Steve,
Fair comment. I should have made it clear that I was just quoting your CILIP
Update article and that you aren't involved in the event, at least not this
one. ISKO UK is just keen to involve the RM community in discussions on the
wider issues in information management, which we took to be the theme of
your article. Apologies if we appeared to imply your endorsement of the
event in our notice.
Bob
Bob Bater
Vice-chair, ISKO UK
Principal Associate
InfoPlex Associates, UK
www.infoplex-uk.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The UK Records Management mailing list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Steve Bailey -
> JISC infoNet
> Sent: 01 October 2007 08:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ISKO event 5th November: "Ranganathan revisited: facets for
> the future"
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The UK Records Management mailing list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bob Bater
> Sent: 28 September 2007 21:26
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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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