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Classifying marginalized people, focusing on natural disaster survivors

Kemp, Randall B. (2007) Classifying marginalized people, focusing on natural disaster survivors. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pages pp. 55-62, Toronto, Ontario.

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Abstract

The marginalization of people through classification schemes results in inadequate access to information about these people when the context is, for example, a bibliographic classification system. When the context is the classification of the people themselves, they themselves are underrepresented, for instance, by society and government support. Taking the case of the natural disaster survivor, this paper explores appropriate steps to devising an accurate classification scheme of the survivors.

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:classification of people, castification
Subjects:Classification
Knowledge Organization
ID Code:1908
Deposited On:05 June 2007
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