The intellectual foundation of information organization
The intellectual foundation of information organization
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
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An inductive inference is a process in which a person considers whether a property of a stimulus category also applies to a target category. Induction is an important building block of conceptualization, since it allows existing knowledge to be applied to new situations. Hierarchical taxonomies, such as the biological taxonomy, can be highly beneficial tools in performing inductions, since they form cognitive scaffolding that maps out how properties are inherited between classes [2, 13]. While many studies have examined how people use biological taxonomies to make inductions, few studies have examined the process of induction from a bibliographic perspective. Bibliographical taxonomies are distinct from other taxonomies in two important respects. Firstly, bibliographic resources represent properties rather than simply having properties. Secondly, items in a bibliographical taxonomy occupy only one class at a single level of specificity. For these reasons, bibliographical taxonomies support inductions, but of a fundamentally different sort than the inductions that are based on other taxonomies. This study is a preliminary investigation into the nature of inductive inferences that are made using bibliographical taxonomies.