ISKO UK Annual General Meeting
The ISKO UK AGM will be held at 13:00 on 29th March, at the British Computer Society London Office, 5 Southampton Street, London, immediately before the “On Location” meeting on organizing and using geospatial information. Reports and accounts for 2011 are available in the members' section of this web site.
ISKO UK 2011 conference proceedings published
The proceedings of the ISKO UK second biennial conference, 2011: Facets of knowledge organization have now been published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited as an attractive hardbound volume incorporating reprints of some of Vickery's key writings and a comprehensive bibliography. Copies have been sent to all the participants in the conference.
Publication details and a synopsis are on the publishers' web page.
Facets of knowledge organization : proceedings of the ISKO UK Second Biennial Conference, 4th-5th July 2011, London / edited by Alan Gilchrist, Judi Vernau. – Bingley : Emerald, 2011. – xix,416p. ; 23cm. – ISBN: 978-1-78025-614-0 : £77.95.
ISKO UK Strategic Framework
The ISKO UK Executive Committee have recently drafted a Strategic Framework to guide our actions in the coming three years. The document may be downloaded from here and comments and suggestions are invited.
ISKO UK November Event
ISKO UK’s latest event, a meeting entitled “Interoperability: joining up knowledge and information in the health sector”, took place at the King’s Fund, London, on 1st November 2011.Online Information 2011
This year's Online Information exhibition and conference is being held on 29 Nov. - 1 Dec. in the National Hall, Olympia, London. ISKO members can benefit from a special conference discount of 25% if booking before 28 Oct 2011 or a 15% discount after that date. To book visit Online Information 2011.
UKeiG names Professor Alan Smeaton as the 2011 Tony Kent Strix Award winner
UKeiG – the UK eInformation Group of CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals – is delighted to announce this year’s winner of the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award.
Professor Alan Smeaton of the School of Computing, Dublin City University is a worthy winner of this prestigious award with sustained contributions to the field of natural language processing techniques for textual information retrieval as well as to the indexing and retrieval of image, audio and video data. He now leads a research team at the University of 40 researchers working in areas including life-logging, video analysis, summarization and search, data aggregation in environmental sensor networks, collaborative search techniques, data fusion from sensor networks and using sensors in media applications. He was founding director for the Centre for Digital Video Processing, a world-leading research centre for video processing and retrieval. Professor Smeaton was also the founding coordinator of TRECVid, which started as an independent evaluation exercise of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) in 2001 – an initiative that has clearly been instrumental to the progress of the field of digital video retrieval.
The presentation of the ‘Owl’ Trophy and a certificate will take place on Monday 24th October at the Enterprise Search Europe event at the Hilton London Olympia. Martin White (UKeiG Chair), Doug Veal (Chair of the Strix Award Panel) and David Hawking, the Keynote Speaker for the opening day, will preside over the presentation. They will be joined by representatives of the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award’s two sponsors: ASLIB and the Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Further information about the award, as well as a list of winners, can be found at www.ukeig.org.uk/awards.
Classification
and Ontology, The Hague, 19-20 September, 2011
The third biennial conference in a series of UDC Seminars
organized by the UDC Consortium is titled Classification & Ontology
and is hosted by The National Library of the Netherlands.
Ontology-like representations of classifications are
recognized as
potentially important facilitators in creating a web of linked data
(the Semantic Web). The objective of the conference is to promote
collaboration and exchange of expertise between different fields
dealing with knowledge classifications: bibliographic, web and AI.
To read more and to register, please visit the event's
website.
117 people attended the ISKO-UK conference on 4-5 July, a great networking opportunity for a mix of researchers, commercial providers and practitioners interested in “Facets of Knowledge Organization”. Abstracts, full papers and PowerPoint files are already available for downloading and audio recordings will be added to the event web page in the next few weeks. The event was held in memory of Brian C Vickery, who died in 2009 at the age of 91, leaving a lifetime of inspiration to the LIS profession. Read Fran Alexander’s full review on the ISKO-UK blog.
The event following ISKO
UK's Annual General Meeting on April 14th, 2011 - Public Access to Information? -
was one of the most successful yet. Organised jointly with TiPS,
it attracted over 100 registrants, most of whom turned up on the day.
All four speakers delivered highly engaging presentations which
provoked not only frequent questions during each session, but also
resulted in a lively panel session at the end.
For a full account of each of the presentations, see the report on the ISKO UK blog.
The ISKO UK event "Legal Know-How: Organization & Semantic Analysis" held on 10 November 2010 attracted over 80 participants and offered an interesting selection of talks from the field of legal information. Presentation slides are now available on the event website and audio recordings will be uploaded as soon as they have been processed. Read about the event in Fran Alexander's review.
"Facets of Knowledge Organization", our second biennial conference, will take place on 4-5 July 2011. It will honour the life and achievements of Brian C Vickery, who sadly died last year, but has left us much to celebrate and build upon during the conference. To make the most of the event, please respond to our Call for Papers.
ISKO UK is sorry to announce the death of Jack Mills, on 9
July 2010, at his home in London, at the age of 91. Jack had a long and
distinguished career as a professional librarian, academic, teacher and
researcher, and, for the last 40 years, as Editor of the Bliss
Bibliographic Classification, Second Edition (BC2). In recent years his
work had been marked by the award of an Honorary Fellowship of CILIP,
and the Tony Keny Strix award for services to information retrieval. He
was also honoured by the (then) American Society for Information
Science as one of a handful of British information professionals
nominated as 'Pioneers
of Information Science'.
His death was unexpected and peaceful, sitting in his garden at home,
and, as usual, he had been working on BC2 during the day. A fuller
tribute will appear here, and in Knowledge Organization.
A date to mark in your calendar: ISKO UK is organizing a one-day seminar on Linked Data on 14th September. Ten speakers from five countries will discuss and illustrate the application of linked data in various domains. The preliminary programme and booking form are available at the event's website.
Seeing is Believing: New Technologies for Cultural Heritage, ISKO UK event that took place on 9th June 2010 at University College London. This was yet another successful meeting attended by over 90 participants. The afternoon offered a fascinating and mutually complementary suite of talks that covered topics ranging from how to capture 3D representations of precious artefacts in order to improve access to mass audiences without the damage caused by physical handling, to how crowdsourcing can harness the enthusiasm of online communities to improve collections, speed digitisation, and enhance metadata. A range of questions about privacy, community, and how we relate to both the most precious and the most trivial things in our lives was prompted by the description of the Tales of Things project, which uses the geolocatory power of RFID and QR codes to allow people to add their memories to objects via the website. This event was organized in cooperation with the UCL Department for Information Studies and refreshment was sponsored by Gallery Systems. Outputs are available on the event page.
“On Location”:
geospatial information event
29th March
Booking now open
| 29th March 2012 | On Location: organizing and using geospatial information - London |
| July 2012 | “I think, therefore I classify”: A full day, to consider how and why we categorize objects and ideas, and review how we teach and learn classification - London |
| 4th September 2012 | Afternoon meeting: The Shape of Knowledge: improving the visual representation of how information and knowledge is organized |
| October or November 2012 | Organizing still/moving images. Programme to be developed; suggestions welcome. |
Content of the last issues of the Knowledge Organization journal: 33(2006)1, 33(2006)2, and Vol. 33(2006) No 3.
Online construction of alphabetic classaurus: a vocabulary control and indexing tool, by F. J. Devadason (the online version of the article published in Processing and Management, Vol. 21(1985); No.1; p 11-26.)
An introduction to chain indexing Web edition of a programmed text, by T.D. Wilson
Subject Indexing Language: Its Theory and Practice by Bhattacharyya
Prolegomena to Library Classification (1967) and other books by S.R. Ranganathan in dLIST open archive...