ISKO UK Conference 2011
Facets of Knowledge Organization - A tribute to Professor Brian Vickery 

University College London, 4-5 July 

The second biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO  (International Society for Knowledge Organization) honours the life and achievements of Brian C Vickery (1918-2009), one of the great pioneers in our field. From his 1948 essay on Bradford’s law of scattering to a 2008 posting on his website On knowledge organisation, Vickery provided us with a tremendous legacy of insights, still relevant today. According to Vickery, ‘Our tasks are to make knowledge (whether organised or unorganised) available to those who seek it, to store it in an accessible way, and to provide tools and procedures that make it easier for people to find what they seek in those stores.’ During Facets of Knowledge Organization we shall discuss the latest progress with all these tasks. 

Session 1 -  Inspired by Brian C. Vickery

Keynote address

Stephen E Robertson

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Vickery’s late ideas on classification by phenomena and activities

Claudio Gnoli

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Session 2: Exploring relationships

Revisiting Farradane’s relational indexing in a consumer health context

Grant Campbell

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Tagging behaviour with support from controlled vocabulary

Marianne Lykke, Anne Lyne Høj, Line Nørgaard Madsen, Kora Golub, Doug Tudhope


Session 3A: The big schemes - LCSH and DDC

Computer-assisted abridgment of a classification scheme

Rebecca Green, Joan S Mitchell

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The wisdom of the cataloguers: LCSH, indexer inconsistencies and collective intelligence

Gary Steele

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What, if anything, is a subdivision?

Simon Spero 

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Session 3B: Perspectives on resource discovery

Seemingly gliding: the power of metadata in academic resource discovery systems

Lucy Bell, Anat Vernitski 

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Traditions of facet theory, or a garden of forking paths?

Kathryn La Barre 

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Modelling knowledge organization systems and structures – a discussion in the context of conceptual data models

Maja Žumer, Marcia Lei Zeng 

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Session 4: NKOS special session, co-organized by the NKOS European network: What role can KOS play in information retrieval applications?

Knowledge organization systems and their consequences for information retrieval

Vivien Petras

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How doctors apply semantic components to specify search in work-related information retrieval?

Marianne Lykke, Susan Price, Lois Delcambre

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"And the winner is…" The perils and pitfalls of rank order analysis

Elin K Jacob, Nicolas L George, Gary Arave


Session 5: Organizing information: behaviour and development

Keynote address by Amanda Spink: Information organizing: an evolutionary and development framework

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Classification and visualization of knowledge; light from a forgotten past  

Elizabeth Orna

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Knowledge organization systems as enablers to the conduct of science 

Patrick Lambe

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Session 6: The legacy of Brian C Vickery

Brian Vickery and the foundations of information science

Lyn Robinson, David Bawden

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Comparative modeling of Vickery’s faceted classification and the œvre of S R Ranganathan

Joseph T Tennis

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Brian Vickery and the Classification Research Group: the legacy of faceted classification

Vanda Broughton

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Session 7A — Making it work in practice


Enhancing the BBC’s news and sports coverage with an ontology-driven information architecture 

James Howard, Silver Oliver

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Babel revisited: a taxonomy for ordinary images in a bilingual retrieval context 

Elaine Ménard, Margaret Smithglass

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Building bridges: mapping diverse classifications for a seamless user navigation experience 

Fran Alexander

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Session 7B — Facets and folksonomies 


Faceted navigation of social tagging applications 

Louise F Spiteri

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ISO 25964: a standard in support of KOS interoperability

Stella Dextre Clarke

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Modeling a folksonomy with the postulational approach to facet analysis 

Elise Conradi

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Session 8: Special Subjects - music and mathematics

Faceted music: towards a model of music classification

Deborah Lee

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Music indexing and retrieval: evaluating the social production of music metadata and its use

Jean Debaeker, Widad Mustafa El Hadi  

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Some facets of knowledge management in mathematics

Patrick Ion, Wolfram Sperber

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Posters

The use of an indexing language in the catalogues of university libraries: a method for its evaluation by users  based on a socio-cognitive approach

Vera Regina Casari Boccato,  Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita

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Integration of SKOS and SRU in a distributed collaboration environment for archival material description

Ricardo Eito-Brun

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Intersectional perspectives on collaborative tagging

Kristin Johannesson 


A user-centred approach towards a semantic multimediainformation system

Hanene Maghrebi


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