[Sigcr-l] ISKO UK Biennial Conference 4th-5th July 2011 – Registration open until June 24th

[Leonard Will]

*International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) - UK Chapter*

We hope you can join us at University College London 
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/> on 4th-5th July for the second biennial ISKO UK 
Conference <http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm>, which honours the 
life and achievements of Brian C Vickery, a pioneer in our field. 
Registration is open until June 24th. You can find out more details of 
the event and register via “Registration” on the conference site 
<http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm>.

The theme of the conference will be /*Facets of Knowledge 
Organization*/, and there will be a varied programmewith 28 
presentations as well as seven posters. Day One includes a special 
session co-organized by our colleagues in the European network of *NKOS 
<http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/> (Networked Knowledge Organization 
Systems/Services)*. The topic, “/What role can KOS play in information 
retrieval applications?/” was inspired by Brian Vickery’s longstanding 
interest in information retrieval. On the second day we shall hear from 
several other speakers who have drawn on Vickery’s legacy.

This year the Proceedings will be published and sent to all those 
attending the Conference, including not only the presented papers, but 
also a selection of papers 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 available on the website.

Please let any interested colleagues know about this meeting. We look 
forward to welcoming you and them to an enjoyable and important 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 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

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