[sigCR] Booking time running out for ISKO UK Biennial conference, 13-14 July, London "Knowledge Organization - Making a difference- The impact of knowledge organization on society, scholarship and progress".

[Leonard Will]

Dear Colleagues,
Its just a month until the nextISKO UK conference 
<http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference> 
in London.  With the theme "*Knowledge organization making a 
difference-* *The impact of knowledge organization on society, 
scholarship and progress*" the conference aims to expands our horizons 
by catering 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 and network at this intimate, lively,**and engaging event.

*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*, always 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*, founder and Principal of 
Taxonomy Strategies, will talk about how global classification systems 
have inspired content organization on the Web. He’ll address the big 
questions about classification that come up again and again in his work 
with many different organizations.

·“Using Knowledge Organization Systems requires proper tools to manage 
them” is the declaration of *Johannes Keizer* and *Caterina Caracciolo* 
from the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), 
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.

See more about these and many other eminent speakers in the full 
provisional programme at 
http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference, 
where you can also find details about the 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. Priced 
at just 180 pounds for members and students, and 210 pounds for 
non-members, this two-day event offers exceptional value for money. 
Please don’t delay in booking your place!

We look forward to your participation, and do please let any interested 
colleagues know that time is running out.

(With apologies for cross-posting)

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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. 


Best regards
Leonard Will, ISKO UK

#ISKOUK2015

www.iskouk.org <http://www.iskouk.org>