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Apologies for cross posting. There’s still time (budgets permitting) to register for ISKO UK.
Phil
Phil Carlisle
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From: UK Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stella Dextre Clarke
Sent: 29 June 2015 09:14
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Subject: Final Reminder: ISKO UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE – 13/14 July 2015, London
Dear Colleagues,
There's still just enough time to book for this year's event, in London on 13/14 July 2015. (Deadline for bookings 5th July.) With a theme of Knowledge Organization – Making a difference, this conference gives us all the opportunity to reflect on the business we are in. It will be a showcase for R & D that offers benefits as a discipline, for cultural activities and economic development, and an opportunity to consider the impact that KO has had, is having and will have. It's also a great networking opportunity.
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 Alan Gilchrist and Dagobert Soergel, both influential writers and speakers in our 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, Joseph Busch will share his extensive consultancy experience in applying classification principles both in-house and on the Web.
· “Using Knowledge Organization Systems requires proper tools to manage them” is the declaration of Johannes Keizer and Caterina Caracciolo from the FAO , where the 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 provisional 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 pounds for members and students, and 210 pounds for non-members, this two-day event offers exceptional value for money. Please don’t delay in booking your place!
Stella Dextre Clarke
Vice-Chair, ISKO UK
www.iskouk.org
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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 on building 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 Our Events, together with slides and sound recordings for most presentations. The proceedings (including slides, papers and audio) of our previous biennial conferences are available there too; see for example http://www.iskouk.org/content/isko-uk-conference-2013-knowledge-organization-pushing-boundaries.
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Stella Dextre Clarke
Vice-Chair, ISKO UK and Vice-President, ISKO
Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RR, UK
Tel: 01235-833-298
Fax: 01235-863-298
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