[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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