[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.