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, 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 Porto, Portugal in July of 2018 and will meet again in July 2020 in Aalborg, Denmark. 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.

Recently published (older)

KO journal Knowledge organization. 46. Issue 6 mailed to ISKO members (issues >3 YO OA at Nomos eLibrary)
Mathematics in classification systems and S. R. Ranganathan (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
Knowledge organization literature 2019 Issue 2
conference outputs DCMI NKOS Workshop
French ISKO Conference. 12
KOS Integrative Levels Classification as SKOS
report Organizing ideas: a podcast about how libraries and archives are never neutral (Twitter)
report Research and applications of KOSs at National Science Library, China [video]
paper Taxa hold little information about organisms: some inferential problems in biological systematics (HPLS)
paper A sustainable and OA KO model to preserve cultural heritage and language diversity (Information)
paper Measuring the value of professional indexing (IR)
paper Minding the gap: investigating the alignment of [KO] research and practice (IR)
book Users's guide to Sears List of Subject Headings, 2nd ed.

Coming KO events (ISKO only — by country — 2019 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 '12 '11 '10 '09 '08 '07)

2019-11-14/16	Coimbatore	Transforming academic libraries: vision 2030
2019-11-25	Hamburg	Automated subject indexing with Annif
2019-11-25/27	Hamburg	Semantic Web in libraries. 11
2019-11-28	London	The history and future of art classification
2019-11-29	Dublin	TOTh Workshop. 2019: Term formation
2019-12-02/04	Yaoundé	Conference de recherche en informatique. 2019
2019-12-12/14	Rourkela	International Conference on Next Generation Libraries. 2019
2019-12-12/15	Kolkata	Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation. 11
2020-01-05/08	Daejeon	International Conference on Multimedia Modeling. 26
2020-01-20/21	Berlin	Qurator: Conference on Digital Curation Technologies. 2020
2020-02-03/04	Los Angeles	International Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums Summit. 5
2020-02-06/08	Tunis	Organization of knowledge and advanced technologies
2020-03-19/22	Boston	AAS. 2020. Panel: Collecting and organizing knowledge in China: past and present
2020-07-05/11	Bertinoro	International Semantic Web Conference. 2020
2020-07-06/09	Aalborg	International ISKO Conference. 16
2020-08-15/21	Dublin	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 86
2020-09-19/25	Genève	CIDOC Conference. 2020
2020-09-28/10-02	Pretoria	Information Behaviour Conference
2021-00-00	Amiens	French ISKO Conference. 13
2021-07-00	Lisbon	Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 5
2021-08-19/26	Rotterdam	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 87
2022-08-13/19	Auckland	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 88
2023-00-00	Lyon	French ISKO Conference. 14

I S K O

International Society for Knowledge Organization

Recently published (older)

Coming KO events (ISKO only — by country — 2019 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 '12 '11 '10 '09 '08 '07)