Contributions to Edited Works
(Holley, Karri and Rick Szostak) "Developments in Interdisciplinary Scholarship in North America" in Julie Thompson Klein and Bianca Vienni Baptista, eds., Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Institutionalizing Collaboration across Cultures and Communities. Routledge, 2022.
“Toward a General Theory of Knowledge Organization.” Knowledge Organization Across Disciplines, Domains, Services and Technologies. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International ISKO Conference, 2022 Aalborg, Denmark. July 2022. 9 pp.
(Richard Smiraglia and Rick Szostak) “Comparing UDC and BCC for Works of Music.” Knowledge Organization Across Disciplines, Domains, Services and Technologies. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International ISKO Conference, 2022 Aalborg, Denmark. July 2022. 3338 words. 8pp.
(Tobias Renwick and Rick Szostak) “A Thesaural Interface for the Basic Concepts Classification” Proceedings of the International Society for Knowledge Organization conference, 2020.
(Rick Szostak and Richard Smiraglia) “Identifying and Classifying the Phenomena of Music” Proceedings of the International Society for Knowledge Organization conference, 2020.
(Rick Szostak and six others) “Classifications as Linked Open Data Challenges and Opportunities” Proceedings of the International Society for Knowledge Organization conference, 2020.
"Interdisciplinarity: Some Lebanese Reflections," In May Maalouf and Hend El Rammouz, eds., Proceedings of the First Conference on Interdisciplinarity (Beirut March 2018), Beirut: Mounir Alam Printing Press, 2018, 27-35.
(Rick Szostak and Richard Smiraglia) “Classifying Music within the Basic Concepts Classification” Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science 2019 https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ojs.cais-acsi.ca/index.php/cais-asci/article/view/1064
“Applied Knowledge Organization and the History of the World” Proceedings of the International Society for Knowledge Organization conference, Porto, Portugal, July, 2018.
(Richard Smiraglia and Rick Szostak) “Converting UDC to BCC: Comparative Approaches to Interdisciplinarity” Proceedings of the International Society for Knowledge Organization conference, Porto, Portugal, July, 2018.
(Rick Szostak, Andrea Scharnhorst, Wouter Beek, and Richard Smiraglia) “Connecting KOSs and the LOD Cloud” Proceedings of the International Society for Knowledge Organization conference, Porto, Portugal, July, 2018.
“Interdisciplinary research as a creative design process,” in Frédéric Darbellay, Zoe Moody, Todd Lubart, Eds., Creative Design thinking from an interdisciplinary perspective, Berlin: Springer, 2017.
“Facet Analysis without Facet Indicators” in Dimensions of Knowledge: Facets for Knowledge Organization. Edited by Richard Smiraglia and Hur-li Lee. Wurzburg: Ergon, 2017.
“Theory versus Practice in Facet Analysis,” Faceted classification today: Theory, technology and end users: Proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2017, London (UK), 14-15 Sept.2017. Eds. A. Slavic, C. Gnoli. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 259-69.
(Richard Smiraglia and Rick Szostak) “Comparative approaches to facets in interdisciplinary KOSs: UDC and Basic Concepts Classification,” Proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2017 (see above), 279-84,
"Facet Analysis Using Grammar," for the Proceedings of the North American Society for Knowledge Organization conference (June 2017; Champaign IL).
(Rick Szostak and Richard Smiraglia) " Comparative Approaches to Interdisciplinary KOSs: Use Cases of Converting UDC to BCC," Proceedings of the NASKO conference (June 2017). Forthcoming.
"Employing a Synthetic Approach to Subject Classification across Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums," Proceedings of the International Society for Knowledge Organization conference, Rio de Janeiro, Sept., 2016.
“The Simplest Approach to Subject Classification,” Proceedings of the IFLA satellite conference, Columbus OH, Aug., 2016.
“Synthetic classification of museum artifacts using basic concepts.” Proceedings of the Museums and the Web conference, Los Angeles, April, 2016.
(Rick Szostak and Claudio Gnoli) “Universality is Inescapable” Advances in classification research 2014, Proceedings of the ASIST SIG/CR Workshop, November 1, 2014, Seattle: https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/acro/article/view/14906
“A Growth Agenda for Economic History” in Nye, Greif, and Keisling, eds. Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization. Princeton University Press.
"Skepticism and Knowledge Organization" in Wieslaw Babik, ed., Knowledge Organization in the 21st Century: Between Historical Patterns and Future Prospects. Proceedings of the 13th ISKO Conference, Krakow, May, 2014.
“Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Approaches to MMR” Invited chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Mixed and Multi-method Research (Hesse-Bulber and Johnson eds.). Forthcoming.
"An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heterodoxy" for the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics, Frederic Lee and R. Cronin eds., Edward Elgar Publishers.
“Classification, ontology, and the semantic web.” Advances in classification research, https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/acro
“Communicating Complex Concepts” In O'Rourke, M., Crowley, S., Eigenbrode, S. D., Wulfhorst, J. D., eds. Enhancing Communication and Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage. (2014 [July 2013]), 34-55.
“Classification in Terms of Basic Concepts” Advances in Classification Research 2012, Proceedings of the ASIST SIG/CR Workshop, October 26, 2012, Baltimore, MD, USA.
“The Basic Concepts Classification” in Neelameghan, A. and Raghavan, K.S. (Eds.) Categories, Contexts and Relations in Knowledge Organization, Proceedings of the Twelfth International ISKO Conference 6-9 August 2012 Mysore, India. 24-30.
“What role did imperialism play in facilitating the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain?” ABC-CLIO's World History: The Modern Era online database. Accepted July 2012.. 2730 words.
“Integrating Interdisciplinary Studies across the Humanities and Social Sciences,” in Raphael Foshay, ed., Valences of Interdisciplinarity. Athabasca University Press, 2012, 165-88.
(Claudio Gnoli, Tom Pullmann, Philippe Cousson, Gabriele Merli and Rick Szostak) “Representing the structural elements of a freely faceted classification,” in Aida Slavic and Edgardo Civallero, eds. Classification and ontology: Formal approaches and access to knowledge: Proceedings of the International UDC Seminar (19-20 September 2011, The Hague), Würzburg: Ergon, 2011, p. 193-206. The TOCs are at http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/php/proceedings.php
“The Causes of the British Industrial Revolution” ABC-CLIO's World History: The Modern Era online database. Accepted Nov 2011. 1350 words.
"The Interdisciplinary Research Process," in Allen F. Repko, William H. Newell, and Rick Szostak, eds. Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Research, Feb. 2011, Thousand Oaks: Sage, 3-19.
"An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Causes of Economic Growth," in Allen F. Repko, William H. Newell, and Rick Szostak, eds. Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Research, Feb. 2011, Thousand Oaks: Sage, 159-89.
(with Allen F. Repko and William H. Newell) "Preface," in Allen F. Repko, William H. Newell, and Rick Szostak, eds. Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Research, Feb. 2011, Thousand Oaks: Sage, xv-xxvi.
"Universal and Domain-specific Classifications from an Interdisciplinary Perspective" in Claudio Gnoli and Fulvio Mazzochi, eds., Paradigms and Conceptual Systems in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings from the 2010 conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (Rome, Feb. 2010). Wurzburg: Erlon Verlag.
"Transcending Discipline-Based Library Classifications" in The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (2010). 180-1.
"Beyond Aboutness: Classifying Causal Links in the Service of Interdisciplinarity" (with Claudio Gnoli), Proceedings of ASIST Special Interest Group on Classification Research 20th Workshop, Vancouver, Nov. 7, 2009. To be archived on D-List.
"A Canadian and Collaborative Perspective: The Office of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta", in Tanya Augsburg and Stuart Henry, eds., The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies: Interdisciplinary Transformation in Undergraduate American Higher Education, McFarland Press. 2009.
"Issues, Challenges, and Prospects: Beyond the Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies" (with Tanya Augsburg, Stuart Henry, and William H. Newell, eds.), The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies: Interdisciplinary Transformation in Undergraduate American Higher Education, McFarland Press. 2009.
"Integrating Interdisciplinary Studies across the Humanities and Social Sciences", in Raphael Foshay, ed., The Scope of Interdisciplinarity, Athabasca University Press. 2009.
"Classifying by phenomena, theories, and methods: examples with focused social science theories", (with Claudio Gnoli), in Culture and identity in knowledge organization, proceedings of the 19th international ISKO conference, Montreal, 2008, Wurzburg: Ergon. p. 205-211.
"Interdisciplinarity and the Classification of Scholarly Documents by Phenomena, Theories, and Methods" in Blanca Rodriguez Bravo and Luisa Elvita Diez, eds., Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in the Organization of Scientific Knowledge: Actas de VIII Congreso ISKO-Espana. Leon: University of Leon, 469-77.
"Confessions of an Ex-Beauty Queen: Some Simple Lessons for the Profession", in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak, eds., Tales of Narcissus: The Looking Glass of Economic Science, New York: Nova Science, 2002, 237-46.
"The Domestic Economy: An Overview" in Canada Since Confederation: A History on CD-Rom, Chinook Multimedia, Sept. 2001, 90msp.
"The Meaning of Economic History: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" in Pat Hudson, ed., The Meaning of Economic History, Glasgow: Economic History Society, 2001, pp. 357-61.