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Book Review: Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case
Author ORCID Identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6540-183 Document Type Book Review Keywords Stanley, Gerald (Farmer)--Trials, litigation, etc.; Boushie, Colten--Death and burial; Trials (Murder)--Saskatchewan; Self-defense (Law)--Saskatchewan; Rural crimes--Saskatchewan; Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Saskatchewan; Criminal justice, Administration of--Saskatchewan; Indigenous peoples--Saskatchewan--Social conditions; Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws,...
"OCUL Collaborative Futures (CF) Decolonizing Descriptions Working Grou" by Erin Johnson, F. Tim Knight et al.
Abstract The broad objective of the working group is to develop recommendations on how to make descriptive metadata in Omni, the Collaborative Futures (CF) shared library services platform, more accurately and respectfully reflect Indigenous Peoples, knowledges, and contexts. The following report was created by the OCUL-CF Decolonizing Descriptions Working Group and submitted to the OCUL-CF Metadata Management and Standards Committee as per its Terms of Reference.
Book Review: Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships
Document Type Book Review Keywords Indigenous peoples--Land tenure; Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.; Land tenure--Political aspects; Law use--Law and legislation; Canada Repository Citation Knight, F. Tim, "Book Review: Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships" (2022). Librarian Publications & Presentations. 51.
Term Circles: Using Linked Data as a Tool to Mitigate Colonial Subject Bias
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 50 Publication Date 4-5-2022 Keywords Subject cataloging; Libraries and indigenous peoples; Decolonization; Library metadata; Linked data; Discrimination in language Abstract This paper considers the Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) recommendation to “decolonize library access and classification” and begins by exploring the difficulty involved when addressing this recommendation working from within a colonial...
Book Review: Is Law Computable?: Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 49 Document Type Book Review Publication Date 12-2021 Keywords Artificial intellegence; Technology and law; Technological innovations Repository Citation Knight, F. Tim, "Book Review: Is Law Computable?: Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence" (2021). Librarian Publications & Presentations. 49.
Osgoode Digital Schoarship: Osgoode Digital Commons and SSRN Research Paper Series, Statistics 2021
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 48 Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 12-2021 Keywords Osgoode Digital Commons; Osgoode Legal Research Paper Series; digital scholarship; statistics Abstract Statistical overview of activity of Osgoode Digital Commons and Osgoode Legal Research Paper Series (SSRN) prepared for faculty meeting December 10, 2021. Repository Citation Knight, F.
"Using Linked Data to Mitigate Colonial Subject Bias" by F. Tim Knight
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 47 Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 8-18-2021 Keywords Linked data; Indigenous peoples--Canada; Subject headings; Discrimination Abstract This presentation is inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Report and Recommendations released by the Canadian Federation of Library Associations in April 2017.
"Open Access & Research Dissemination @ Osgoode" by F. Tim Knight and Yemisi Dina
Title Open Access & Research Dissemination @ Osgoode Publication Date 11-25-2020 Abstract Original Event: November 24, 2020 Presented by: Yemisi Dina and Tim Knight, Osgoode Library Recommended Citation Knight, F. Tim and Dina, Yemisi, "Open Access & Research Dissemination @ Osgoode" (2020). In the Know. 2. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/in_the_know/2
"Open Access & Research Dissemination @ Osgoode" by F. Tim Knight and Yemisi A. Dina
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 45 Authors F. Tim Knight, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow Yemisi A.
Book Review: Flawed Precedent: The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 44 Document Type Book Review Publication Date 5-2020 Keywords St. Catharine's Milling and Lumber Company--Trials, litigation, etc.; Ojibwa Indians--Ontario--Claims--Cases; Ojibwa Indians--Land tenure-Ontario-Cases; Land tenure--Law and legislation--Ontario--Cases; Indian title--Ontario--Cases; Ontario--Trials, litigation, etc. Repository Citation Knight, F.
"Worldviews, Term Circles, Linked Data" by F. Tim Knight
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 43 Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 1-29-2020 Keywords Indigenous worldviews; Linked data; Metadata Abstract The CFLA-FCAB Truth & Reconciliation Report advises that libraries address “structural biases” in knowledge organization.
W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Review of the Final Report
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 42 Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 12-15-2011 Abstract These slides are a distillation of the Final Report issued by the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group. Repository Citation Knight, F. Tim, "W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Review of the Final Report" (2011). Librarian Publications & Presentations. 42.
"Enhancements to HeinOnline Author Profiles" by F. Tim Knight
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 41 Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 8-23-2019 Repository Citation Knight, F. Tim, "Enhancements to HeinOnline Author Profiles" (2019). Librarian Publications & Presentations. 41. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/librarians/41 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Book Review: Who Owns the Moon?: Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 37 Document Type Book Review Publication Date 8-2012 Keywords Space law; Space mining--Law and legislation; Right of property; Lunar mining; Extraterrestrial property Abstract This is a review of Who Owns the Moon?: Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership by Virgiliu Pop (ISBN: 978-1-4020-9134-6) Repository Citation Knight, F.
Resource Description and Access: From AACR to RDA
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 33 Keywords Cataloging; Resource Description & Access Abstract The new cataloguing guidelines Resource Description and Access (RDA) have recently been released and are set to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. An evaluation period led by the Library of Congress is currently underway and it is likely that the implementation of RDA will begin sometime in mid- 2011.
Coming to a Library Near You" by F. Tim Knight and Darren Furey
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 35 Authors F. Tim Knight, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow Darren Furey, University of New Brunswick Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 5-8-2012 Keywords Cataloging; Resource Description & Access Abstract RDA (Resources Description and Access) is a new way to support resource discovery focusing on user tasks in the digital age.
Book Review: Describing Electronic, Digital and Other Media Using AACR2 and RDA
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 34 Document Type Book Review Keywords Cataloging; Resource Description & Access Repository Citation Knight, F. Tim, "Book Review: Describing Electronic, Digital and Other Media Using AACR2 and RDA" (2011). Librarian Publications & Presentations. 34. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/librarians/34 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
"Visualizing Linked Data" by F. Tim Knight
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 36 Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 7-23-2012 Keywords Linked data; Cataloging; Law libraries Abstract Provides an introduction to linked data considering ways to visualize and get a better understanding of this relatively new concept. Linked data is a different way for our bibliographic data to interact with the data available on the Web..
Words and Worldviews: Decolonizing Description
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Library > Librarians > 29 Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 5-28-2019 Keywords Indigenous peoples; Canada; Classification--Books; Subject headings, Library of Congress; Ethnophilosophy Abstract Recommendation #5 in the CFLA-FCAB Truth & Reconciliation Report advises that libraries address the “structural biases in existing schemes of knowledge organization and information retrieval arising from colonialism.” It suggests that one way...
Osgoode Digital Commons: Digital Repository Success Stories
Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 4-19-2018 Repository Citation Knight, F. Tim, "Osgoode Digital Commons: Digital Repository Success Stories" (2018). Librarian Publications & Presentations. 26. http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/librarians/26
Channeling Sandy Berman" by F. Tim Knight
As libraries explore new avenues of information access, the need for a critical evaluation of our bibliographic tools is more important than ever. With the potential of the emerging semantic web and the promise of linked data, how will systems originally designed to organize closed physical collections translate to an increasingly fragmented digital information space? How will deep-seated cultural biases affect access to a cross-cultural information environment?
"Linked Data and Canadian Legal Resources" by F. Tim Knight
Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 9-13-2013 Keywords linked data; legal resources; semantic web; Canada Abstract An overview of the basic theory and building blocks that support linked data; the growth of the so-called linked open data cloud; how this idea might be applied to legal resources and some of the challenges involved; and what organizations like CanLII can do to support linked data developments Repository Citation Knight, F.
Will Algorithms Become Law?" by F. Tim Knight
The paper looks at how the process of machine learning could be used to improve the regulation of human activity.
"Changing the Landscape of Scholarship" by Louis Mirando and F. Tim Knight
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Librarian Publications & Presentations
Document Type Conference Proceeding Publication Date 10-13-2016 Keywords Cataloging; Linked data; Resource description & access Abstract Beginning with the RDA ripples that are visible on the surface of the bibliographic data pool, this presentation reviews some highlights of the “new” cataloguing rules and explores the shifting perception of bibliographic data as we slowly drift toward a linked data future. Repository Citation Knight, F.
Arabes" by F. Tim Knight
Knight, F. Tim, "Book Review: Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques and Entanglements" (2013). Librarian Publications & Presentations. Paper 20. http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/librarians/20
"Converting MARC to RDF" by F. Tim Knight
Publication Date 5-13-2016 Abstract 5 steps to converting MARC bibliographic records to RDF Dublin Core. Repository Citation Knight, F. Tim, "Converting MARC to RDF" (2016). Librarian Publications & Presentations. Paper 19.http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/librarians/19
"Challenging Classification Bias with Linked Data" by Juliya Borie, F. Tim Knight et al.
Can library classification systems find new ways to deal with charges of bias? Can linked data contribute a more inclusive representation of diverse voices and communities? This panel will discuss the inherent biases present in cataloguing and classification, and consider the potential for linked data to provide a space to highlight and explore the challenging political issues that can arise in our work.
The Library and Linked Data" by F. Tim Knight
This article discusses the barriers that exist between library bibliographic data and other data available on the World Wide Web. The isolation of this bibliographic data is a problem that impacts on the successful integration of the library catalogue into the potential semantic Web of the future. It will look at two available data models for bibliographic data and introduces the Resource Description Framework (RDF) which has emerged as the preferred data model for enabling linked data on the Web.
Private Property and the Environment" by F. Tim Knight
Knight, F. Tim, "Book Review: Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment" (2016). Librarian Publications & Presentations. Paper 16. http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/librarians/16
A Research Report" by F. Tim Knight
In the summer of 2001 440 surveys were sent to a variety of law libraries in Canada. 183 were completed for a response rate of about 42%. Of these 84 were KF Modified users and 92% of these indicated that they were satisfied with the classification system. The results demonstrated that the KF Modified user base is quite stable with only 4 libraries reporting that they had switched from KF modified to some other system.
"The KF Modified Linked Data Project" by F. Tim Knight and Sarah Sutherland
Libraries have a lot of legacy data to bring to the linked data table. As the potential of the semantic web grows, it’s clear that controlled methods of organization will be critical for its success. This panel discusses two projects to take existing library cataloging and metadata standards and transform them for use as and within Linked Open Data platforms.
"KF Modified and the Classification of Canadian Common Law" by F. Tim Knight
Keywords Classification (Books); Law libraries Abstract This article was inspired by a previous article written by Vincent DeCaen in an earlier issue of CLLR. It explores classification, the different approaches taken by KF Modified and LC Class KE, and the role KF Modified has had in organizing collections in Canadian law libraries.
Deciphering KF Modified" by F. Tim Knight
Publication Date 10-27-2005 Keywords Classification (Books), Law libraries Abstract This presentation was delivered at the Conference for Ontario Law Association Libraries in 2005. It looks at the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) and the origins of the KF Modified classification scheme. It discusses the basic call number structure and introduces some of the special features of KF Modified (e.g. Geographic Divisions (G.D.s); Constitutional law; Taxation. Income tax).
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