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Library of Congress Subject Headings and Controversial Perspectives: Mapping Relationships to Reveal Meaning

Clarke, Rachel Ivy; Rosenblad, Ann

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/103298

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Title
Library of Congress Subject Headings and Controversial Perspectives: Mapping Relationships to Reveal Meaning
Author(s)
  • Clarke, Rachel Ivy
  • Rosenblad, Ann
Issue Date
2019-03-15
Keyword(s)
  • Thesaural relationships
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Critical analysis
  • Information visualization
Abstract
Language has increasingly emerged as a tool to obfuscate problematic topics. Given the role of language in resource description, we explore how controlled vocabularies contribute to or refute the obfuscation of controversial perspectives. This exploratory project uses information visualization to identify links and pathways between two Library of Congress Subject Headings: White supremacy movements and Racism. The interactive visual presentation will exhibit these maps, which support identification and analysis of key concepts and recurrent relationships to reveal embedded meaning.
Publisher
iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2019 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/103298
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103298
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2019 Rachel Ivy Clarke and Ann Rosenblad

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