Including Authorial Stance in the Indexing of Scientific Documents

Abstract

Information Science & Communication Studies at Grenoble3University. She is a member of Gresec (research group in Information and Communication Studies, Grenoble, Stendhal University). Her research interests revolve mainly around information retrieval and indexing of scientific and professional discourse.Céline Paganelli is Associate Professor in Information & Communication Studies at Montpellier 3 University. She is a member of Gresec (research group in Information and Communication Studies, Grenoble, Stendhal University). Her research interests revolve mainly around information uses in professional context. She has studied scientists, bankers, and researchers' information practices, in particular.Clavier, Viviane, Paganelli, Céline. Including Authorial Stance in the Indexing of Scientific Documents. Knowledge Organization. 39(4), 292-299. 41 references.

Classifying Authorial Perspective

“…The BCC has an entire schedule of adjectival qualities that might be applied in this synthetic approach (Other general classifications that are enumerative in approach may have a less extensive list of stand-alone qualities to employ here.) Works about art might be distinguished as to whether they are works of connoisseurship, criticism, and so on (see Clavier and Paganelli 2011). Different aesthetic theories would be captured above under theory.…”

“…Information scientists have long recognized the potential benefits of classifying authorial perspective. In particular, this would help users evaluate the potential relevance of works (Clavier and Paganelli 2011). And of course it would alert users to potential biases in the text (Gutierrez and Martinez-Avila 2014).…”

Classifying for Social Diversity

“…Feinberg suggested that classificationists in particular should confess their perspective, but we might well propose that authors also could express this. Clavier and Paganelli (2012) argue that we should classify works by stance: criticism, agreement, consensus, and so on. A key challenge for the information scientist is that there are imperfect correlations across these dimensions: not all who apply feminist theory are female, and feminist theory is applied outside of gender studies.…”

Classifying the Humanities

“…What about humanities scholarship? Clavier and Paganelli (2012) argue that we should classify all works by authorial stance: criticism, agreement, consensus, and so on. It would seem that it would be useful to distinguish different texts about art:…”