Dear List members
Don't miss this opportunity to make a presentation at the ISKO-UK
conference next year. The submission process is easy - just fill in a
title and abstract of 300-500 words. To make it even easier, the
submissions deadline has been extended from 29 November to 7 December
2014. See also http://www.iskouk.org/conf2015/index.htm
More information:
*Knowledge Organization **- Making a difference*
The impact of knowledge organization on society, scholarship and progress
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*ISKO-UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE -- 13/14 July 2015, London. *This will be
the fourth biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO (International
Society for Knowledge Organization). The venue (as for our previous
conferences) is University College London (UCL).
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 threatens our budgets as well as the
reputation of our profession and our ability to attract thought leaders
into the field. As well as forgetting the way organized collections of
scientific and cultural literature have underpinned study and
development throughout the last 2-3 millennia, it neglects our current
and future reliance on knowledge organization (KO). For example, KO
techniques are used behind the scenes in Google and other search
engines, and much more explicitly in intranets, records management
systems and other in-house applications where Google simply fails.
This conference is an opportunity for our speakers to show what impact
KO has had, is having and could have on economic and social development
(at macro and/or micro levels). If academic courses are to attract
students, if research bids are to attract funding, if KO techniques are
to be applied on the internet and in corporate environments, and if
trained KO professionals are to find plenty of good jobs, the subject
should be widely respected as contributing to the general good.
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. Practitioners as well as
theoreticians are invited to contribute, along with consultants,
researchers, teachers and students. Knowledge Organization can be useful
to systems designers as well as information managers, with applications
in areas as diverse as web design, records management, digital asset
management, network management, etc. So we hope for a wide spread of
perspectives on the KO theme.
*Conference scope and topics*
Any aspect, application or subdiscipline of knowledge organization is in
scope, provided the submission casts light on the potential benefit -
past or present - for society, scholarship and progress. R&D reports
that can be applied in today's mobile, networked environment are
especially welcome. While forward-looking presentations are preferred,
submissions demonstrating that KO offers no future benefit could also be
within scope, and will be considered on their merits. Examples of
relevant topics include:
* The impact of historical KO developments e.g. launch of UDC,
influence of Vannevar Bush, etc.
* Prospects for future influential KO developments
* Trends in current KO research and where they may lead
* Costs and benefits of applying and exploiting techniques such as
classification, social tagging, linked data, corporate taxonomies,
metadata, etc.
* Case studies/outcomes of applying KO within the enterprise
* Prospects for integrating more KO techniques into applications such
as email, records management, online sales outlets, social media
* Evaluation/appraisal of social tagging
* Linked open data initiatives and their impact
* Use of metadata in coordinating or simplifying workflows
* Ontologies to improve search results across networked resources
* Semantic modelling applications
* KO applied to "Big Data"
* Development and impact of vocabulary crosswalks and registries
* Tools, techniques, training and applications for KOS alignment
* KO for improving access to images or audio collections
*Presentation format, submissions and acceptance criteria*
The conference will include a mix of brief (20-minute) and long
(40-minute) presentations, as well as a display of posters. Speakers
will be asked to provide a paper as well as presenting the material in
person. Together with slides and audio recordings, all the papers
submitted will be published electronically on the conference website.
After peer review the four best papers will be selected for publication
in ISKO's journal, Knowledge Organization.
Proposals should be submitted in English via
<https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/>
<https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/> after 8 October and before 29
November 2014 at latest. (To make the submission you will be asked to
set up a user account with Conftool, our service provider.) The extent
to which they demonstrate the benefits and/or impact of Knowledge
Organization will be the first criterion for acceptance; other important
factors include originality, clarity of expression and a sound basis on
theory or current practice. Please provide an abstract of 300-500 words,
and indicate whether you plan a Brief or Long presentation, or a Poster.
You will be informed by the first week of February 2015 whether your
proposal has been accepted. Full papers should be submitted by 1 May
2015. Editorial guidelines will be available from February 2015, via the
conference website. Presentation slides too should be submitted by 8
July 2015. They will be pre-loaded on the conference PC, and released on
the conference website immediately after the event.
*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 to build 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 <www.iskouk.org/events.htm <http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm>>, most
with MP3 recordings. The proceedings of our previous biennial
conferences are available there too, in electronic media.
Leonard Will
ISKO UK
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