The Shape of Knowledge
Tuesday 4th September (14.00-18.00)
London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6SB
In this ISKO UK meeting, the focus will be on the ways in which
knowledge and information can be analyzed and presented, for example to
bring out underlying patterns or to emphasize specific aspects of the
information. The meeting will also examine some of the organizing
principles behind the presentation and different approaches to
visualizing data, information and (by extension) knowledge. This event
should appeal not only to those whose main business is the organization
of knowledge, and who wish to disseminate this knowledge as effectively
as possible, but also to designers, whose main concern is how design can
be used to present knowledge and information in the most attractive and
appealing way.
You will find the programme and other details of the event, and can
register via the ISKO UK site at
http://www.iskouk.org/events/shape_of_knowledge_Sep2012.htm. The event
is free to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for
non-members is just £40. All fees must be paid in advance - there is no
provision for payment on arrival. Registration opens at 1.30 and we
shall start promptly at 2 p.m. Please pass this invitation on to any
colleagues who may be interested. We hope to see you there.
The programme includes these leading speakers:
* Martin Dodge, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of
Environment and Development, at the University of Manchester and one of
the originators of the Atlas of Cyberspaces. Martin will talk about the
Atlas and also about code/space, new conceptual tools for understanding
the relationship between software, technology, space and everyday activities
* Lisa Evans, writer, researcher and programmer at the Guardian working
closely with the Guardian Datablog and Guardian Graphics teams. She will
be joining the Open Knowledge Foundation in mid October this year. Lisa
will talk about open data journalism at the Guardian, different
interpretations of openness and what the Guardian team is are doing to
involve their audience and allow people to replicate and verify what
they do.
* Marianne Lykke, Professor in the Department of Communication and
Psychology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. Marianne will talk
about Touch technologies as tools for analysis and structuring of concepts.
* Conrad Taylor, who has been involved practically in Information
Design, cartography and computer graphics for 25+ years. He currently
coordinates a discussion list on knowledge, information and data
management (KIDMM). Conrad will talk about A grammar for graphics?
Visual methods for revealing the shape and structure of knowledge and
data. Many of the ideas in this presentation will draw on the work of
Yuri Engelhardt. (Conrad formerly assisted Yuri and Karel van der Waarde
in running the InfoDesign-Cafe list.)
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 (see slides and recordings at
http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm) as well as its very successful second
biennial conference (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm) last year.
Leonard Will
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Willpower Information (Partners: Dr Leonard D Will, Sheena E Will)
Information Management Consultants Tel: +44 (0)20 8372 0092
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