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 Summer 2022 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. 47. Issue 8 mailed to ISKO members (volumes >3 YO OA at Nomos eLibrary)
STW Thesaurus and Citation analysis (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
Knowledge organization literature 2020 Issue 3-4
conference outputs Wissensorganisation und Bibliographische Daten (WikiCite. 2020) [video]
International ISKO Conference. 2020
KOS LRM elements set as RDF
report Table of Mappings: DDC 001-999 to Table 3C--3 Arts and literature dealing with specific themes and subjects
report IFLA Metadata Newsletter. 6. 2
paper L'algoritmo di John Locke e i commonplace books (JLIS.it)
paper The model construction of KOS in terminography: taking Chinese terminology as an example (ICELAIC. 2020)
paper IKOS Bulletin. 2. 3
paper Aboutness and conceptual analysis: a review (CCQ)
book Modélisation ontologique & psychologies: une influence réciproque

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

2021-01-21	online	KO-ED. Information foraging in knowledge organisations
2021-01-25/29	online	Extraction et gestion des connaissances. 21
2021-01-28	online	KO-ED. Critical description and evaluation of classification schemes
2021-02-04	online	KO-ED. Towards interoperability of KOS vocabularies
2021-02-08/12	Florence	Bibliographic control in the digital ecosystem
2021-02-11	online	KO-ED. Automatic subject indexing and evaluation: an introduction
2021-02-18	online	KO-ED. Automated indexing: implementation case studies
2021-02-22/26	online	Semantic techniques and technologies for data and knowledge representation
2021-02-25	online	KO-ED. Some reflections on genre and KO
2021-03-01/03	London	Taxonomy Boot Camp London. 2021
2021-03-06/07	online	Language Creation Conference. 2021
2021-03-28/04-01	Lucca	European Conference on Information Retrieval. 43
2021-05-07/08	Vienna	European DDC Users Group Meeting. 2021
2021-05-14	Cremona	Italian ISKO Meeting. 10
2021-06-03/04	Chambéry	TOTh: Terminologie & ontologie: théories et applications. 15
2021-06-06/10	Hersonissos	European Semantic Web Conference. 2021
2021-06-16/18	Montpellier	Penser les categories de pensée. 2: Les titres
2021-07-04/10	Bertinoro	International Semantic Web Conference. 2021
2021-07-12/16	online	UK ISKO Conference. 7: KO in exceptional times
2021-08-00	online	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 86
2021-08-00	Bangkok	Wikimania. 2021
2021-09-06/09	Amsterdam	SEMANTiCS: International Conference on Semantic Systems. 17
2021-09-13/16	Bolzano	Formal Ontology in Information Systems. 2020
2021-09-13/17	online	Theory and practice of digital libraries. 25
2021-10-00	Amiens	French ISKO Conference. 13
2021-11-25/26	Lisbon	Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 5
2022-00-00	Dublin	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 87
2022-07-00	Aalborg	International ISKO Conference. 17
2023-00-00	Lyon	French ISKO Conference. 14
2023-08-00	Rotterdam	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 88