{"product_id":"cats-carpenters-and-accountants-isbn-9780262547598","title":"Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn expansive case for bibliography as infrastructure in information science.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCats, Carpenters, and Accountants \u003c\/i\u003eargues that bibliography serves a foundational role within information science as infrastructure, and like all infrastructures, it needs and deserves attention. Wayne de Fremery’s thoughtful provocation positions bibliography as a means to serve the many ends pursued by information scientists. He explains that bibliographic practices, such as enumeration and description, lie at the heart of knowledge practices and cultural endeavors, but these kinds of infrastructures are difficult to see. In this book, he reveals them and the ways that they formulate information and meaning, artificial intelligence, and human knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on scholarship from areas as diverse as data science, machine learning, Korean poetry, and the history of bibliography, de Fremery makes the case for understanding bibliography as a generative mode of accounting for what has been received as data, what he calls “carpentry-accounting.” Referencing a well-known debate in the Anglo-American bibliographical tradition that features a willful cat, he suggests that bibliography and bibliographers are intentionally marginal figures who, paradoxically, perform foundational work in the service of the diverse disciplinary ends that formulate, however loosely, information science as a field. When we attend to the marginal but essential work of accounting for what humankind has fashioned as recorded knowledge, it becomes easier to consider the ways that human accounts can serve and, sometimes, injure us. Relevant to scholars and students from the sciences to the humanities, \u003ci\u003eCats, Carpenters, and Accountants\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly original argument for bibliography as a marginal but foundationally powerful force shaping information science as a field and the ways that we know.Preface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart I\u003cbr\u003e1 A List of Keywords\u003cbr\u003e2 Lists as Infrastructure: An Infrastructural Inversion\u003cbr\u003e3 The Powers and Pleasures of Lists and the Coordination of Context\u003cbr\u003e4 What Unfamiliar Lists Afford\u003cbr\u003ePart II\u003cbr\u003e5 From Enumeration to Description: Knowledge Graphs and Graphing Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e6 Describing the Archimedes Palimpsest\u003cbr\u003e7 Descriptive Accounts of Biological Metaphors in Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e8 New Bibliographical Description\u003cbr\u003e9 Bibliographical Description, Printers of the Mind, and the Sociology of Texts\u003cbr\u003e10 Models, Modeling, and the Socialization of Data\u003cbr\u003e11 Data Science and Machine Learning as New Bibliographical Description\u003cbr\u003e12 Bibliography and the Sociology of Data\u003cbr\u003eCoda Our “Age of Algorithms”\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex“Wayne de Fremery’s critically sophisticated work makes a major interdisciplinary contribution, arguing for the (surprisingly central) role of bibliography in contemporary information practices. Full of timely and provocative insights.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, Emerita, UCLA; author of \u003ci\u003eInventing the Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVisualization and Interpretation \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“De Fremery returns bibliography to the center of information science with astonishing analysis and deep insight.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Ronald E. Day, Professor, Indiana University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This book is an incisive critical reflection on the problems of designing digital technologies because de Fremery has such a deep practical understanding of book and text technologies. Toolsets for organizing and exchanging what Ernest Boeckh long ago called ‘the knowledge of what is known’ are always also ‘more (or less) conspicuous about what they leave out’ (117).  Because ‘making and building are the best kinds of philosophizing' (107) , text technologies evolved (and text technologists learned) to exploit that conspicuous privilege. De Fremery argues that digital technologies can, should, and (he clearly believes) will learn to do the same.”   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jerome McGann, Professor, University of Virginia\u003c\/b\u003eWayne de Fremery is Professor of Information Science and Entrepreneurship at Dominican University of California, where he also directs the Françoise O. 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