I S K O

This is the official website for ISKO – the premier international scholarly society devoted to the theory and practice of knowledge organization.

What's new?

ISKO 2008.

The Tenth International ISKO Conference will be held in Montréal, Canada, August 5-8, 2008. The theme will be "Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization," and the conference chair is Clément Arsenault. Full details are available at the conference website, including a draft conference program.

Latest issue of Knowledge Organization.

Volume 35, no. 1 (2008) of the official quarterly journal of ISKO was mailed to subscribers on May 5, 2008. Volume 35, no. 2/3 (2008) is at press.

Ninth Congress of ISKO-España.

The Ninth Congress of the Spanish ISKO Chapter will be held in Valencia, Spain, March 11-13, 2009. The theme will be "New perspectives for the organisation and dissemination of knowledge." More details are available at the congress website. The deadline for submission of abstracts of papers is July 1, 2008.

Twelfth Conference of the German ISKO Chapter.

The Twelfth Conference of the German ISKO Chapter will be held in Bonn, Germany, at the end of 2009. The theme will be "Knowledge - Science - Organization." More details will appear at the German chapter's conference website.

ISKO 2010.

The Eleventh International ISKO Conference will be held in Rome, Italy, February 2010. The conference chair is Fulvio Mazzocchi. More details are available at the conference website.

Recent highlights

Eleventh Conference of the German ISKO Chapter.

The Eleventh Conference of the German ISKO Chapter was held in Konstanz, Germany, February 20-22, 2008. Full details are available at the conference website.

IKONE-2007.

The first International Conference on the Future of Knowledge Organization in the Networked Environment, organized by the Documentation Research & Training Centre at the Indian Statistical Institute in association with ISKO, was held in Bangalore, India, September 3-5, 2007. Full details are available at the conference website.

Third Meeting of ISKO-Italia.

The Third Meeting of the Italian ISKO Chapter, in association with the Biblioteca di Ateneo of the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UniMIB), was held in Milan, Italy, June 22, 2007. Full details are available at the meeting website.

NASKO and ISKO-NA.

The North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO) was held in Toronto, Canada, June 14-15, 2007. The symposium was hosted by the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, and the chair of the planning committee was Richard P. Smiraglia. The symposium hosted a paper session on the state of the art of knowledge organization research (papers are available on dLIST here), and an organizational meeting for the new North American chapter of ISKO (ISKO-NA). Full details are available at ISKO-NA's website.

New ISKO-UK chapter.

A new ISKO chapter has been formed in the United Kingdom. The first open meeting and constitutional session of ISKO-UK was held in London, England, March 26, 2007, and Vanda Broughton was elected as chairperson. Forthcoming events are listed on the ISKO-UK website.

New ISKO president.

María J. López-Huertas has been elected as president of ISKO (2006-2010). Her election statement is available here. Other newly elected members of the Executive Board and Scientific Advisory Council are listed on the ISKO people page.