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“Knowledge Organization across Disciplines, Domains, Services, and Technologies "

The 17th international ISKO Conference, will be held in Aalborg, Denmark from 6-8 July 2022.

This ISKO conference explores how knowledge organization can both draw upon and inform diverse disciplines and technological developments. It will also explore how best to combine theory and practice. The conference will consider practical solutions as well as the theory behind the design, development and implementation of knowledge organizing systems, ranging from controlled vocabularies, classification systems, metadata schemas through to ontologies and taxonomies.

We welcome proposals for full papers, short papers, posters, round table discussions, and workshops. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

We look forward to your contribution!

Conference website:

https://www.communication.aau.dk/research/knowledge_groups/e-learning-lab/isko/

Many thanks to our speakers Hanne Poelmans (Hasselt University) and Sophie Biesenbender (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies) for presenting their projects on research field classifications.

Presentation slides are now available on the event page.

Stephen Garfield gave a very comprehensive overview of  "Copyright in the knowledge organisation work place" on 12 September 2021.

Presentation slides are available here.

Thanks to our web editor's effort and contribution by committee members, you can now learn more about the members who make up the ISKO UK Executive Committee.

See their members' profile at https://www.iskouk.org/ISKO-UK-Committee

ISKO UK Meetup - On the pre-history of information technology by Stephen Robertson took place on 6 July 2021.

Presentation slides are available here.

ISKO UK KO Research Observatory event entitled "Observing knowledge organization trajectories in healthcare", took place on 30 June 2021 via Zoom and consisted of two presentations. 

Presentation slides are now available here.

In this  presentation Alex Church addressed the issues and challenges organisations and information managers are facing with the introduction of MS teams, providing practical advice on how to address them, focusing on the developing a robust information architecture and governance .

Slides are available here

In this talk Paul Rissen from Springer Nature has demystified the process of crafting a narrative, showing how information architecture and structured thinking can help us make sense of the stories we tell ourselves every day.

Slides are available here

With sadness we report the sudden death of Liz Marley on 14 April 2021, at the age of 53. She was a member of the Indexing and Data Management team at the House of Commons Library and she became its first ever Thesaurus Editor.

Among other commitments, she was a member of the Executive Committee of ISKO UK from 2015 to 2017 and a member of Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TiPS). Liz was a familiar face at Taxonomy Boot Camp London and ISKO UK conferences bringing common sense and a practical approach to the organisational side of the events, as well as humour and interesting conversations in the coffee breaks and social evenings.

She was generous with her time, often helping fellow taxonomists at the weekends for fun, in spite of her frequent travels to Morocco to advise the Moroccan Parliament on developing their information services.

We, at ISKO UK, wish to express our sincere condolences to Liz's family and friends.

Presentation slides and video recordings are now available for the first two VocBench Workshops organized by ISKO UK Meetup Team. Many thanks to  Armando Stellato, Phil Stacey and Eugene Morozov.

ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup: VocBench Workshops: Part 1: Introducing VocBench, 6 April 2021. See event page.

ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup: VocBench Workshops: Part 2: VocBench Data Import with Sheet2RDF, 4 May 2021. See event page.