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ISKO UK event team is pleased to announce the new series of nine Knowledge Organization Education (KO-ED) lectures entitled "Exploring Information Retrieval", starting on 3 February 2022.

This KO-ED series is organized in collaboration with Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (IRSG BCS). Lectures provide an introduction to the Information Retrieval and an up-to-date overview of some fundamental concepts, techniques and applications. 

Registration is free for ISKO or BCS members. 

Many thanks to our speakers Georgina Burnett and Mohammed Sadat Abdulai from Wikimedia, for their introduction to Wikibase on Wednesday, 23 November.

Presentation slides for both the introduction and the hands-on session that used data risk management and collaborative threat modelling as a use case are now available on the event page.

The 17th International ISKO Conference. 6 – 8 July 2022

Aalborg (Denmark) and Online

Knowledge Organization across Disciplines, Domains, Services, and Technologies

We have received several inquiries regarding submission deadline extension. As this is the first time that the ISKO conference requires fully-developed papers for review, we have decided to extend the deadline for full papers, short papers, and posters to 05 January 2022.

Deadlines for submissions are thus:

Full papers, short papers, or posters for review: 05 January 2022.

Notification for acceptance of full papers, short papers, and posters: 01 March 2022

Round table discussions and workshop proposals: 15 February 2022.

Notification for acceptance of round table discussions and workshop proposals: 01 March 2022

Due to the continued uncertainty about COVID-19 travel restrictions, we have decided that the conference will be held both in person and online on 6-8 July 2022. All authors will have the opportunity to present their papers and posters, regardless of whether they attend in-person or online. The in-person location will be in Aalborg, Denmark.

Online attendance details will be provided when the conference program is published. Some conference activities, for example highly interactive workshops, may only be available for in-person participants.

Further details at:

https://www.communication.aau.dk/research/knowledge_groups/e-learning-lab/isko/

Many thanks to our speakers Slava Tykhonov and Andrea Scharnhorst and their DANS KNAW colleagues and  Philipp Conzett and Helene Andreassen from The Arctic University Norway - for their presentation on Wednesday 24 November.  

Presentation slides are now available on the event page. ISKO members can request recordings by emailing  vicechair [AT] iskouk [DOT] org.

Many thanks to Marcia Zeng and Gerard Coen for providing the very valuable contribution to the topic of FAIR principles, on Wednesday, 27 October.

Presentation slides are now available on the event page. ISKO members can request recordings by emailing  vicechair [AT] iskouk [DOT] org.

https://www.communication.aau.dk/research/knowledge_groups/e-learning-lab/isko/

“Knowledge Organization across Disciplines, Domains, Services, and Technologies "

The 17th international ISKO Conference, will be held in Aalborg, Denmark from 6-8 July 2022.

This ISKO conference explores how knowledge organization can both draw upon and inform diverse disciplines and technological developments. It will also explore how best to combine theory and practice. The conference will consider practical solutions as well as the theory behind the design, development and implementation of knowledge organizing systems, ranging from controlled vocabularies, classification systems, metadata schemas through to ontologies and taxonomies.

We welcome proposals for full papers, short papers, posters, round table discussions, and workshops. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

We look forward to your contribution!

Conference website:

https://www.communication.aau.dk/research/knowledge_groups/e-learning-lab/isko/

Many thanks to our speakers Hanne Poelmans (Hasselt University) and Sophie Biesenbender (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies) for presenting their projects on research field classifications.

Presentation slides are now available on the event page.

Stephen Garfield gave a very comprehensive overview of  "Copyright in the knowledge organisation work place" on 12 September 2021.

Presentation slides are available here.

Thanks to our web editor's effort and contribution by committee members, you can now learn more about the members who make up the ISKO UK Executive Committee.

See their members' profile at https://www.iskouk.org/ISKO-UK-Committee

ISKO UK Meetup - On the pre-history of information technology by Stephen Robertson took place on 6 July 2021.

Presentation slides are available here.