The ISKO UK (International Society for Knowledge Organization - UK
Chapter) meeting on organizing visual resources will take place in
London on Wednesday 31st November. There is still time to book, which
you can do online at
<http://www.iskouk.org/events/Images_in_focus_Nov2012.htm>
where you can see the full programme. The introductory text is as follows:
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Though largely confined to text-based resources through much of its
history, Knowledge Organization has always had to cope with visual
materials. Art galleries, photo libraries, film and video collections
have hitherto largely 'done their own thing', adapting techniques
designed for textual resources to visual content. However, it can be
argued that communication today places as much emphasis upon visual
materials as upon text and that visual materials need special attention.
The rise first of film and then television, has accelerated the growth
of visual content beyond imagination. With the more recent digital
revolution, the emergence of the World Wide Web as a global 'library',
and with 72 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, the need to
develop improved approaches to cataloguing and indexing of visual
content has become even more urgent.
In the first session, this event examines some examples of current best
practice: in image collection cataloguing, in IPR management for images
and in the use of a standards-based approach to a national film
collection. In the second session, three speakers will describe how
computer-based image analysis and crowdsourcing techniques are being
investigated as a means of by-passing the bottleneck posed by the need
for human cataloguing and indexing. The afternoon will end with a Panel
Q&A session followed by a wine-and-nibbles fuelled networking opportunity.
The event is free to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for
non-members is just £40. All fees must be paid in advance - there is no
provision for payment on arrival.
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Leonard Will, on behalf of ISKO UK
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