Details at: http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference
Registration at: https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/
Some highlights
· As Keynote speakers we have
Dagobert Soergel and Alan Gilchrist,
both influential writers and speakers in the field. While
Gilchrist reflects on the advances already achieved through KO,
Soergel looks to a future in which KO structures enable
connections, inferencing, understanding and exploiting
information.
· Patrick Lambe, already a
popular speaker at our past conferences, returns to urge a
proactive role for KO professionals in designing and developing
networked knowledge environments. He will also facilitate an interactive fish-bowl
session for all of us to discuss what we can do to
implement KO effectively and raise its profile.
· Joining us from the USA, we
are delighted to welcome Joseph Busch, who will
share his extensive consultancy experience in applying
classification principles both in-house and on the Web.
· Johannes Keizer and Caterina
Caracciolo from the FAO declare that “Using
Knowledge Organization Systems requires proper tools to manage
them”. Their AGRIS database has evolved to become a KOS-based
Linked Open Data web application underpinned by VocBench, a state
of the art editor for KOS enabling automatic alignment of
vocabularies.
There are many more speakers in the programme at http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference, where you can also find details such as venue and registration fees. To make a booking you will need to go to https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/ and set up a user account. Priced at just £180 for members and students, and £210 for non-members, this two-day event offers exceptional value for money. Please don’t delay in booking your place!
There's a social meet-up too, on the Sunday evening before. On behalf of ISKO UK, I look forward to seeing you there.
Apologies for any cross-posting
Anna Harvey
Publicity, ISKO UK
www.iskouk.org
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