[Sigia-l] ISKO UK Biennial Conference 8/9 July: “Knowledge Organization – Pushing the Boundaries”

[Leonard Will]

ISKO UK Biennial Conference 8/9 July: “Knowledge Organization – Pushing 
the Boundaries”

Dear Colleagues,
Registration has now opened for our ISKO UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE – 8/9 
July 2013, London.

Book by April 30th for Early Bird rates

The theme is: *Knowledge Organization - Pushing the Boundaries*

Knowledge Organization (KO) is not just a fascinating research domain to 
attract our foremost thinkers; it also presents practical challenges to 
each of us as individuals, sorting out the files on our desktops 
physical and virtual, searching for inspiration via the Internet, or 
participating in the fora of social media. But there’s a paradox: while 
KO practices permeate society, the name “Knowledge Organization” is 
known only to a few. Invisible boundaries separate KO researchers from 
the practitioners who could benefit from their findings, and also come 
between distinct fields of application such as records management, web 
design, librarianship, information retrieval, etc.

This conference aims to explore such boundaries, challenge them and 
advance our thinking into new territory. It will be the third biennial 
conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO. Practitioners as well as 
theoreticians are invited to attend and participate, along with 
consultants, researchers, teachers and students. There will be a mix of 
short and longer presentations, as well as a display of posters. The 
papers submitted will be peer-reviewed and published electronically on 
this website, together with slides and audio recordings.

On our website at <http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/index.htm> you can 
find more details, including a provisional programme. 33 Presentations 
are scheduled, including keynote addresses from leading lights Patrick 
Lambe and Martin White, and an invited paper from visualization 
visionary Manuel Lima. Two of the sessions will be co-organized by our 
sister associations, UKeiG and LIRG respectively. We're expecting a good 
number of posters too, and will be encouraging the vendors of relevant 
software applications, products and services to support the conference 
by exhibiting their wares.

Registration fees for the two-day event are still the same as for our 
2011 conference, just

£180 (full price)
£150 (ISKO members)
£150 pounds (early-bird rate, until 30 April)
£130 pounds (early-bird rate for ISKO members)

Members of UKeiG and/or LIRG will be entitled to the same rates as ISKO 
members.

The electronic proceedings of our first and second biennial conferences 
are available at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/proceedings.htm and 
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/programme.htm respectively. The 2013 
event will be bigger and better, and we hope you will be able to come 
and enjoy it.

Conference hashtag #ISKOUK2013

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 as well as its very successful previous conferences in 
2009 and 2011.


-- 
Leonard Will