[Sigcr-l] Registration open - ISKO UK 2009 Conference - Content Architecture, London, 22-23 June 2009

[Aida Slavic]

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SUBJECT: REGISTRATION OPEN: ISKO UK 2009 Conference - Content Architecture, 
London, 22-23 June 2009

Registration is now open for "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing 
Diverse Resources", the first biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO 
(International Society for Knowledge Organization). It will be held in London on 
22-23 June 2009.

Come to this exciting Conference to hear about and discuss the opportunities 
arising from the growing digitization and networking of information resources. 
It will be a bridge-building event, designed to promote dialogue between 
practitioners and researchers from diverse communities.

The preliminary programme is now on the conference website at 
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/programme.htm. We have 28 presentations, with 
speakers from ten countries. Topics include semantic interoperability, image 
retrieval, multimedia challenges, mapping and modelling.

As keynote speakers we have:
- Professor David Crystal, the renowned author, linguist and broadcaster, 
talking about semantic targeting;
- Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, on the 
subject of e-Research and New Challenges in Knowledge Structuring

To take advantage of the early bird discount, register as soon as you can on the 
conference site at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/index.htm.

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