Tennis A - Review

[nniiicc]

Tennis A Paper

Relevance to workshop (1-5): Potential for JASIST submission (1-5): Decision (Accept, Reject, Lightning talk):

Feedback to authors:

[kfenlon]

This paper is relevant to the workshop and JASIS&T special issue, particularly if the paper can tie the advances in understanding classification processes to sociotechnical implications for real-world systems or the potential impact on public knowledge, research, and scholarship. The unique angle of this paper, examining classification through the lens of method/process rather than product, would make for an interesting discussion. It will be helpful if the paper provides more context for the formal method of activity modeling, especially to relate and differentiate the method from others for modeling processes and workflows. Is IDEF0 particularly relevant to understanding classification as a process? The abstract speculates about potentially interesting outcomes—identifying gaps in classification processes, for example—but it would bring the paper closer to the heart of the CFP to be more concrete about whether and where these gaps exist in real-world classification practices and what their implications are. Of course I expect those issues will be addressed in the paper!

[organisciak]

Recommendation: 1) Accept 2) Lightning Talk There is much to develop with this proposal, but it's intriguing and enjoyable, the type of jolt that encourages a new way to understand a domain. The author adopts a unique lens for considering an important part of conceptual modeling history - the phases of Ranaganathan's work. It is difficult to judge whether it will be successful, but the potential contained in the development of this mapping of ideas through IDEF0 is promising and relevant.