Tennis B - Review

[nniiicc]

Tennis B Paper

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

Feedback to authors:

[kfenlon]

Decision: Accept

The abstract is persuasive about how the approach in this paper advances classification theory; and I look forward to hearing more about how the particular findings related to modeling ethnicity may be relevant to other application domains in conceptual modeling—something the paper hints at, suggesting the approach "moves our understanding of the conceptual models forward into a practice we have nodded to, but never embraced". The paper will benefit from additional detail about how the novel structural motivations identified for the inclusion and exclusion of categories reconcile with the notion that the divisions are motivated by political arguments/narratives; on the surface, these motivations strike me as being at odds. I am eager to learn more about the set of cases planned for discussion!

[akthom]

Decision (Accept, Reject, Lightning talk): Accept

Feedback to authors: This submission is interesting and well within scope of this workshop/a potential JASIST issue. The bringing together of classification theory, conceptual modeling, and the construction of racial categories is interesting and timely. Given the latter topic, it would potentially be useful to also draw on critical race studies, or other work on race and technology (e.g. recent work by Ruha Benjamin) as an additional lens, but I understand if that is beyond the scope of this present work. At the least, it could be interesting for the author to point to places for further bridges between these overlapping, yet historically siloed, literatures.