7th ISKO-Spain Conference
The human dimension of knowledge organisation
Barcelona 6-8 July 2005

The focus of the 7th ISKO-Spain Conference is on orienting users of systems and
applications of information organisation and retrieval in companies, public
administration, archives and document centres, portals or internet services,
databases and digital libraries.

Knowledge organization has traditionally been centred on representational
objects -texts, images and documents in general- or on computer systems that
facilitate information retrieval.  It is ever more apparent that there is a
need to take into consideration the cognitive, physical, and affective
characteristics of different types of people when designing applications. 
Currently, with the availability of personalized systems that facilitate the
interaction between persons and organisation systems, questions are being asked
such as:
-How to improve universal access to information?
-How to obtain maximum performance from the management of knowledge in
organizations?
-How to incorporate users into the design cycles of knowledge organization
systems?
-How to respond to differences (social, cultural, etc.) of the users of these
systems?

TOPICS

· Theoretical base of knowledge organization: what it contributes to
understanding the context of human perception; linguistic, social and cultural
bases; and structures for representing knowledge.

· Design centred on the user of knowledge organization systems: management of
content in different systems; usability, personalization, interoperability and
multilingualism; design models based on artificial intelligence and natural
language processing; its evaluation.

· Users and use of knowledge organization systems: search behaviour and the
social use of Internet; training and competence in information handling;
accessibility and the digital divide between different sectors of society;
detecting needs for accessing web-based contents and electronic training for
the disabled.

· Applications of knowledge organization systems: the market for knowledge
organization systems; content classification systems (categories and taxonomies
of web sites); intermediaries, disintermediation and re-intermediation; ethical
aspects.

SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS OF PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

Authors have to present an abstract of their work -either oral presentations or
posters- that will be reviewed by an evaluation committee as to timeliness,
interest and originality.

Abstracts of presentations should be at least 700 words long. They should
include: title, objectives and the premise of the work, methodology followed,
conclusions arrived at and, if relevant, references to 3 works used as a
bibliography. The length foreseen for the presentation, not to exceed 20
minutes, should also be indicated.

Abstracts of posters should be 500 words long and include titles, objectives,
conclusions and a formal description of the poster.

In all cases the name and address (post and electronic) with the contact's
telephone should be provided for each presenter.

Abstracts should be sent by e-mail in MS Word or another compatible format to
[log in to unmask]. Acceptance of the abstract of a presentation requires the
tacit commitment that at least one of the authors will be present to make the
presentation during the congress.

The working languages of the conference will be Catalan, Spanish and the
English although works may be submitted in other languages.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: 25 OCTOBER 2004


Additional contact information:

7th ISKO-Spain Conference
http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/
Technical Secretariat of the Conference
Departament de Biblioteconomia i Documentació de la Universitat de
Barcelona Edifici UB-Sants
Melcior de Palau, 140
08014 Barcelona, SPAIN
Tel. (34) 93 403 57 67
Fax (34) 93 403 57 72
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