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ISKO logo 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

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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