Given that my name seems to appear rather prominently in the
advertisement for this event I would just like to make it clear that I
am not involved in this event in any way and am not speaking at it.
Indeed reading this posting was the first I had heard of it so am unable
to comment on whether its contents will in any way address any of the
issues I raised in my CILIP article.
With thanks
Steve Bailey
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From: The UK Records Management mailing list
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Sent: 28 September 2007 21:26
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Subject: ISKO event 5th November: "Ranganathan revisited: facets for the
future"
To all Records Management UK List members (apologies for any
duplications):
Classification was a subject of some discussion at this year's RMS GB
conference in Brighton. Classification is a broad topic reaching far
beyond
the boundaries of any one discipline. Faceted classification is
currently in
the spotlight, but is it relevant to records management? According to
Steve
Bailey of JISC Infonet, it could well be.
In a recent article in CILIP Update, Steve argued for the need to 'adapt
records management practice to encompass a far wider body of data and
information'. But you should make up your own mind. Come along to the
event
below, and find out about faceted classification. It's free.
ISKO UK (the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge
Organization) would like to invite you to the second in the series of
KOnnecting KOmmunities (KOKO) events entitled "Ranganathan revisited:
facets
for the future". The event will be held in London on 5th November 2007
(14:00 - 18:00). KOKO events are designed to bring together
practitioners
and theorists around a theme of interest to both communities, and we do
hope
you will be able to attend.
S. R. Ranganathan was the Indian librarian and academic who, in the
1930s,
developed the theory of faceted classification. Faceted classification
is an
approach to presenting and organizing knowledge based on the
identification
of fundamental subject categories ('facets') that allows the combination
of
relevant values from one or more facets to define a compound subject (or
information object) with great precision.
At ISKO UK's KOKO event on November 5, theory and practice will be
juxtaposed in a stimulating rapprochement long overdue. Speakers from
academia will ask whether faceted classification is not in fact, the
paradigm for effective retrieval and discovery of knowledge, and will
examine the relative merits of a number of different approaches.
Independent
software developers, Jan Wyllie and Simon Eaton will talk about and
demonstrate faceted classification as an intelligence analysis
tool. Factiva, market leaders in business information provision, will
demonstrate how faceted classification combined with visualization and
user
interaction lies behind their award-winning information services.
Netherlands-based company Aduna will present their open-source
facet-driven
enterprise search solution AutoFocus, followed by an opportunity for
speakers and attendees to mingle in a networking session supplemented by
wine and nibbles provided courtesy of Factiva.
ISKO UK KOKO events are free for all to attend. For this event, we
extend
our thanks to Factiva for their sponsorship, and to UCL's School of
Library,
Archive and Information Studies, for providing the venue.
For full details on the venue, programme and to book your place visit
http://www.iskouk.org/kokonov2007.htm.
Bob Bater
Vice-chair
ISKO UK
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