Teaching

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.

Research

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 8^th 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 13^th 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 7^th 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)

Service

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

Blogs

• 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.