faculty’s work in Discovery Systems
- Buente, W., Baybayan, C., Hajibayova, L., McCorkhill, M., & Panchyshyn, R. (2020). Exploring the renaissance of wayfinding and voyaging through the lens of knowledge representation, organization and discovery systems. Journal of Documentation, 76(6), 1279-1293.
Indexing
Faculty Expert
Explore Our Faculty's Work in Indexing
- Salaba, A. (2009). End-user understanding of indexing language information. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 47(1), 23-51.
Interactive Information Retrieval
Faculty Experts
Dr. Athena Salaba Dr. Catherine Smith
Explore Our Faculty’s Work in Interactive Information Retrieval
- Smith, C. L., Gwizdka, J., & Feild, H. (2017). The use of query auto-completion over the course of search sessions with multifaceted information needs. Information Processing & Management, 53(5), 1139–1155.
Linked Data
Faculty Experts
Dr. Marcia Zeng Dr. Karen Gracy
Explore our faculty’s work in Linked Data
- Gracy, K. F. (2018). Enriching and enhancing moving images with Linked Data: An exploration in the alignment of metadata models. Journal of Documentation, 74(2), 354-371.
- Hajibayova, L. (2013). News, blog, ecommerce: Does genre matter for taggers? Transition cultures, transition KO: Evolving exploration, critical reflection, and practical work. In Proceedings of the Fourth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2013).
Metadata
Faculty Experts
Dr. Marcia Zeng Dr. Athena Salaba Dr. Karen Gracy 
Explore our faculty’s work in Metadata
- Salaba, A. & Tennis, J. T. (2018). Solid foundations and some secondary assumptions in the design of bibliographic metadata: Toward a typology of complementary uses of metadata. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, Porto, Portugal, 9-11 July 2018. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.
- Zeng, M. L. & Qin, J. (2021). Metadata (3rd ed.). ALA Neal-Schuman.
- Zeng, M., Gracy, K. F., & M. Žumer. (2014). Using a semantic analysis tool to generate subject access points: A study using Panofsky’s Theory and two research samples. Knowledge Organization, 41(6).
- Zeng, M. L., Gracy, K. F., & Skirvin, L. (2013). Navigating the intersection of library bibliographic data and linked music information sources: A case study in metadata alignment. Journal of Library Metadata, 13(2-3), 254-278.
Ontologies
Faculty Expert
Taxonomies
Faculty Experts
Dr. Marcia Zeng Dr. Athena Salaba
User-generated Tags
Faculty Experts
Explore Our Faculty’s Work in User-Generated Tags
- Hajibayova, L., & Jacob, E. K. (2016). An investigation of the levels of abstraction of tags across three resource genres. Information Processing & Management, 52(6), 1178-1187.
- Hajibayova, L., & Jacob, E. K. (2015). Factors influencing user-generated vocabularies: How basic are basic level terms? Knowledge Organization, 42(2), 102-112.
