Overview
Barbara teaches in the areas of organization of information, theory of classification, and information science. She is especially interested in how classifications are translated from one culture or application to another. The purpose is to help support increasingly diverse contexts. Other ongoing research (with Kevin Crowston) includes investigating whether genre information can help in searching, and a project (with Carsten Oesterlund) on the nature of documents and documenting work.
Research Interests
Classification theory, documents and documentation, genre, issues in multicultural classification
Teaching Interests
classification, indexing, research methods, knowledge organization
Professional Interests
Primary professional association: Special Interest Group on Classification Research, ASIST. Co-founder and continuing participant of the SIG's annual Workshop on Classification Research. Also active in the International Society for Knowledge Organization, and member of the American Society of Indexers
Personal Interests
travel, fiber arts