[Sigcr-l] ISKO UK Biennial Conference 4th-5th July 2011 – Early Bird registration

[Leonard Will]

*ISKO UK Biennial Conference 4th-5th July 2011 – Early Bird registration *

Early Bird registration for the ISKO UK 2011 Conference 
<http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm> has now opened, with reduced 
fees for bookings completed on or before Friday 29th April. After that 
date the standard fees will be payable. You can find out more details of 
the event and register via “Registration” on the conference site.

This multi-faceted conference honours the life and achievements of Brian 
C Vickery, a pioneer in our field. The venue is the Roberts building 
University College London, with the theme */Facets of Knowledge 
Organization/*. Places are limited and this will be an intimate, lively 
and engaging event.

It will include 25 first-class presentations, reflecting not just 
current research but also the challenges of turning R&D results into 
practice.

10 posters will enliven the networking breaks. Once again, we have 
attracted speakers from several countries as well the UK, and are 
delighted to welcome them to the Conference. Brian Vickery would have 
been thrilled with the range on offer, and with the rich mix of speakers 
giving their papers on topics from faceted classification to tagging 
behaviour and the exploitation of linked data at the BBC. The revival of 
Jason Farradane’s work on relational indexing would have caught his 
attention too.

This year the Proceedings will be published and sent to all those 
attending the Conference, including not only the presented papers, but a 
selection of papers either by, or about, Brian Vickery.

Our keynote speakers include Stephen Robertson, who, after leaving the 
Aslib Research Department under Brian Vickery, spent many years leading 
the Centre for Interactive Systems at City University and is now a 
full-time researcher at the Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge; 
and Amanda Spink, recently appointed to the Chair in Information Science 
at Loughborough University, moving from the School of Information 
Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Details of the programme are 
now being finalised and will be published on the website shortly.

It is a pleasure also to include a session selected and hosted by our 
colleagues in NKOS (Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services). 
Of the other sessions shortly to be announced, there will be at least 
one dedicated to an appreciation of Vickery’s legacy.

We look forward to your participation in this event.

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 
<http://www.iskouk.org/> has been attracting lively and steadily growing 
audiences to its afternoon meeting series 
<http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm> as well as its very successful first 
conference in 2009 <http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/proceedings.htm>.

-- 
Leonard Will