Dr. D. Grant Campbell North Campus Building
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My primary teaching is in information organization in the Master of Library Science Program, as well as the Information Retrieval course for the MIT Program. My current and recent teaching assignments include:
MIT 026: Introduction to Information Retrieval
LIS 502: The Organization of Information
LIS 545: Descriptive Cataloguing Theory and Practice
LIS 593: Classification and Indexing
LIS 726: Markup and Metadata
In my teaching, I try to bridge the gap between librarianship and the broader community of information science; I try to make concepts of information organization accessible and available to students at very different levels of expertise.
Current Research Grants:
A Discourse Analysis of the
Semantic Web.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2004-2007
This project will compare traditional library information systems and the emerging standards of the Semantic Web, by analyzing the differences between the standards and protocols that support the two systems. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of archaeology as a theoretical framework, the project will closely examine the ways in which the primary activities of information organization and retrieval—information representation, description, classification and exchange—are differently defined by the standards which will regulate how these activities will take place. By treating the advent of the Semantic Web as a major historical discontinuity in the history of information services, the project will show how new standards such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL) are changing our conception of information systems from a paradigm based on central control to a paradigm based on evolution and emergence. The project will therefore provide important insights to the library community, in determining its role in the new information environment that lies ahead; to the Semantic Web community as it makes important decisions in the development of its nascent standards and protocols; and to society at large as it struggles to define, through legislation and activism, how it wishes the World Wide Web to reflect social values.
Selected Publications:
1. Campbell,
D. Grant. “A Queer Eye for the Faceted Guy: How a Universal Classification
Principle can be Applied to a Distinct Subculture.” Knowledge Organization
and the Global Information Society: Proceedings of the 8th
International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge
Organization, London, U.K., 13-16 July 2004. In Press.
Research Focus: Classification
2. Campbell,
D. Grant. “The Metadata-Bibliographic Organization Nexus.” Metadata
Applications and Management. Ed. G. E. Gorman and Daniel G. Dorner.
London: Facet Publishing, 2004: 185-203.
Research Focus: Metadata
3. Campbell,
D. Grant and Fast, Karl V. “Panizzi, Lubetzky and Google: How the Modern Web
Environment is Reinventing the Theory of Cataloguing.” Canadian Journal for
Information and Library Science. Accepted, April 2004. Forthcoming.
Research Focus: Metadata
4. Campbell, D. Grant and Fast, Karl V. “Academic Libraries and the Semantic Web: What the Future May Hold for Research-Supporting Library Catalogues.” Journal of Academic Librarianship. September, 2004. In Press. Research Focus: Electronic Text Design, Metadata
5. Campbell,
D. Grant. “Global Abstractions: The Classification of International Economic
Data for Bibliographic and Statistical Purposes.” Cataloging &
Classification Quarterly 37 (2003): 221-234. Also published as a chapter in
Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information
Retrieval. Ed. Nancy J. Williamson and Clare Beghtol. New York: Haworth
Press, 2004: 221-234.
Research Focus: Classification
6. Campbell,
D. Grant. “Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Bibliographic Classification
Research.” Reconceptualizing Classification Research: Proceedings of the 13th
Annual Classification Research Workshop. Ed. Jens-Erik Mai. ASIST, 2003.
In Press.
Research Focus: Classification
7. Campbell,
D. Grant. “Semantic Markup for Literary Scholars: How Descriptive Markup
Affects the Study and Teaching of Literature.” Proceedings of the 2002
Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
ASIST, 2002.
Research Focus: Electronic Text Design
8. Campbell,
D. Grant. “The Use of the Dublin Core in Web Annotation Programs.”
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Dublin Core: Metadata for
e-Communities 2002: 105-110.
Research Focus: Electronic Text Design, Metadata
9. Campbell,
D. Grant. “Chronotope and Classification: How Space-Time Configurations Affect
the Gathering of Industrial Statistical Data.” Proceedings of the 7th
International Congress of the International Society for Knowledge Organization.
Granada: July, 2002. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2002: 318-323.
Research Focus: Classification
10. Fast,
Karl V. and Campbell, D. Grant. “The Ontological Perspectives of the Semantic
Web and the Metadata Harvesting Protocol: Applications of Metadata for Improving
Internet Search.” Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science 26
(4) 2001: 5-19.
Research Focus: Electronic Text Design, Metadata
11. Campbell,
Grant. “William Collins During World War II: Nationalism Meets a Wartime
Economy in Canadian Publishing.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of
Canada Spring, 2001.
Research Focus: Information and Technology
12. Campbell,
Grant. “Queer Theory and the Creation of Contextualized Subject Access Tools
for Gay and Lesbian Communities.” Knowledge Organization 27 (2001):
122-131.
Research Focus: Classification
13. Campbell,
D. Grant. “Straining the Standards: How Cataloging Websites for Curriculum
Support Poses Fresh Problems for the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules.”
Journal of Internet Cataloging 3 (2000): 79-92.
Research Focus: Metadata
14.
Campbell, Grant. “The Relevance of Traditional
Classification Principles to the Development and Use of Semantic Markup
Languages for Electronic Text.” Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge
Organization: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the
International Society for Knowledge Organization. Ed. Clare Beghtol, Lynne
C. Howarth, and Nancy Williamson. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2000.
Research Focus: Electronic Text Design, Classification
15. Toms,
Elaine G. and D. Grant Campbell. “Genre as Interface Metaphor: Exploiting Form
and Function in Digital Documents.” Proceedings of the Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences. IEEE, 1999.
Research Focus: Electronic Text Design
16. Campbell,
Grant. “Starry Wheels and Watch Fiends: Clocks and Timepieces in William
Blake’s Milton.” Lumen 17 (1998): 165-174.
Research Focus: Information and Technology (Literary Studies)
I currently serve on:
The Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Faculty of Information and Media Studies
The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Information and Media Studies
The Research Committee (Alternate), Faculty of Information and Media Studies
The Canadian Committee on
Cataloguing
Previous Service:
Secretary for the Canadian Association for Information Science
Program Chair for the 2001 Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science
MLIS Program Committee, FIMS
Doctoral Program Committee, FIMS
Appointments Committee, FIMS
Alzheimer's: A weblog devoted to information I've accumulated on Alzheimer's Disease, assembled for research interest and for family reasons.
Metadata: I allowed this blog to lapse, unfortunately, but I have hopes of reviving it. It's devoted to metadata issues as they relate to my research on the Semantic Web.
Ellis: This is my informal blog about movies I've seen and books I've read.