Programme

7 OCTOBER 2025 (Time zone BST)

REGISTRATION

09:30 - 09:45

OPENING

09:45 - 10:00

Welcome to the 8th ISKO UK Conference

SESSION 1


CHAIR: Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia (ISKO Italy)

10:00 - 10:30

Andrea Scharnhorst DANS KNAW (Netherlands):
Building knowledge bases - a human centered AI supported approach for long-term archiving

10:30 - 11:00

Marcia Zeng, Kent State University (USA):
The role of KOS in AI-supported semantic integration: disambiguation, identification, linking

11:00 - 11:30

Ziyoung Park, Hansung University (South Korea):
Co-creating with GenAI and expert review: empowering KOS projects through design, automation and recommendation

BREAK

11:30 - 12:00

SESSION 2

CHAIR: Niké Brown, Wiley (ISKO UK)
12:00 - 12:30

Ronald Siebes, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Potemkin Understanding: the illusion of thinking

12:30 - 13:00

Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies (USA)
The case for general purpose categorizers as part of the AI ecosystem

LUNCH BREAK

13:00 - 13:30

SESSION 3

CHAIR: Tanja Svarre, Aalborg University (ISKO UK)

13:30 - 14:00

Angelo Salatino, The Open University (UK)
Knowledge organization systems of research fields: overview and automatic generation

14:00 - 14:30

Mayukh Bagchi, University of Trento (Italy)
Generative knowledge organization via human-LLM collaboration

14:30 - 15:00

Tony Russell-Rose, City St George's, University of London (UK)
Building and deploying LLMs for search and retrieval

BREAK

15:00 - 15:15

SESSION 4

CHAIR: Jian Qin, Syracuse University (ISKO Canada & US)

15:15 - 15:45

Julaine Clunis, Old Dominion University (USA)
From black boxes to transparent AI systems: balancing innovation and responsibility using knowledge organization systems

15:45 - 16:15

Joane Casenave, Widad M El Hadi, Thibault Grison, University of Lille (France)
Artificial intelligence, KO and information mediation on the Web: from ethical dimensions to social responsibility

DISCUSSION

16:15 - 17:00

Moderator: Joseph Busch (ISKO Canada & US)

Privacy Policy
Copyright policy
Cookie Policy
Sitemap
Contacts

Copyright 2025 UK Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization

Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software