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Org. 51(2024)No.8  \nJ. Bullard. Provocations of Process in Critical Knowledge Organization Work  \n\n| Provocations of Process in Critical Knowledge Organization Work\u003Cbr>Julia Bullard\u003Cbr>University of British Columbia, 470-1961 East Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1 [julia.bullard@ubc.ca](julia.bullard@ubc.ca) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| | Julia Bullard is an assistant professor at the iSchool and teaches courses in knowledge organization, classification theory, and information systems. Her research looks at the way that knowledge organization systems are designed, implemented, revised, broken or fixed. She is interested in the design of organization systems and how these systems might align with the values and activities of their communities. Her dissertation work focused on classification systems – the designed structure of terms, their relationships and the rules for applying these terms tor documents or people. Julia Bullard has an MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (McMaster), an MLIS from UBC iSchool, and a Ph.D. from the Information School at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published extensively in classification and knowledge organization systems, and the design of organizing systems such as metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies. |\n| Bullard, Julia. 2024.“Provocations of Process in Critical Knowledge Organization Work”. Knowledge Organization 51, no. 8: 660-666. 49 references. DOI:10 . 5771/0943-7444-2024-8-660 .\u003Cbr>Abstract: In this paper, I argue that the most provocative work in critical knowledge organization is happening at the level ofprocess. I present three persistent assumptions about knowledge organization work and current provocations that challenge them. First, that systems should be seamless and not reveal the work behind them. Second, that systems should achieve a single authorial voice through consistency, precedent, and patterns. Third, that knowledge organization systems are best applied with minimal interpretation on the part of the worker. The provocations against each of these assumptions come from current and highly regarded work in the field, indicating greater respect and visibility for the processes behind knowledge organization systems. |  |\n| Received: 10 July 2024; Accepted 25 July. |  |\n| Keywords: critical knowledge organization; knowledge organization systems; authorial voice; process. |  |\n\n1.0 Introduction  \nThe common image of critical knowledge organization is reparative or liberatory work achieved through more equitable, authentic, and respectful terminology and term relationships. In this paper, I argue that the most provocative work in critical knowledge organization is happening at the level ofprocess. Knowledge organization, as infrastructure, tends to be invisible until it does not work, meaning that those most unjustly treated by colonial, cisheteropatriarchal worldviews are positioned to notice the operations ofa controlled vocabulary or classification while those benefitting from those power relations do not (Star 1999; Huvila 2009; Lee 2015; Bullard et al. 2022) . This essay engages in a second, deeper layer of invisibility: the design work that goes into the system itself. These two types of invisibility are entangled; a seamless experience of information retrieval makes it easier to assume that the system is fully automated  \nand ignorance of the design and maintenance labour ofthe system makes it easier for users to assume the system is objective or inevitable.  \n2.0 Literature Review  \nCritical approaches are fundamentally about questioning the assumptions we treat as given and applying a power analysis to the persistence of those assumptions. In knowledge organization, common assumptions amenable to a critical analysis are that our dominant systems are accurate, objective, inevitable, and innocent. Critical knowledge organization work is often about identifying and exposing the harmsand distortions of these existing systems. Berman (1971) pro","cbCaidD32D3CTwaZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidD32D3CTwaZ","pdf",151868,"English","# Introduction\n# Literature Review","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper identify as the most provocative level in critical knowledge organization?\",\"answer\":\"The paper argues that the most provocative work occurs at the level of process, including the design work and operational practices that shape knowledge organization systems.\"},{\"question\":\"Which three assumptions about knowledge organization work are challenged?\",\"answer\":\"The paper challenges assumptions that systems should be seamless, that they should achieve a single authorial voice through consistency, and that systems are best applied with minimal interpretation by workers.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper explain the invisibility of knowledge organization systems?\",\"answer\":\"It distinguishes between invisibility from seamless information retrieval and a deeper invisibility caused by users’ ignorance of the system’s design and maintenance labor.\"}]","Provocations of Process in Critical Knowledge Organization Work | PDF",18]