[sigCR] ISKO UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE – 13/14 July 2015 - Early Bird discounts end 30th April

[Leonard Will]

Dear colleagues,

Don't forget 30th April is the deadline for early bird discounts on:

*Knowledge Organization – Making a difference. **ISKO UK BIENNIAL 
CONFERENCE – 13/14 July 2015, London *

Details at: 
http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference

Registration at: https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/

This conference aims to explore, justify and proclaim the continuing 
demand for Knowledge Organization (KO). It will be a showcase for R & D 
that offers benefits for cultural activities and economic development, 
and an opportunity to consider the impact that KO has had, is having and 
will have.

*Who should attend*

This conference caters amply for practitioners alongside theoreticians, 
including consultants, researchers, teachers and students. Knowledge 
Organization is useful to systems designers as well as information 
managers, with applications in areas as diverse as web design, records 
management, digital libraries and asset management, network management, 
etc. Sharing ideas is the way to advance your own thinking – do come and 
join the discussions!

*Some highlights*

·As Keynote speakers we have*Alan Gilchrist* and *Dagobert Soergel*, 
both influential writers and speakers in our field. While Gilchrist 
reflects on the advances already achieved through KO, Soergel looks to a 
future in which KO structures enable connections, inferencing, 
understanding and exploiting information.

·*Patrick Lambe*, already a popular speaker at our past conferences, 
returns to urge a proactive role for KO professionals in designing and 
developing networked knowledge environments. He will also facilitate an 
*interactive fishbowl session* for all of us to discuss what we can do 
in the workplace to implement KO effectively and raise its profile. **

·Joining us from the USA,*Joseph Busch* will share his extensive 
consultancy experience in applying classification principles both 
in-house and on the Web.

·“Using Knowledge Organization Systems requires proper tools to manage 
them” is the declaration of *Johannes Keizer* and *Caterina Caracciolo* 
from the FAO , where the AGRIS database has evolved to become a 
KOS-based Linked Open Data web application underpinned by VocBench, a 
state of the art editor for KOS enabling automatic alignment of 
vocabularies.

There are many more speakers in the provisional programme at 
http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference, 
where you can also find details such as venue and registration fees. To 
make a booking you will need to go to 
https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/ and set up a user account. The 
early bird discount applies until 30^th April, so don’t delay in booking 
your place!

On behalf of ISKO UK, I look forward to seeing you there,
Leonard Will
ISKO UK
www.iskouk.org

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More background*

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with a 
mission to promote the theory and practice of organizing knowledge and 
information. The emphasis in our UK Chapter is on building bridges 
between the research and practitioner communities, for example at our 
regular and very popular afternoon meetings. You can see past and future 
events at Our Events <http://www.iskouk.org/events>, together with 
slides and sound recordings for most presentations. The proceedings 
(including slides, papers and audio) of our previous biennial 
conferences are available there too; see for example 
http://www.iskouk.org/content/isko-uk-conference-2013-knowledge-organization-pushing-boundaries.
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