ISKO UK Conference 2017
Knowledge Organization, what’s the story? Current state and direction of travel

London, 11-12 September

Day One: Monday 11th September 2017

Session 1: Keynote

The unicorn and the rhinoceros, not to mention the thesaurus: ontology and discovery in the story of knowledge organization

Vanda Broughton

ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization

Claudio Gnoli

Session 2: Narrative in KO has a long history

Knowledge was their treasure applying KO approaches to archaeological research

Edmund Lee

A history of representation of humans in library practice

Brian Dobreski; Barbara Kwasnik

Constructing a meta-narrative for Stefan Zweig’s literary estate

Kim Taylor and Lina Maria Zangerl

Session 3A: Classification and indexing – the traditional story of knowledge organization

Old schemes, new perspectives: the narrative of classification scheme analysis in the 21st century

Deborah Lee

Construction and evaluation of logical hierarchical structures of indexing languages for online catalogs of libraries

Mariângela Fujita; Luciana Beatriz Piovesan Dos Santos; Maria Carolina Andrade e Cruz; Walter Moreira; Rosane Barros

Dialogical elements among Harris, Dewey, Cutter, Otlet, Kaiser and Ranganathan: theoretical convergences in the history of knowledge organization

Rodrigo de Sales, José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Daniel Martínez-Ávila

Session 3B: An evolving story for knowledge organization in the workplace

Re-purposing knowledge organization systems as an epistemology: from organizing and retrieval to pattern recognition of social phenomena

Paul Cleverley, Laura Muir

Liminal stories: how does storytelling help us make sense of liminal environments in organisational life?

Ian Rodwell

Beyond search: other uses for taxonomies

Robert Kasenchak, Margie Hlava

Session 4: Stories linked to sounds and images

Stories, songs, steps, and tunes: a linked data ontology for Irish traditional music and dance

Lynnsey Weissenberger

Embedded metadata and image retrieval: a critical case study

Kristen Schuster

Ethical issues in the analysis and representation of images: a content analysis of the ISKO meetings proceedings

André Ynada Dos Santos; Daniel Martínez-Ávila; José Augusto Chaves Guimarães

Disrupting the metanarrative: a little history of the management and retrieval of images

Pauline Rafferty

Day Two: Tuesday 12th September 2017

Session 5: False narratives: developing a KO community response to post-truth issues

Scoping out post-truth issues and how might KO help

Dave Clarke

Why ‘Facts Matter’ – evidence, trust and literacy in a post-truth world

Nick Poole

Session 6: Narratives built through Linked Data

ADA: Creating journeys through the BBC Radio archive using linked data

Jo Kent

Knowledge organization systems (KOS) in the semantic web: is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? - A multi-dimensional review

Marcia Zeng, Philipp Mayr

Using KO to interrogate stories in the news

Dave Clarke

Session 7A: Towards the building of narratives

Towards a general ontology for describing processes, events, and stories / narratives

Dagobert Soergel

Experience-oriented knowledge organization for the transference of scientific knowledge from universities to SMEs

Marianne Lykke, Sarai Løkkegaard, Tanja Svarre

Session 7B: Narratives built through social media

Discourse about knowledge organization on Twitter – a narrative on current themes

David Haynes

An investigation of user-generated book reviews: Goodreads or Badreads?

Lala Hajibayova

The BARTOC story: from blog to basic to full terminology registry

Andreas Ledl

Session 8: Narratives built around the world

Facet-based development for concise map classification – ten-country study

Jiří Pik, Célia da Consolação Dias

Organization and exploration fine-grained historical knowledge of contemporary China-based on semantic mining

Zhixiong Zhang, Ying Wang, Hui Sun, Feng Lei

Indexing policy in a collaborative environment: an analysis in Brazilian digital libraries

Roberta Cristina Dal' Evedove Tartarotti, Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita, Paula Regina Dal' Evedove

Transforming open data to linked open data using ontologies for information organization in big data environments of the Brazilian government

Marcio Victorino, Maristela Holanda, Edson Ishikawa, Edgard Oliveira

Posters

Leverage keywords of early Chinese periodicals’ images: towards a knowledge organization system, contextualization and visualization

Shu-Jiun Chen

Automatic subject classification for improving retrieval in Swedish repositories

Koraljka Golub

A Linked Open Thesaurus for Information Literacy

Heather Inskip