Epistemic Warrant for Categorizational Activities and the Development of Controlled Vocabularies Articles uri icon

authors

  • MARTINEZ AVILA, DANIEL
  • Budd, John M

publication date

  • July 2017

start page

  • 700

end page

  • 715

issue

  • 4

volume

  • 73

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-0418

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1758-7379

abstract

  • The purpose of this paper is to update and review the concept of warrant in Library and Information Science (LIS) and to introduce the concept of epistemic warrant from philosophy. Epistemic warrant can be used to assess the content of a work; and therefore, it can be a complement to existing warrants, such as literary warrant, in the development of controlled vocabularies. In this proposal, the authors aim to activate a theoretical discussion on warrant in order to revise and improve the validity of the concept of warrant from the user and classifier context to the classificationist context.

keywords

  • knowledge organization; categorization; epistemology; warrant; epistemic warrant; literary warrant