Knowledge Management Section
The Knowledge Management Discussion is issues of the "new" field of knowledge management, particularly with regard to setting up such a function in their libraries or organizations.
Friday, January 20, 2017
[KMDG-L] Call for Short Papers: BigScholar@WWW 2017 (due in one week)
Thursday, January 19, 2017
[KMDG-L] Colleagues in Knowledge Management
Let me start with introducing myself. My name is Levien den Boer and I work at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), where I work at the knowledge management section of the Innovation and Development department. My work consists primarily of exploring and developing means to stimulate and facilitate knowledge sharing among (employees of) Dutch public libraries.
Through this e-mail I hope to meet international colleagues who work in the same or a related field. My goal is to build a (small) network through which we can exchange insights, pose questions and help each other.
For those interested: last year I gave a presentation at the IFLA Congress on Biebtobieb, an online knowledge and innovation platform: http://library.ifla.org/1387/ Feel free to contact me if you'd like more information!
Best regards,
Levien den Boer
Moderator National Knowledge Sharing
Sector I&D / Research Department
E levien.denboer@kb.nl
T +31 70 314 0684
LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/leviendenboer
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
[KMDG-L] Call for papers (2): International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: Theory, Technology and End Users (London, 14-15 September 2017
International UDC Seminar 2017
FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY:
Theory, Technology and End Users
DATE: 14-15 September 2017
VENUE: London
WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/
CONTACT: seminar2017@udcc.org
International UDC Seminar 2017 marks the anniversaries of two conferences devoted to faceted classification research: sixty years
since the First International Study Conference on Classification Research (Dorking, 1957) and twenty years since the the Sixth
International Study Conference (London, 1997).
The objective of the conference is to revisit faceted analytical theory as a method for (re)constructing modern classifications and indexing
languages and the role analytico-synthetic classifications have had in resource discovery and retrieval, from their introduction at the
beginning of the 20th century to date. The conference will examine the challenges analytico-synthetic classifications represent for data
modelling and interface design in the Web environment. Most importantly, it will explore potential fields of application for faceted
classifications in information organization, visualization and presentation of large datasets, social networks and in the open linked
data environment.
High quality and innovative contributions are invited for the following
topics:
- The impact of faceted analytical theory and research on modern
classification and indexing languages;
- Data modelling, data management and data sharing of faceted and
analytico-synthetic classifications;
- Vocabulary mapping, semantic linking and natural language interfacing
of analytico-synthetic systems;
- Applications of faceted analytical theory on (re)constructing
knowledge classifications and indexing languages;
- End user interface design and user-friendly knowledge presentation for
faceted systems;
- Novel applications of faceted systems outside the bibliographic
domain.
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Two kinds of contributions are invited: conference papers and posters. Authors should submit a paper proposal in the form of an extended
abstract (1000-1200 words, including references, for papers; and 500-600 words for posters). The submission form is provided on the conference website.
Proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an international panel of experts. Each submission will undergo a blind
review by at least three reviewers.
The Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed at the conference. Best papers will be proposed for publishing in the Knowledge Organization journal
IMPORTANT DATES:
29 Jan 2017 Submission deadline
1 Mar 2017 Notification of acceptance & paper submission instruction
15 May 2017 Papers submission (camera ready copy)
ORGANIZER: The International UDC Seminar 2017 "Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users" is the sixth biennial
conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC). UDC Seminars are devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment. UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in
The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal Classification and to support its use and development. UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain.
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Dr Aida Slavic
Editor-in-Chief UDC
Email: aida.slavic@udcc.org
UDC Consortium
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands
Web: http://www.udcc.org
Email: mail@udcc.org
Friday, January 6, 2017
[KMDG-L] Second Call for Papers: ISKO-UK biennial conference, September 11-12 2017, London
CALL FOR PAPERS
Knowledge Organization – what's the story?
Classification, Indexing, Taxonomies and Ontologies - current state and direction of travel
ISKO-UK biennial conference
11th – 12th September 2017, London
This will be the 5th biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and a celebration of the 10th birthday of the Chapter.
Call for Papers
Our ability to use narrative is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, with more than one role in Knowledge Organization (KO). Story-telling may have been superseded as the principal way of passing knowledge from one generation to the next, but can still bring to life the study of historical records. And a coherent story helps us make sense of any collection of knowledge.
This conference will explore the role of narrative both literal and metaphorical, in any context of KO, and the potential for KO to evolve towards an unfolding story of applications useful to society and economic development.
Relevant topics include:
• Where has KO come from and where is it going?
• What role is there for narrative in KO work?
• Extracting the stories hidden in big data, and in image collections
• Exploitation of Linked Data to follow threads of discovery
• What are the latest developments in KO? What are the challenges being faced in the field?
• How will the future unfold? How should research support findability requirements?
• What applications other than information retrieval can we see for KO in the future?
• The evolving relationship between KO and metadata
• Use of anecdote in the teaching of KO
• Lessons learned
The UK Chapter of ISKO is working hard to make this conference a showcase for inspiring, innovative work in our field, and looks forward to welcoming the worldwide KO community to London.
Presentation format, submissions and acceptance criteria
The conference will include a mix of brief (20-minute) and long (40-minute) presentations, as well as a display of posters. Speakers will be asked to provide a paper as well as presenting the material in person. Together with slides and audio recordings, all the papers submitted will be published electronically on the conference website. After peer review the four best papers will be selected for publication in ISKO's journal, Knowledge Organization.
You can submit proposals in the form of an abstract via https://www.conftool.net/iskouk-2017/ from 1st December 2016. (To make the submission you will be asked to set up a user account with Conftool, our service provider.) The closing date for proposals is 31 January 2017. We are looking for papers that will attract a global audience of researchers, teachers, developers and practitioners. Your paper should help to deepen our understanding of knowledge organization, describe challenges and advances in the field, or consider the potential of KO to bring progress and benefits.
Other criteria for acceptance include originality, clarity of expression, and relevance to the conference theme. Proposals should have a sound basis in historical fact, KO theory or current practice.
Please provide an abstract of 300-500 words (including references), and indicate whether you plan a Brief or Long presentation, or a Poster. We will let you know by the end of April 2017 whether your proposal has been accepted. Full papers should be submitted by 31st July 2017. Editorial guidelines will be available via the conference website from early 2017.
More background on ISKO
ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with a mission to promote the theory and practice of organizing knowledge and information. The emphasis in our UK Chapter is to build bridges between the research and practitioner communities, for example at our regular and very popular afternoon meetings. You can see past and future events at Our Events, together with slides and sound recordings for most presentations. The proceedings of our previous biennial conferences are available there too, in electronic media.
Enquiries
Please contact us at info@iskouk.org if you have enquiries about the conference.
Registration
Registration will open in the Spring of 2017.
Liz Marley
ISKO-UK Publicity
Thursday, December 15, 2016
[KMDG-L] Call for Papers: ISKO-UK biennial conference, September 11-12 2017, London
CALL FOR PAPERS
Knowledge Organization – what's the story?
Classification, Indexing, Taxonomies and Ontologies - current state and direction of travel
ISKO-UK biennial conference
11th – 12th September 2017, London
This will be the 5th biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and a celebration of the 10th birthday of the Chapter.
Call for Papers
Our ability to use narrative is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, with more than one role in Knowledge Organization (KO). Story-telling may have been superseded as the principal way of passing knowledge from one generation to the next, but can still bring to life the study of historical records. And a coherent story helps us make sense of any collection of knowledge.
This conference will explore the role of narrative both literal and metaphorical, in any context of KO, and the potential for KO to evolve towards an unfolding story of applications useful to society and economic development.
Relevant topics include:
• Where has KO come from and where is it going?
• What role is there for narrative in KO work?
• Extracting the stories hidden in big data, and in image collections
• Exploitation of Linked Data to follow threads of discovery
• What are the latest developments in KO? What are the challenges being faced in the field?
• How will the future unfold? How should research support findability requirements?
• What applications other than information retrieval can we see for KO in the future?
• The evolving relationship between KO and metadata
• Use of anecdote in the teaching of KO
• Lessons learned
The UK Chapter of ISKO is working hard to make this conference a showcase for inspiring, innovative work in our field, and looks forward to welcoming the worldwide KO community to London.
Presentation format, submissions and acceptance criteria
The conference will include a mix of brief (20-minute) and long (40-minute) presentations, as well as a display of posters. Speakers will be asked to provide a paper as well as presenting the material in person. Together with slides and audio recordings, all the papers submitted will be published electronically on the conference website. After peer review the four best papers will be selected for publication in ISKO's journal, Knowledge Organization.
You can submit proposals in the form of an abstract via https://www.conftool.net/iskouk-2017/ from 1st December 2016. (To make the submission you will be asked to set up a user account with Conftool, our service provider.) The closing date for proposals is 31 January 2017. We are looking for papers that will attract a global audience of researchers, teachers, developers and practitioners. Your paper should help to deepen our understanding of knowledge organization, describe challenges and advances in the field, or consider the potential of KO to bring progress and benefits.
Other criteria for acceptance include originality, clarity of expression, and relevance to the conference theme. Proposals should have a sound basis in historical fact, KO theory or current practice.
Please provide an abstract of 300-500 words (including references), and indicate whether you plan a Brief or Long presentation, or a Poster. We will let you know by the end of April 2017 whether your proposal has been accepted. Full papers should be submitted by 31st July 2017. Editorial guidelines will be available via the conference website from early 2017.
More background on ISKO
ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with a mission to promote the theory and practice of organizing knowledge and information. The emphasis in our UK Chapter is to build bridges between the research and practitioner communities, for example at our regular and very popular afternoon meetings. You can see past and future events at Our Events, together with slides and sound recordings for most presentations. The proceedings of our previous biennial conferences are available there too, in electronic media.
Enquiries
Please contact us at info@iskouk.org if you have enquiries about the conference.
Registration
Registration will open in the Spring of 2017.
Liz Marley
ISKO-UK Publicity