Upon election, any member may serve on the Committee for up to four years, after which he or she is eligible for re-election for a further term of four years. A person holding one of the four offices described may not continue in that role for more than two consecutive terms. The Executive Committee may co-opt members at any time to fill vacancies. More detail is available under the Members Area (restricted access).
The current members of the Executive Committee are (with links to their profiles):
Chair Sylvie Davies
Vice-Chair and Events Coordinator Aida Slavic
Treasurer Duncan McKay
Secretary elect Dianne Pennington
Member Niké Brown
Member Joy Nam
Member Deborah Lee
Member Eugene Morozov
Member Tanja Svarre
Member Ian Synge
Member Judi Vernau
Member and Web Editor David Watkins
I am the current Chair of ISKO UK I have recently retired from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, where I taught and researched on Knowledge Organization. I am also a member of the UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) editorial team. Apart from teaching and research activities, I have been involved in various aspects of information management in the oil and gas industry and at the Aberdeen Harbour Board via the delivery of taxonomy workshops and cross-industry forums. I am now committed to promoting Knowledge Organization education, particular for information workers who have not benefited from a formal education in ILS and IM. ISKO UK is in an enviable position globally thanks to the hard work of members who have contributed to very successful online events which attracted a wide audience concerned with the organisation of information. I will endeavour to promote sound governance practices to allow past, current and future contributors to deploy their talents and ideas in a stable environment. I live in Scotland with my large extended family. |
As a long time member of ISKO and one of the founding members of the UK Chapter, I am currently serving as Vice-Chair and Event Coordinator. Apart from my roles in our Chapter I am also Vice Chair of the ISKO Scientific and Technical Advisory Council (ISKO STAC), and a member of ISKO's Editorial Board of the Knowledge Organization journal. In 2019, I helped establish the Low Countries Chapter of ISKO and I continue to collaborate between our Chapters in event organization and promotion of knowledge organization in professional and academic communities. My main job is editor-in-chief of the Universal Decimal Classification at the UDC Consortium (The Hague, Netherlands). I am also an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia where I occasionally participate as a lecturer of postgraduate courses in indexing languages, knowledge organization and information retrieval (my webpage). |