That sounds like a really interesting article, addressing the exact question I’ve been asking myself recently. I’m interested if you address the specifics of certain ontological theories? I ask because I am particularly interested in Quine’s ontological theories. Either way I’d be really grateful to receive a draft copy, it sounds like it will help me to get some direction and context for my own research. I am writing an article at the moment about the evolution of encyclopaedia and the relation to Quine’s epistemological/ontological holism.

Just to clarify, by information academics I meant those from the information management and information and library fields, and I must stress I was generalising. The reason I said it was due to frustration on my part when researching for my MSc that there was an overwhelming amount of literature on ontologies from the IT sector. It just seemed that ontological theorising is largely justified by practical applications in databases, websites etc.

This is why I am so glad to hear of your research since it is, if I understand correctly, trying to address this imbalance and instead create more crossover between different sectors.