[KMDG-L] ISKO UK biennial Conference booking, London July 8/9

Dear Colleagues,

Now is the time to book for our July conference while there are still places. We have made a few rearrangements to the programme and now have 30 mainstream presentations, as well as six posters and two demonstrations from each of our generous sponsors, PoolParty and Smartlogic.  Among our international array of speakers at least ten countries are represented. For details see http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/programme.htm

 

The theme is: “Knowledge Organization - Pushing the Boundaries”

 

Knowledge Organization (KO) is not just a fascinating research domain to attract our foremost thinkers; it also presents practical challenges to each of us as individuals, sorting out the files on our desktops physical and virtual, searching for inspiration via the Internet, or participating in the fora of social media. But there’s a paradox: while KO practices permeate society, the name “Knowledge Organization” is known only to a few. Invisible boundaries separate KO researchers from the practitioners who could benefit from their findings, and also come between distinct fields of application such as records management, web design, librarianship, information retrieval, etc.

 

This conference aims to explore such boundaries, challenge them and advance our thinking into new territory. It will be the third biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO. Practitioners as well as theoreticians are invited to attend and participate, along with consultants, researchers, teachers and students. There will be a mix of short and longer presentations, as well as a display of posters. The papers submitted will be peer-reviewed and published electronically on this website, together with slides and audio recordings. Four papers will be selected for publication in the ISKO journal “Knowledge Organization”.

 

On our website at <http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/index.htm> you can find more details, including the programme, and register. 33 Presentations are scheduled, including keynote addresses from leading lights Patrick Lambe and Martin White. Two of the sessions will be co-organized by our sister associations, UKeiG and LIRG respectively. In both cases the focus will be on  the interplay between KO research and adoption of the results in practice, followed by some interactive discussion.

 

Registration fees for the two-day event are still the same as for our

2011 conference, just

 

180 pounds (full price)

150 pounds (ISKO members)

Members of UKeiG or LIRG are entitled to the ISKO members’ rate

 

You can see the electronic proceedings of our first and second biennial conferences at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/proceedings.htm and http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/programme.htm respectively. The 2013 event will be bigger and better than either of these, and we hope you will be able to come and enjoy it.

 

Best regards

ISKO UK publicity

 

Conference hashtag #ISKOUK2013

 

 

 

 

[KMDG-L] Fwd: REGISTRATION OPEN: Classification & Visualization, 24-25 October 2013

 === REGISTRATION OPEN ===

International UDC Seminar 2013 entitled "Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on Thursday 24 - Friday 25 October in the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague

Conference website:  http://seminar.udcc.org/2013.

The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications.

The conference will be opened by Emer. Prof. W. Boyd Rayward, well-known historian of the international organization of knowledge and the history of documentation and information science. His keynote address will set the scene for discussions on models and metaphors of knowledge and information visualization that bridge historical and technological perspectives.

A series of eminent speakers will follow: Lev Manovich, Kathryn La Barre, Fabrice Papy, Marcel Worring, Luca Rosati, Andrea Resmini, Scott Weingart, Richard Smiraglia, Charles van den Heuvel, Andrea Scharnhorst etc.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2013

Early bird registration opens on 15 May 2013:
€180 early bird fee, students €140 (to 30 June)
€220 regular fee, students €180

Contact: seminar2013@udcc.org

About the organizer: Classification & Visualization is the fourth biennial conference in a series of UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain.

[KMDG-L] Primary Research Group Inc., has published The Survey of Library Use of Open Source Software, ISBN 978-157440-239-1

Primary Research Group Inc., has published The Survey of Library Use of Open Source Software, ISBN 978-157440-239-1.

This 125+ page report looks closely at how public, academic and special libraries are using open source solutions for email, integrated library systems, word processing and spreadsheets, the library website, server management, and content management and digital preservation software, among other applications. The study looks at which libraries use open source and which use commercial software and why. The study helps librarians and library information technology staff to answer questions such as: what are the most popular open source applications? How much of an IT or software support staff must a library have to succeed with open source alternatives? How much do libraries spend in supporting open source solutions in both funding and staff time? How much does the use of open source software save them? What areas of library operations have been most impacted by open source? How many open source solutions are libraries of different size staffs and different types using? Ho!
w many have started with an open source solutions in a given area and then abandoned it? How do libraries evaluate their own success or failure with open source? What are the open source solutions they are most anxious to try in the future? Which outside services do they recommend to support open source alternatives? Which information sources about open source do they find most useful?

Just a few of the study�s major findings include:

� Nearly 91% of respondents said that they had never experienced any downtime using open source email alternatives.
� More than two thirds of the libraries sampled have ever replaced a commercial software system with an open source alternative.
� Nearly 43% of the academic libraries in the sample use an open source alternative for content management software.
� Public libraries in the sample spent a mean of 960 staff hours per year in adjusting or maintaining open source software systems.

The questionnaire for the report was largely designed by Frederick Zarndt, consultant to Digital Divide Data, Content Conversion Specialists, DL Consulting and Chair, Newspaper Section, International Federation of Libraries and Associations.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.