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 3A: The big schemes - LCSH and DDC
Computer-assisted abridgment of a classification scheme Rebecca Green, Joan S Mitchell
The wisdom of the cataloguers: LCSH, indexer inconsistencies and collective intelligence Gary Steele
What, if anything, is a subdivision? Simon Spero | Session 3B: Perspectives on resource discovery
Seemingly gliding: the power of metadata in academic resource discovery systems Lucy Bell, Anat Vernitski
Traditions of facet theory, or a garden of forking paths? Modelling knowledge organization systems and structures – a discussion in the context of conceptual data models Maja Žumer, Marcia Lei Zeng |
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 How doctors apply semantic components to specify search in work-related information retrieval? Marianne Lykke, Susan Price, Lois Delcambre "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 developmentKeynote address by Amanda Spink: Information organizing: an evolutionary and development framework Classification and visualization of knowledge; light from a forgotten past Elizabeth Orna
Knowledge organization systems as enablers to the conduct of science Patrick Lambe |
Session 6: The legacy of Brian C VickeryBrian Vickery and the foundations of information science Lyn Robinson, David Bawden Comparative modeling of Vickery’s faceted classification and the œvre of S R Ranganathan Joseph T Tennis Brian Vickery and the Classification Research Group: the legacy of faceted classification Vanda Broughton |
Session 7A — Making it work in practiceEnhancing the BBC’s news and sports coverage with an ontology-driven information architecture James Howard, Silver Oliver Babel revisited: a taxonomy for ordinary images in a bilingual retrieval context Elaine Ménard, Margaret Smithglass Building bridges: mapping diverse classifications for a seamless user navigation experience Fran Alexander | Session 7B — Facets and folksonomiesFaceted navigation of social tagging applications Louise F Spiteri ISO 25964: a standard in support of KOS interoperability Stella Dextre Clarke Modeling a folksonomy with the postulational approach to facet analysis Elise Conradi |
Session 8: Special Subjects - music and mathematics
Faceted music: towards a model of music classification Deborah Lee
Music indexing and retrieval: evaluating the social production of music metadata and its use Jean Debaeker, Widad Mustafa El Hadi Some facets of knowledge management in mathematics Patrick Ion, Wolfram Sperber |