[KMDG-L] IFLA Knowledge Management Open Session 2016 Columbus, Ohio

Using social media at work: How to share knowledge, improve collaboration and create a mutual savoir-faire?

By IFLA Knowledge Management Open Session 2016 Columbus, Ohio

In Columbus, Ohio 2016 the Knowledge Management Standing Committee invites you to experiment with new ways of working and to share your own techniques in an exciting new format for an interactive open session. If you use social networks in your institution or if you have out of the ordinary methods for sharing knowledge for everyday work, this "call for demos" is for you!

Tell us how you use social media to share the best practices of your organization, to involve colleagues in new projects, to connect your library with other projects at your institution, to improve your work processes, and to create team spirit. We want you to present your success stories and share with the public live, on stage, with a computer and a use case in a very practical way.

The selection will be based on the following submission criteria:
- An abstract explaining your method in a few words
- A live demo of your concept in 5 minutes through internet (or video)
On the day of the open session, your presentation will be a 20-minute live demo and a 10-minute live exchange with your audience. We look forward to hearing your ideas!

Deadline for the abstract: 18 March 2016 

Send it to julien.sempere@universite-paris-saclay.fr or send it to the KM section through our FB page 

 

Wilda B Newman

[KMDG-L] IFLA KM Satellite Conference scheduled for University of Cincinnati 12 August 2016

IFLA Knowledge Management Satellite Conference
12 August 2016
Langsam Library, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Theme: Sharing Practices and Actions for Making Best Use of Organizational Knowledge in Libraries

Langsam Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

This one-day Satellite Conference will focus on organizational knowledge in all varieties of libraries and information centers with particular attention to best practices and activities for optimal dissemination and use. With a global interest in mind, this Satellite Conference will aim to provide a thoughtful and engaging discussion about an array of worldwide issues regarding the organization of knowledge within library and information settings. 

This Satellite Conference is organized by IFLA Knowledge Management Section.

 

Wilda

Wilda B Newman

Information Coordinator

IFLA Knowledge Management Standing Committee

Wilda B Newman

Knowledge Associates Resources, LLC

5964 Rosinante Run

Columbia, MD 21045 USA

Phone: 1-410-730-7583

Email: wildanewman@yahoo.com

Skype: wildanewman

[KMDG-L] ISKO UK/BCS IRSG: Search Solutions 2015, 26 November 2015, London, UK

Dear IFLA colleagues:

SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2015

Thursday 26 November, Covent Garden, London, UK

(with tutorial programme on Weds 25 November)

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  *** Early Bird rates end 23:59 on 31-Oct-2015 ***

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Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval

Search Solutions is a joint event of ISKO UK and BCS IRSG (Information Retrieval Specialist Group).

Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval. In contrast to

other major industry events, Search Solutions aims to be highly interactive, with attendance strictly limited.

The programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval.

Search Solutions includes a Tutorial Programme on Wednesday 25 November and the main event is on Thursday 26 November.

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09:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee

SESSION 1: WEB SEARCH CHALLENGES

10:00 - 10:10 Introduction

10:10 - 10:40 Behshad Behzadi, Google, Future of Search

10:40 - 11:10 Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo!, Context- and Content-aware Embeddings for Query Rewriting in Sponsored Search

11:10 - 11:40 Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research/Bing, Vectorland: A brief look at text embeddings for Search

11:40 - 12:00 BREAK

SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING USERS AND USER NEEDS

12:00 - 12:30 Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs, User requirements for complex search strategies

12:30 - 13:00 Charlie Hull, Flax, Towards a new model of test-based relevance tuning

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH

SESSION 3: THE CHANGING FACE OF SEARCH

14:00 - 14:30 Alison Weightman, Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group,Searching and screening efficiency: Emerging techniques for systematic review

14:30 - 15:00 Dave Clarke, Synaptica, Searching inside images: Innovations in visual information retrieval

15:00 - 15:30 Tom Crane, Digirati, New things to search

15:30 - 16:00 BREAK

SESSION 4: SEARCHING THE WORLD'S NEWS

16:00 - 16:30 Tessa Radwan, Newspaper Licensing Agency, Handling printed and online news content in one search solution

16:30 - 17:00 David Corney, Signal, Finding relevance in a real-time, large-scale stream of news articles

17:00 - 17:30 Panel Session (confirmed panellists: Miles Osborne (Bloomberg), Peter Wallqvist (RAVN))

17:30 - 20:00 DRINKS RECEPTION

   

TUTORIAL PROGRAMME (25 November)

   Designing Search

   Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs

   Crowdsourcing for Data Processing and Search

   Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield

   Text Analysis with GATE,

   Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield

   Evaluating Search

   Paul Clough, University of Sheffield

   

LOCATION

Search Solutions 2015 is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office:

BCS, 1st Floor

The Davidson Building

5 Southampton Street

London, WC2E 7HA

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8404

REGISTRATION

Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows:

Early Bird Rates (until 23:59 on 31-Oct-2015)

* BCS and ISKO member rate: £99

* Non-member rate: £129

Normal Rates (from 01-Nov-2015)

* BCS and ISKO member rate: £119

* Non-member rate: £149

If signing up as an ISKO member, please quote your ISKO membership number in the appropriate box in the registration form to receive the member rates.

Registration fees include lunch and a copy of the proceedings.

Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening.

Tutorials are payable separately. The registration fees for tutorials are as follows:

Early Bird Rates (until 23:59 on 31-Oct-2015)

* BCS and ISKO member rate: £90

* Non-member rate: £110

Normal Rates (from 01-Nov-2015)

* BCS and ISKO member rate: £110

* Non-member rate: £130

If signing up as an ISKO member, please quote your ISKO membership number in the appropriate box in the registration form to receive the member rates.

Closing Date for tutorial bookings is 23:59 on Wednesday 11th November 2015.

No more bookings will be taken after this date.

We are pleased to announce up to five fee waivers for students wishing to attend Search Solutions this year. See website for further details:

http://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2015/sse2015.php

Hope to see you there

Liz Marley
Publicity, ISKO UK

[KMDG-L] Final Invitation : Classification & Authority Control - 29-30 October, Lisbon

[apologies for cross-posting]

=== Registration closes on 25 October ===

The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority
Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National
Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.

Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015
Contact: seminar2015@udcc.org

Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting
controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery.
Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes.
These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the
linked data environment.

The objective of this conference is to explore such potential, expanding the
value and use of classification as an authority controlled vocabulary, from a
local perspective to the global environment.

Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel,
Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês
Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber,
Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu.

Proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the
conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015

Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon

Organizer: UDC Consortium

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* International UDC Seminar 2015: Classification and Authority Control - http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/
* UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php
* UDC Summary (over 50 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php

The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool
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[KMDG-L] Reminder: Classification & Authority Control - 29-30 October, Lisbon

[apologies for cross-posting]

=== Registration closes on 20 October ===

The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority
Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National
Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.

Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015
Contact: seminar2015@udcc.org

Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting
controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery.
Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes.
These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the
linked data environment.

The objective of this conference is to explore such potential, expanding the
value and use of classification as an authority controlled vocabulary, from a
local perspective to the global environment.

Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel,
Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês
Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber,
Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu.

Proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the
conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015

Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon

Organizer: UDC Consortium

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* International UDC Seminar 2015: Classification and Authority Control - http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/
* UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php
* UDC Summary (over 50 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php

The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool
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[KMDG-L] Registration Open – IFLA Agricultural Libraries Section

Registration Open � IFLA Agricultural Libraries Section

Dear Colleagues!!!
We need 15 more registrations to form the section.
It is said that everything else can wait but not agriculture.
Recognizing the activities of IFLA Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group (SIG) in addressing emerging issues, trends, and issues of continuing interest for over a decade the IFLA Governing Board has granted permission to investigate interest to join the Agricultural Libraries Section. We need 15 more members expressing interest in joining the section. Your willingness to join the section will greatly benefit the farmers worldwide.

For Registration Form and other details please contact:

Deva E. Reddy, PhD
Associate Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-5000
Tel.979-862-1062 Fax.979-458-0112
dereddy@tamu.edu

[KMDG-L] Invitation for Registration: Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery, Lisbon 29-30 October

=== Invitation for Registration ===

The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority
Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National
Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.

Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015.
Contact: seminar2015@udcc.org

The objective of the conference is to explore issues in managing
classification vocabulary in and between information systems. Particular
emphasis will be on the possibilities for exploiting and sharing subject
authority data in the linked data environment.

Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel,
Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês
Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber,
Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu.

Proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the
conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015

Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon

Conference fee: € 250 (students 210)

Organizer: UDC Consortium

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[KMDG-L] ISKO UK learning and teaching afternoon event Oct 7

Dear Colleagues,

Don't forget to book for the ISKO UK event on Knowledge Organization in Learning and Teaching . It will be held on Wednesday, 7 October 2015, at the Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London. The event runs from 13.30 (when Registration begins) until 17.30, and will be followed by networking, drinks and nibbles until 19.00. Booking will close on October 2nd. The event is free for our members, but obviously capacity is limited!

We have a confirmed line up of speakers:

·        Phil Barker (Heriot-Watt University and Cetis) talking about schema.org for enhancing the discovery of educational resources,

·        Bryan Johnson (Institute of Education) presenting a case study of updating the IoE's Thesaurus,

·        Madi Solomon discussing the W3C Open Linked Education Community Group,

·        Peter Winstanley (Scottish Government) discussing linked open data in careers information.

There will be opportunities for questions, discussion and networking over drinks and nibbles afterwards.

Registration for the event and more details can be found via the ISKO UK event page for Knowledge Organization in Learning and Teaching

Best regards and hope to see you!
The ISKO UK team.

[KMDG-L] Invitation for Registration: Classification & Authority Control, Lisbon 29-30 October

***Invitation for Registration ***

The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority
Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National
Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.

Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015.
Contact: seminar2015@udcc.org

The objective of the conference is to explore issues in managing
classification vocabulary in and between information systems. Particular
emphasis will be on the possibilities for exploiting and sharing subject
authority data in the linked data environment.

Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel,
Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês
Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber,
Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu.

Proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the
conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015

Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon

Conference fee: € 250 (students 210)

Organizer: UDC Consortium

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[KMDG-L] Primary Research Group has published Law Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection, ISBN 978-157440-353-4

Primary Research Group has published Law Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection, ISBN 978-157440-353-4

The 100+ page study presents highly detailed data from a survey of 66 North American law libraries, including 24 law school libraries, 19 courthouse of other government law libraries, 3 private company law libraries and 20 law firm libraries.

The report helps its readers to answer questions such as: how much are law libraries currently spending and plan to spend on print forms of books, treatises, digests, loose-leaf services, directories, legal encyclopedias, journals, newspapers, magazines and more. What guides print culling philosophies? What mistakes have librarians made in their print purchasing or print reduction programs? What is the role of surveying library patrons about their print vs. online preferences? Are some areas resistant to print culling? Which ones? What has been the impact of interlibrary loan and other forms of print materials sharing on print spending and title maintenance?

The study looks at both primary and secondary legal materials as well as non-legal subject materials.

Just a few of the report�s many findings are that:

� The cumulative 2-year drop in spending on print resources from 2014-2016 by the law firms in the sample is expected to be 22.6%.
� For small law firm libraries the number of subscriptions to print journals went from 66.67 to 51.67 and then to an anticipated 45 over the three year period, a cumulative 2-year drop of 32%.
� Primary works accounted for a mean of 35.53% of spending on print legal materials with a median of 30% and a range of 5% to 90%. For law school libraries, print primary materials accounted for 54% of the total print materials budget, a much higher percentage than for law firm libraries 28%, or government law libraries, 32.86%.

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

[KMDG-L] Current Science news "UNESCO Launches Open Access Curriculum for Young and Early Career Researchers"

UNESCO Launches Open Access Curriculum for Young and Early Career Researchers. Current Science, 10 August 2015, 109(3), 400-401.

Abstract: This article narrates the background of UNESCO Curriculum titled "Open Access for Researchers" which was launched on 16th March 2015. This Open Access Curriculum contains five modules for capacity building, awareness raising and sensitizing young and early career researchers affiliated to research laboratories or higher educational institutions across the world.

Download: http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/109/03/0400.pdf

[KMDG-L] IFLA KM Newsletter No. 18 June 2015 Now Online

The Knowledge Management Newsletter No. 18/June 2015 is the pre-conference issue looking forward to 81th IFLA General Conference and Assembly to be held 15-21 August 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. IFLA KM Chair, Leda Bultrini provides a general look at what's to come, specific to the content of the KM sessions and the content of this newsletter, with special note on the KM Section Satellite Meeting and Open Session. This issue indicates what attendees need to know prior to their attendance in Cape Town and will serve as a handy reference guide in paper copy or electronic. Our three keynote speakers have interviews here, so you can get to know them, and 14 new members are introduced before joining us at our business meetings in Cape Town. A guest columnist, Olivier Serrat, addresses the question, What Knowledge Management Means to You? (Serrat was our keynote speaker for our satellite meeting in Lyon, 2014.) Links are provided to highlights of the general conference and information is also included on IFLA WLIC 2016, with links to planning for Columbus, Ohio, USA.

 

[KMDG-L] Final Reminder: ISKO UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE – 13/14 July 2015, London

Dear Colleagues,
Please miss the chance to book for the ISKO UK biennial conference in London on 13/14 July 2015 by July 5th.  With a theme of Knowledge Organization – Making a difference, this conference gives us all the opportunity to reflect on the continuing demand for  Knowledge Organization (KO). It will be a showcase for R & D that offers benefits as a discipline, for cultural activities and economic development, and an opportunity to consider the impact that KO has had, is having and will have.

Details at: http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference

Registration at: https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/

Some highlights

·         As Keynote speakers we have Dagobert Soergel and Alan Gilchrist, both influential writers and speakers in the field. While Gilchrist reflects on the advances already achieved through KO, Soergel looks to a future in which KO structures enable connections, inferencing, understanding and exploiting information.

·         Patrick Lambe, already a popular speaker at our past conferences, returns to urge a proactive role for KO professionals in designing and developing networked knowledge environments. He will also facilitate an interactive fish-bowl session for all of us to discuss what we can do  to implement KO effectively and raise its profile.

·         Joining us from the USA, Joseph Busch will share his extensive consultancy experience in applying classification principles both in-house and on the Web.

·         "Using Knowledge Organization Systems requires proper tools to manage them" is the declaration of Johannes Keizer and Caterina Caracciolo from the FAO , where the AGRIS database has evolved to become a KOS-based Linked Open Data web application underpinned by VocBench, a state of the art editor for KOS enabling automatic alignment of vocabularies.

There are many more speakers in the provisional programme at http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference, where you can also find details such as venue and registration fees. To make a booking you will need to go to https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/ and set up a user account. Priced at just 180 pounds for members and students, and 210 pounds for non-members, this two-day event offers exceptional value for money. Please don't delay in booking your place!

There's a social meet-up too, on the Sunday evening before. On behalf of ISKO UK, I look forward to seeing you there.
AnnaHarvey
Publicity, ISKO UK
www.iskouk.org

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More background

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 on building 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 (including slides, papers and audio) of our previous biennial conferences are available there too; see for example http://www.iskouk.org/content/isko-uk-conference-2013-knowledge-organization-pushing-boundaries.

[KMDG-L] Early Bird Registration: Classification & Authority Control, Lisbon, 29-30 October 2015

=== Early Bird Registration ===

The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.

Conference website:  http://seminar.udcc.org/2015.
Contact: seminar2015@udcc.org

Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery. Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes. These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the linked data environment. The objective of this conference is to explore such potential, expanding the value and use of classification as an authority controlled vocabulary, from a local perspective to the global environment.

The conference will be opened by Emer. Prof. Michael Buckland, well-known expert in the history and theory of documentation and bibliographic access.
The topic of authority control, subject authority control and subject access in various contexts will be discussed by a series of eminent speakers speakers including Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja Zumer, Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Andrea Scharnhorst, Maria Ines Cordeiro, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015

Early bird registration opened on 12 June 2015:
€200 early bird fee, students €160 (to 31 July)
€250 regular fee, students €210 (closes 20 October)

About the organizer: Classification & Authority Control is the fifth biennial conference in a series of International 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.

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[KMDG-L] Just released, #‎ITU150‬ special ‪film on the fascinating History of Telecom

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Just released, #‎ITU150‬ special ‪film on the fascinating History of Telecom

ITU History (1865-2015): The world is more connected than ever before and the story of ITU is the story of connecting the world. Watch this video and discover the fascinating history of telecommunications over the last 150 years.
View: http://youtu.be/R0jYVjs_dyQ

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Dr. Anup Kumar Das
Web: www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com
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[KMDG-L] ISKOUK Biennial conference 13/14 July 2015in London - Knowledge Organization – Making a difference

Dear Colleagues,
  Don't missthe ISKO UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE on 13/14 July 2015 . With a theme of Knowledge Organization – Making a difference, this conference will explore, justify and proclaim the continuing demand for Knowledge Organization (KO). It will be a showcase for R & D that offers benefits in your workplace, for cultural activities and economic development, and an opportunity to consider the impact that KO has had, is having and will have.

Details of the programme and arrangements may be found at: http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference

Who should attend

This conference caters amply for practitioners alongside theoreticians, including consultants, researchers, teachers and students. Knowledge Organization is useful to systems designers as well as information managers, with applications in areas as diverse as web design, records management, digital libraries and asset management, network management, etc. Sharing ideas is the way to advance your own thinking – do come and join the discussions!

Some highlights

·         As Keynote speakers we have Alan Gilchrist and Dagobert Soergel, both influential writers and speakers in the field. While Gilchrist reflects on the advances already achieved through KO, Soergel looks to a future in which KO structures enable connections, inferencing, understanding and exploiting information.

·         Patrick Lambe, already a popular speaker at our past conferences, returns to urge a proactive role for KO professionals in designing and developing networked knowledge environments. He will also facilitate an interactive fishbowl session for all of us to discuss what we can do in the workplace to implement KO effectively and raise its profile.

·         Joining us from the USA, Joseph Busch will share his extensive consultancy experience in applying classification principles both in-house and on the Web.

·         "Using Knowledge Organization Systems requires proper tools to manage them" is the declaration of Johannes Keizer and Caterina Caracciolo from the FAO , where the AGRIS database has evolved to become a KOS-based Linked Open Data web application underpinned by VocBench, a state of the art editor for KOS enabling automatic alignment of vocabularies.

There are many more speakers in the provisional programme at http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference, where you can also find details such as venue and registration fees. To make a booking you will need to go to https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/ and set up a user account. Priced at £180  for members and students, and £210  for non-members, this two-day event offers exceptional value for money. Please don't delay in booking your place!

We look forward to seeing you there
www.iskouk.org

*************
More background

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 on building 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 (including slides, papers and audio) of our previous biennial conferences are available there too; see for example http://www.iskouk.org/content/isko-uk-conference-2013-knowledge-organization-pushing-boundaries.
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[KMDG-L] ISKO UK biennial conference "Knowledge Organization – Making a difference" – 13/14 July 2015, London. Early Bird rates until end April

Dear colleagues
Take advantage of Early Bird rates until the end of April for

Knowledge Organization – Making a difference. ISKO UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE – 13/14 July 2015, London

Details, fees, and a great draft programme are available at: http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference

Registration at: https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/

The systematic and structured organization of knowledge and information has far-reaching applications, best known in the search, browsing, navigation and exploration of collections and networks. But despite this capability, "what use is classification nowadays?" some people ask. "The era of the physical library is fading, and Google will find whatever we want." This widely held view  forgets the way organized collections of scientific and cultural literature have underpinned study and development throughout the last 2-3 millennia, and neglects our current and future reliance on knowledge organization (KO). It ignores the current capabilities and upcoming potential of  KO techniques and networked KOSs, not just to provide sophisticated access to a world of existing knowledge, but also to stimulate and support new discoveries.

This conference aims to explore, justify and proclaim the continuing demand for KO. It will be a showcase for R & D that offers benefits for cultural activities and economic development, and an opportunity to consider the impact that KO has had, is having and will have.

Who should attend

This conference caters amply for practitioners alongside theoreticians, including consultants, researchers, teachers and students. Knowledge Organization is useful to systems designers as well as information managers, with applications in areas as diverse as web design, records management, digital libraries and asset management, network management, etc. Sharing ideas is the way to advance your own thinking – do come and join the discussions!

Some highlights

·         As Keynote speakers we have Alan Gilchrist and Dagobert Soergel, both influential writers and speakers in our field. While Gilchrist reflects on the advances already achieved through KO, Soergel looks to a future in which KO structures enable connections, inferencing, understanding and exploiting information.

·         Patrick Lambe, already a popular speaker at our past conferences, returns to urge a proactive role for KO professionals in designing and developing networked knowledge environments. He will also facilitate an interactive fishbowl session for all of us to discuss what we can do in the workplace to implement KO effectively and raise its profile.

·         Joining us from the USA, Joseph Busch will share his extensive consultancy experience in applying classification principles both in-house and on the Web.

·         "Using Knowledge Organization Systems requires proper tools to manage them" is the declaration of Johannes Keizer and Caterina Caracciolo from the FAO , where the AGRIS database has evolved to become a KOS-based Linked Open Data web application underpinned by VocBench, a state of the art editor for KOS enabling automatic alignment of vocabularies.

There are many more speakers in the provisional programme at http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference, where you can also find details such as venue and registration fees. To make a booking you will need to go to https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/ and set up a user account. An early bird discount applies until 30^th April, so don't delay in booking your place!

On behalf of ISKO UK, we look forward to seeing you there,
Anna Harvey

ISKO UK publicity

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