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Viewpoint: Hetero-ontologies and taxonomies in the wild

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2021

Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker*
Affiliation:
Distinguished Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 300 North Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA90095-1520, USA Email: [email protected]
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Extract

An optimistic spirit of progressive pluralism accompanied early digital work in the arts and humanities. The singular “universe” of knowledge would be amplified into a “multiverse” through faceted approaches embodying varied cultural—and even individual–viewpoints. Precisely how this utopian ideal was to be realized—through customized search or fluid ontologies or other semantic web technology—was not clear. But the motivations combined creative impulses for decolonizing and diversifying information systems.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 36 - 39
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of ARLIS

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References

1. The phrase references the work of Day, Ronald, The Modern Invention of Information (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008)Google Scholar.

2. Orlando Project, Cambridge University Press http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/; see also, Feinberg, Melanie, “The Value of Discernment: Making use of interpretive flexibility in metadata generation and aggregation.” Information Research, Vol. 22, No.1, March, 2017Google Scholar.

3. Johanna Drucker, ArtistsBooksOnline, “Tag Descriptions.” http://www.artistsbooksonline.org/tagDescriptionsAlpha.html

4. Berman, Sanford, Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1971)Google Scholar.