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2nd ISKO UK Biennial Conference
Facets of Knowledge Organization - A tribute to Professor Brian Vickery, 1918–2009
University College London, 4-5 July 2011
The second biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) honours the life and achievements of Brian C Vickery, 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 paper, slides, audio
The wisdom of the cataloguers: LCSH, indexer inconsistencies and collective intelligence Gary Steele paper, slides, audio
What, if anything, is a subdivision? | Session 3B: Perspectives on resource discovery
Seemingly gliding: the power of metadata in academic resource discovery systems Lucy Bell, Anat Vernitski slides, audio
Traditions of facet theory, or a garden of forking paths? Kathryn La Barre paper, audio, slides Modelling knowledge organization systems and structures – a discussion in the context of conceptual data models Maja Žumer, Marcia Lei Zeng paper, slides, audio |
Knowledge organization systems and their consequences for information retrieval How doctors apply semantic components to specify search in work-related information retrieval? Marianne Lykke, Susan Price, Lois Delcambre paper, slides, audio "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 slides, audio Classification and visualization of knowledge; light from a forgotten past
Knowledge organization systems as enablers to the conduct of science Patrick Lambe paper, slides, audio |
Session 6: The legacy of Brian C Vickery Brian Vickery and the foundations of information science Lyn Robinson, David Bawden slides, audio Comparative modeling of Vickery’s faceted classification and the œvre of S R Ranganathan Brian Vickery and the Classification Research Group: the legacy of faceted classification Vanda Broughton paper, slides, audio |
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 slides, audio Babel revisited: a taxonomy for ordinary images in a bilingual retrieval context Elaine Ménard, Margaret Smithglass slides, audio Building bridges: mapping diverse classifications for a seamless user navigation experience |
Session 8: Special Subjects - music and mathematics
Faceted music: towards a model of music classification Deborah Lee paper, slides, audio
Music indexing and retrieval: evaluating the social production of music metadata and its use Jean Debaeker, Widad Mustafa El Hadi paper, slides, audio Some facets of knowledge management in mathematics Patrick Ion, Wolfram Sperber slides, audio |
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