[Sigcr-l] ISKO 2008 Conference - Montréal, 5-8 August 2008

[Joseph Tennis]

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ISKO 2008 Conference - Montréal, 5-8 August 2008.

10th biennial ISKO Conference
Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization

*** EARLY BIRD registration is now ON until April 1st 2008. Please register through our website: http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko2008/ ***

More information about the OCLC/ISKO-NA preconference workshop (on August 5th) will be available soon.

The 10th biennial International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) is organised and hosted by the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal.

Time and Place of ISKO 2008: Tuesday 5 to Friday 8 of August 2008, at the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada).

Conference Theme: Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization.
The proposed research topics for this edition include:
- Epistemological Foundations in KO
- Models and Methods
- Systems and Tools
- Ethics
- KO for Libraries, Archives, and Museums - Non-Textual Materials - KO in Multilingual Environments - Users and Social Context - Discourse Communities and KO - KO for Information Management and Retrieval - Evaluation


Conference programme (draft) is available on the website: http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko2008/documents/programme.pdf


Conference Chair
Dr. Clément Arsenault, Associate Professor, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information.
Université de Montréal, Canada.
E-mail: clement.arsenault at umontreal.ca

Programme Chair
Dr. Joseph T. Tennis, Assistant Professor, The Information School of the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
E-mail: jtennis at u.washington.edu

Poster Session Chair
Dr. Michèle Hudon, Associate Professor,
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information.
Université de Montréal, Canada.
E-mail: michele.hudon at umontreal.ca


Contact: isko2008 at gmail.com