I S K O
International Society for Knowledge Organization
This is the official website for ISKO – the premier international scholarly society devoted to the theory and practice of knowledge organization, bringing together professionals from different disciplines such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science, as well as special domains such as health informatics. ISKO's world-wide reach is supported through its regional Chapters.
ISKO hosts an international conference in even-numbered years. It last met in Wuhan, China, in March of 2024 and will meet again in 2026 in Los Angeles, USA. Proceedings of international conferences are listed here. In odd-numbered years most of ISKO's regional chapters host conferences; many of these are multilingual.
ISKO publishes the journal Knowledge Organization eight times a year. ISKO also is publishing an online encyclopedia of knowledge organization. We provide a database of KO literature and link to a repository of KO documents, to BARTOC KO registry and to other organizations of interest to KO scholars.
News
- The new Board of Directors has taken office
- Hanne Albrechtsen, the second ISKO president, died on October 5
- H. Peter Ohly, former secretary and president, has been appointed honorary member of ISKO.
Recently published (older)
Knowledge organization. 51. Issue 7 now available to ISKO members (volumes >3 years old OA)
Subject analysis and Bibliography (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
KM World. [Taxonomies, AI...]
KOSs and provenance: experiences and challenges (ASIS&T)
Creating Maawn Doobiigeng: a new classification system for a tribal library (YouTube)
Implementing the Dewey 220-299 optional arrangement (YouTube)
Election history and state ordering: data visualization
S. Kuppuswami Sastri's influence on Ranganathan's epistemology
Some core concepts of domain analysis (EQ)
AI-assisted classification of library resources: the case of Claude AI (LPP)
Learning takes more than one way of knowing (LQ)
Alle origini della UDC: la corrispondenza fra Otlet e Dewey
Coming KO events (ISKO only — by year/country)
| 2024-12-11/13 |  | London | Connected data. 2024 |
| 2025-00-00 | | online |  UK ISKO Conference. 8 |
| 2025-03-12 | | online | Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp. 2025. 1 |
| 2025-03-19 |  | Athens | Metadata standards matter |
| 2025-04-10/11 |  | Cosenza | Italian ISKO Meeting. 12 |
| 2025-04-29/05-03 |  | Philadelphia | Information Architecture Conference. 2025 |
| 2025-06-02/05 | | Glasgow | CoLIS: IC Conceptions of library and information science. 12 |
| 2025-06-16/20 |  | Vienna | IC on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. 37 |
| 2025-06-18 | | online | Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp. 2025. 2 |
| 2025-06-19/20 | | Thessaloniki | Multilingual digital terminology today. 4 |
| 2025-06-19/20 | | Portland | North American Symposium on KO. 10 |
| 2025-09-04/05 | | online | Formal ontology in information systems. 15.1 |
| 2025-09-08/12 | | Catania | Formal ontology in information systems. 15.2 |
| 2025-10-08 | | online | Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp. 2025. 3 |
| 2025-11-13/14 |  | Porto | Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 7 |
| 2026-06-00 | | Los Angeles | International ISKO Conference. 19 |
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