This paper explores the historical and contemporary practices of documenting urban planning in Tampa Bay, emphasizing the role of sensory experiences in fostering sustainable and equitable development. Using the 1989 Future of Hillsborough Transportation Concepts white paper as a case study, the research critiques the dominance of efficiency-focused documentation in urban policy. This study highlights how such frameworks often neglect cultural and sensory dimensions critical to community well-being. The research calls for a shift towards documenting sensory experiences, drawing on the concept of the sensorium, to bridge the gap between technical data and lived urban experiences. The paper argues that integrating sensory and cultural narratives into urban planning can create more inclusive and responsive cities, as illustrated through the case of La Segunda Bakery and the community protests against highway expansion. This approach provides a more holistic understanding of urban spaces, advocating for planning methodologies that extend beyond economic efficiency to support vibrant and socially connected communities.

Semantic change refers to the process by which words acquire new meanings over time or in different contexts, particularly as they transition between disciplines. This shift in meaning, especially when words are adopted as terms in multiple academic areas, often leads to confusion and ambiguity. This study focuses on the terms "agent" and "ontology," tracing their semantic evolution over time and across disciplines to understand how their meanings differ between fields such as philosophy, law, and artificial intelligence. Drawing on insights from Boon and Van Baalen's metacognitive framework, the analysis demonstrates how understanding these differences can help prevent miscommunication.

This paper explores the multiple ways in which concepts of time are incorporated in cataloguing and classification to see how these temporal concepts influence how material is organised in library space. It discusses multiple concepts, including the structural influences of the capitalist ‘exchange-view’ of time in how the discipline is organised and its incorporation into the so-called ‘universal’ cataloguing systems. The continued issues of obsolescence within cataloguing systems as language and concepts constantly evolve, and how these are integrated into the systems themselves. The paper also discusses the semantic difficulties with how time itself is expressed within cataloguing systems, as time is one of the most widely expressive subjects in the English language. However, a significant amount of time related words are reliant on socially constructed context for their meaning, making them complicated to effectively express in cataloguing systems. Finally, it discusses how researchers have used the temporal issues in cataloguing as a way to examine the evolution of society and hold up mirrors to both the system and ourselves.

As documents are inherently tied to humans and their expressions (Lund 2024), facilitating communication across time and space, we might have historically reflected on the implications of inserting a computer or information system between humans. If we envision the human as a handyman engaged in technical engineering, we can comprehend the development of AI, Artificial Intelligence, as part of a much longer history of creating instruments and machines to support human endeavors. These include the printing press, musical instruments, steam engines, typewriters, microphones, and progressing to digital musical instruments that create their own music.

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Modern technology has been proven to be present in various fields, and this phenomenon interests many organizations to benefit from sustainability and stability, including what contributes to creating a healthy and safe living environment for the people. One of the museums in Indonesia has been applying the technology: Museum Universitas Gadjah Mada (Gajah Mada University) or Museum UGM in Yogjakarta. The museum has recently launched QR Code Museum Automatic Guiding Plus (UGM QR Code), a revolutionary technology, containing navigation, guidance, and narration about the collections on display using a QR Code scanner on a smartphone. This technology gives visitors access to short descriptions of the collections and pertinent information about the museum’s collection such as research, photos, and books.

This paper proposes prototypes for the exploration of the context of terms in a knowledge organization system by visualizing machine learning produced word embeddings. It puts this work in the context of the search for a universal language, typified by Leibniz’s characteristica universalis. This tradition of the search for universal languages is put in the context of universalizing tendencies in taxonomic classification in library and information science. Following this there is a discussion of the use of machine learning models to represent context. These two concerns inform the construction of prototypes for exploring the contextual spaces produced by word embeddings as a means to interrogating the act of classification in library and information science.

Across disciplines, sensemaking is a theoretical and methodological research program, over forty years in development, that has been treated as a framework for understanding how humans behaviorally respond to external information sources and interpret to construct and actualize actionable outcomes; however, sensemaking is an interlinking process that does not operate in singularity–behaviorally or actionably–it is neurobiological (autonomous drive), cognitive (perceptual and predictive), and psychological (congruency in meaning). This paper enlarges the conceptual framework for studying sensemaking and redefines it by addressing what sensemaking is, does, and needs. At the core of this conversation is addressing the absence of knowledge and scholarship on sense(un)making, often mentioned in literature as the opposite of sensemaking, but remarkably, without definition or explanation, assuming knowing the first process, e.g., sensemaking, negates defining and studying the latter. Sense(un)making, a conceptual idea explored in this paper, is activated when sensemaking, predictive processing, and meaningmaking are no longer working asynchronously because new information has challenged an aspect of meaning in life (i.e., congruency, purpose, and significance). The implications of this paper’s ideas lie in its contributions to conversations, research, and future directions in information behavior and sensemaking research. The research questions are simple: What is sensemaking? What is sense(un)making?

This paper explores documents that are recorded and cataloged, but the original is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon that only exists once. It ponders where information ends, and document begins and the concepts of space and context that contribute to the shape or structure of the document. Specifically, the confidential counseling session, only experienced by the individuals present during the session, repeated but not duplicated, and how information and documents contribute to understanding of the counseling session.

How do our personal documentation practices change as we age, and how can we create and save personal evidence of ourselves for our family’s future? All of us continually accumulate information about ourselves in our everyday lives, intentionally, incidentally, or otherwise, for self-presentation, self-fulfillment, reminders of our past, reinforcing identity, as a hobby, for personal documentation, or for peace of mind. Increasingly, this evidence is in digital form, and often in the cloud. The authors use a collaborative autoethnography and narrative methodology, as outlined by Ford (2020), to document how aging affects our personal documentation and our memories. In the research literature, what are described as personal documentation include oral histories, diaries, letters, narratives incorporating photovoice, online social networks, and other reflective techniques that allow users to record their everyday stories, increasingly using digital technologies. Documents, along with objects and artifacts that act as documents do not hold our memories but are agents that can cue our memories through physical or digital experiences, or through a combination of both, experienced through our senses. As such, they are living documents that grow and evolve as they are carried through our lives and passed on to posterity, for we “primarily make sense of the past through the materiality of things — through objects, artefacts, landscapes, and [our] bodies” (Staats, 2019). According to Lund (2004) documents have aspects that are informational (mental), material (physical) and communicational (social); in other words, they involve our heads, hands, and hearts to create meaning. We, a group of four information researchers, drew on our extensive research experience, each contributing our unique personal narratives, reflections, and observations using a relational approach. By doing so, we were able to construct a shared understanding of our topic. Ultimately, our collaborative examination of our practices resulted in a rich and nuanced portrayal of this complex topic. We take a look at how we can make sense of our own personal and family histories in a holistic manner as we age so that what we leave behind contributes to our family and cultural memory and is not just a data store of indecipherable digital objects or an underbed shoe box of unexplained material artifacts. We explore the challenges of dealing with the wide distribution of personal digital information fragmented through different mediums. Like time, our personal spaces of information are constantly evolving; control and ownership are some of the issues at hand, as well as benign neglect and the lack of responsibility for taking control over personal documents and personal histories. Through this presentation we raise a call to action, and if not us, then who will take responsibility for our repository of personal identities and histories? Leaving our histories in others' hands may lead to a great loss of cultural heritage for contemporary people’s life stories. We realize this will take great effort by individuals, and we see this project as a driving force to promote personal documentation as we age in a time where digital documentation tools present a great risk in maintaining the story of our lives.