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Early Bird registration for the ISKO UK 2011 Conference [1] is now
underway, with reduced fees for bookings completed on or before
Friday 29th April. After that date the standard fees will be payable.
You can find out more details of the event and register via
“Registration” on the conference site. [2]
This multi-faceted conference honours the life and achievements of
Brian C Vickery, a pioneer in our field. The venue is the Roberts
building University College London [3], with the theme _FACETS OF
KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION._ Places are limited and this will be an
intimate, lively and engaging event
It will include 25 first-class presentations, reflecting not just
current research but also the challenges of turning R&D results into
practice.
10 posters will enliven the networking breaks. Once again, we have
attracted speakers from several countries as well the UK, and are
delighted to welcome them to the Conference. Brian Vickery would have
been thrilled with the range on offer, and with the rich mix of
speakers giving their papers on topics from faceted classification to
tagging behaviour and the exploitation of linked data at the BBC. The
revival of Jason Farradane’s work on relational indexing would have
caught his attention too.
This year the Proceedings will be published and sent to all those
attending the Conference, including not only the presented papers,
but a selection of papers either by, or about, Brian Vickery.
Our keynote speakers include Stephen Robertson, who, after leaving
the Aslib Research Department under Brian Vickery, spent many years
leading the Centre for Interactive Systems at City University and is
now a full-time researcher at the Microsoft Research Laboratory in
Cambridge; and Amanda Spink, recently appointed to the Chair in
Information Science at Loughborough University, moving from the
School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.
Details of the programme are available on the website.
It is a pleasure also to include a session selected and hosted by
our colleagues in NKOS (Networked Knowledge Organization
Systems/Services). Of the other sessions shortly to be announced,
there will be at least one dedicated to an appreciation of
Vickery’s legacy.
We look forward to your participation in this event.
ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with
the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain
of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information
science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has
been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its
afternoon meeting series [4] as well as its very successful first
conference [5] in 2009.
Links:
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[1] http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm
[2] http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm
[3] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
[4] http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm
[5] http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/proceedings.htm
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