[Sigia-l] Call for Papers

[Kate Simpson]

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======================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================

CONTENT ARCHITECTURE: EXPLOITING AND MANAGING DIVERSE RESOURCES
London, 22-23 June 2009

Biennial Conference of the British Chapter of the International  
Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK)

ISKO UK 2009 conference "Content Architecture: Exploiting and  
Managing Diverse Resources" will provide a rare opportunity for  
researchers, practitioners and innovators from all sectors to share  
ideas on the opportunities and challenges implicit in the  
digitization and networking of diverse information resources. The  
Conference will address issues in the organization and integration of  
text, images, data and voice - multimedia and multilingual.

Over the past year ISKO UK (http://www.iskouk.org/) has attracted  
large and lively audiences of content and information architects,  
website developers, knowledge engineers, information managers and  
many others to its afternoon meeting series (http://www.iskouk.org/ 
events.htm). The conference aims to extend this wide audience to  
ensure that all aspects of knowledge organization are represented.

THEMES of the 2009 Conference include:
•	semantic interoperability across networked resources
•	metadata models and architecture
•	retrieval of still and/or moving images
•	audio retrieval
•	user enhancement (via tagging, feedback, etc.) of content
•	multilingual access to mixed resources
•	integrated combinations of media and/or content types

PAPERS ON THE CONFERENCE THEMES ARE INVITED from the academic and  
practitioner communities and may present research, case studies or  
even success stories! Contributions may be full length (5-10,000  
words) or brief (2-4,000 words). Proposals for posters may be  
submitted too. Full presentations will be allowed 40 minutes,  
including at least 5 minutes for questions, while brief presentations  
should occupy a total of 20 minutes. As well as being available  
online to coincide with the Conference, the Proceedings will be  
published afterwards in a leading peer-reviewed journal.

SUBMISSION: To read more about the conference and to submit your  
abstract, go to the conference website http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/ 
index.htm.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of Abstracts:	1 December 2008
Notification of acceptance:	1 February 2009
Submission of full papers:	1 May 2009

CONTACT: conference2009 at iskouk.org

ABOUT THE ORGANIZER: ISKO UK 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. The  
conference organizing team is closely supported by leading thinkers  
and practitioners in the knowledge organization arena.

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